Mary Daheim’s wonderful world of Hillside Manor is zany, engrossing, and positively addicting! In Suture Self, Judith McMonigle Flynn is scheduled for a hip replacement. Instead of looking ahead to her new mobility, she’s worried. “Routine surgery” recently cost a local actress and a star baseball pitcher their lives. Though Judith smells malice, she successfully survives her operation—but another patient isn’t so lucky.
Stuck in this chamber of Hippocratic horrors, Judith feels compelled to get to the bottom of what could be the worst malpractice case ever recorded … or perhaps something much more sinister. The worst diagnosis of all is the one that suggests Judith’s curiosity is terminal … and that a killer is saving a last lethal dose of medicine for her.
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"I liked that this was set entirely in the hospital. It had some great characters to throw you off the trail: Mr. Mummer, Corrine the nurse, Curly the maintenance man and all the other religious staff. The snowstorm made things worse and I had no idea whodunit. I love these two cousins :)"
— Jenn (4 out of 5 stars)
“Anna Fields performs a top-notch interpretation; she presents this quirky tale with precise yet soothing diction that immerses the listener in the events.”
— AudioFile“There are people who love B&Bs and delight in near-bloodless mysteries. If you’re looking for a get-well present for one of them, Suture Self might be it.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review" Another crazy but enterrtaining read. "
— Tracey, 12/9/2013" This whole group of books is just fun reading, mostly for women, not heavy literature that my brother Scott would go for (: "
— Tracy, 10/28/2013" Read this awhile ago. It was the first book of this series I had read. I decided to start at the beginning to have it make more sense. :) "
— VJ, 2/24/2011" When I was a teen I read a lot of everything, including mysteries and romances. This book is that kind of light-hearted writing, while also being immensely clear and concise. Funny with strange hospital mystery ala Murder She Wrote type storylines but with more grit. "
— Foxthyme, 4/20/2010" This whole group of books is just fun reading, mostly for women, not heavy literature that my brother Scott would go for (: "
— Tracy, 9/15/2009" When I was a teen I read a lot of everything, including mysteries and romances. This book is that kind of light-hearted writing, while also being immensely clear and concise. Funny with strange hospital mystery ala Murder She Wrote type storylines but with more grit. "
— Foxthyme, 7/21/2008Mary Daheim (1937-2022) was the author of sixty-seven novels of romance, historical romance, and cozy mysteries. She had been a journalist, an editor, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer, but fiction was always her medium of choice. In 2000 she won the Literary Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. In 2008 she was inducted into the University of Washington’s Communication Alumni Hall of Fame.
Kate Fleming (a.k.a. Anna Fields) (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.