Bitter Medicine
- ISBN-10
- 0140113053
- ISBN-13
- 9780140113051
- Series
- Bitter Medicine
- Category
- Detective and mystery stories
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Author
- Sara Paretsky
Description
In this novel, Vic Warshawski, heroine of Indemnity Only, Deadlock and Killing Orders, investigates Chicago's private hospital system. Through her friend Lotty Herschel, a top obstetrician who runs a clinic in a poor neighbourhood, Vic takes an interest in Consuela, 16 years old and pregnant.
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