No sorrow to die
By: Gillian Galbraith
Series: An Alice Rice mystery; Alice Rice mystery -- 04; An Alice Rice mystery -- 4.
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780753188866; 9780753188873
Subjects: Fiction; Terminally ill; Murder; Investigation; Policewomen
Description: "Heather Brodie kisses her lover good night. But back at home her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie. Devastated by an incurable illness, he had pleaded to be allowed to die. Detective Sergeant Alice Rice investigates when another terminally ill man wakes to find someone with a knife in his bedroom. Is this just a coincidence? Or is there a serial killer on the loose with a mission to get rid of the sick? Alice has troubles of her own when she finds that her partner, Ian Melville, is lying to her. What secret is he hiding?"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: "Heather Brodie kisses her lover good night. But back at home her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie. Devastated by an incurable illness, he had pleaded to be allowed to die. Detective Sergeant Alice Rice investigates when another terminally ill man wakes to find someone with a knife in his bedroom. Is this just a coincidence? Or is there a serial killer on the loose with a mission to get rid of the sick? Alice has troubles of her own when she finds that her partner, Ian Melville, is lying to her. What secret is he hiding?"; title: P. [4] of cover.