Review: SPOILER ALERT!!! Good writing, terrible research
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
The book was well-written, but the entire premise of the book was just---awful. Mean doc dies after being injected with insulin.  Strangely, no one figures this out except the homespun heroine; and she does this through questions and gossip.  Interesting, because a medical examiner can tell the difference between exogenous insulin and endogenous insulin.  And of course, there's the injection puncture mark.  And the blood sigar of the victim.  All of this info would've been given to the detectives, but not in this story!  In this story, no one--not the ME's office, or detectives-- come to this conclusion until the heroine finds an empty insulin bottle.  And there was also drug pilfering.  But primary care docs DO NOT keep narcotics in their offices, cuz that's what a pharmacy is for.  And in medicine, a discrepancy in a narcotics count is dealt with THAT DAY not 6 months later.  Really ridiculous.  Just couldn't suspend my disbelief for this story.  Again, well-written but poorly researched and just flat unbelievable and kinda silly, really..