Bitter Medicine

by SaraParetsky (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $29.48

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.43

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.57

  Consuelo is sixteen, heavily pregnant and married to an unemployed gangster. The last thing she needs is a negligent doctor. When she is rushed into the Friendship private hospital, the staff are reluctant to treat her. Fortunately she has Vic Warshawski, family friend and ex-lawyer, with her. But Consuelo and her baby are the tragic victims of a system so corrupt that it pays her husband to keep quiet. Anyone who can discover anything about the unorthodox dealings of the Friendship is in danger. And Vic's investigations are just about to begin ...