Intensive Scare Unit

Perfectly combining the regional delights of Maine with an intriguing whodunit, author J.S. Borthwick introduces her twelfth Sarah Deane mystery, a medical conundrum of death by unnatural causes in a New England hospital... ER, ICU...and R.I.P. Crotchety, seventy-something Julia Clancy of High Hope Farm feels a little wobbly one August morning. With stables to clean and riding lessons to give, the stoic New Englander ignores her symptoms-and ends up in the ER with a heart attack. Even then, she's insisting it's indigestion; even then, her sharp eyes don't miss a thing. And a glimpse of something highly unusual will entangle Julia Clancy in the baffling murder of a hospital VIP. The police soon have suspects galore and no hard evidence. But Julia tells her niece Sarah Deane what she saw...and what she fears: that the killer will get her next. Now amateur sleuth Sarah needs to make her own diagnosis of Julia's revelation and sew up the case before the star witness gets a fatal visit from Dr. Death.... "We can recognize cozy country when we sink our sensible walking shoes in it...Borthwick does this sort of thing beautifully in her durable series." --The New York Times Book Review "[Borthwick] has a sharp eye for character and setting." -Chicago TribuneCreighton, Jean Scott is the author of 'Intensive Scare Unit', published 2005 under ISBN 9780312995522 and ISBN 0312995520.