The fifth gripping novel in the Womens Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yukis mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. Shes had a stroke and Yuki starts to panic. She is rushed to the San Francisco Medical Center and admitted to the ICU. Over drinks that evening at Susies, with her friends in the Womens Murder Club, Lindsay learns of a huge malpractice suit against the San Francisco Medical Center. In the last few years, dozens of patients who were admitted to the emergency room seemed to recover and then died suspicious deaths. Is Yukis mother safe? In a place where the lives of patients are quite literally in others hands, will Lindsay and her friends be able to establish who they can trust?