In the Name of Mercy — Nicholas Delbanco

DR. PETER JULIUS believes a physician should relieve pain, not prolong it. When his cancer-stricken wife begged him to end her misery, he respected her wishes. Afterward, Peter took a post in a hospice and continued his new mission: to help the terminally ill end their lives with dignity. But here the death rate of his patients begins to soar. People talk, the media pounces, and hate mails christens him the Angel of Death. As suspicion casts its ugly shadow on others, the practice of humane medicine turns sinister. Soon even the healthy are in danger, for no one is immune to treachery … or murder.