num_pages: 350
description: In Stephenson Vonnegut may have his first true protg Washington Post[A] thriller from [an] ex-doctor about a spate of mysterious deaths in a beleaguered hospital. Insightful on addiction and doctors' lives it reads almost like a comic medical memoir  with murder thrown in The BooksellerThe year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Lukes.Amid the maelstrom of sick patients over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying.Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrators version of the events be trusted?
language: English
title: Sometimes People Die
publisher: HarperCollins