num_pages: 408
description: Written by the author of "Jurassic Park", this medical thriller won the USA's Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel. Was it murder, or horribly botched surgery, or was someone in the great Boston medical centre violating the Hippocratic oath? One doctor is willing to seek out the truth.
language: English
title: A Case of Need
titlecomplete: A Case of Need
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Medicine, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Medical, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 38246
places: Boston, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House