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A physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes' sad job of checking for vital signs or pronouncing death. Hughes works alongside detectives DI Miller and DS Jeffries, slowly cataloguing some dozen deaths from a boat suspected to have capsized during an illegal crossing from France to England. But one victim st...

Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth. When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation has gone terribly wrong, leading to an unintended climax to his life. It is only after another lawyer is found dead in his former boss's pool that Dr Callie Hughes begins to suspect there is more to the deat...

An intrepid medic tracks a killer looking for the ultimate thrill. Police doctor Callie Hughes is having doubts about her life on the south coast after her boyfriend's move to Belfast, when a mysterious death draws her once again into a criminal investigation. A woman is found dead in a holiday let. There are no signs of sexual assault but her bruised neck and protruding tongue suggest foul play. Callie notes a small mark on the woman's pa...

A wily doctor goes out on a limb to find a killer Two elderly people passing is an unremarkable occurrence in the British seaside town of Hastings, and certainly not unusual for police doctor and medical examiner Callie Hughes. But what bothers her inquisitive nature is that both individuals had recently packed a suitcase. Not the obvious actions of those with one foot in the grave. Exploring further, Callie's colleagues find irregulari...

A police doctor tries to extricate herself from a tricky situation in this gripping medical thriller When human remains are discovered in the garden of a house in the seaside town of Hastings, Dr Callie Hughes can't resist trying to dig up the truth. However, her amateur sleuthing is put on the backburner when her car is vandalised. She seems to have a stalker, and they are becoming increasingly intent on terrorising her. DI Steve Miller...

When a local woman is killed, police indifference leads a doctor to begin her own investigation It is not unusual for Callie Hughes to see a dead body. As a part-time police doctor, she has seen more than most. And it was hardly unusual for her to be called in to a reported drugs overdose. Her work in Hastings has led her to see a fair few of those. But the corpse of the young woman that she is now examining isn't surrounded by the typical...

Medical crime fiction by Candy Denman, Britain's answer to Patricia Cornwell When police doctor Callie Hughes is called to a crime scene, pronouncing death isn't difficult. More difficult will be determining the age and sex of the victim. The charred body found inside a burned-out car is so badly damaged, it will be a challenge for forensics to identify. The question facing the police will be whether this was an unfortunate accident or fou...

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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General