\n A superior entry in the night-on-the-nightmare-ward genre.\n <\/p>\n
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A medical student is assigned an overnight shift to observe a Long Island hospital\u2019s psychiatric ward and help with emergencies. You\u2019d never guess what happens next.<\/p>\n
Amy Brenner isn\u2019t even interested in psychiatry, the one medical specialty she\u2019s never considered for her own career. Nor is she interested any more in Cameron Berger, the classmate who ended their relationship so that he could spend more time studying, and she\u2019s not pleased to learn that he\u2019s switched his rotation with another student so he can spend some of the next 13 hours persuading Amy to rekindle their romance. Predictably, Cam will be the least of Amy\u2019s troubles. Apart from Dr. Richard Beck and nurse Ramona Dutton, everyone else on Ward D is much more dangerous, from elderly Mary Cummings, whose knitting needles aren\u2019t plastic but sharpened steel, to William Schoenfeld, who\u2019s stopped taking the medications that were supposed to silence the voices telling him to kill people, to Damon Sawyer, who\u2019s confined in Seclusion One and can\u2019t possibly escape, unless a power outage neutralizes the locks. Most threatening of all is Jade Carpenter, whose close friendship with Amy ended eight years ago when Amy turned her in for what ended up being only one of a whole series of thrill crimes. McFadden measures out the complications, revelations, and betrayals with such an expert hand that readers anxiously trying to figure out whom Amy can trust as her goal shifts from ticking off a toilsome requirement to surviving the night may well end up wondering whom they can trust themselves. And isn\u2019t provoking that kind of paranoia what medical thrillers are all about?<\/p>\n
A superior entry in the night-on-the-nightmare-ward genre.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Pub Date:<\/b> March 4, 2025<\/p>\n
ISBN:<\/b> 9781464227271<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Page Count:<\/b> 320<\/p>\n
Publisher:<\/b> Poisoned Pen<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Review Posted Online:<\/b> Dec. 13, 2024<\/p>\n
Kirkus Reviews Issue:<\/b> Jan. 15, 2025<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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