Ready for a clean break, Dr Alison Wilson has moved from London to a small seaside town to take up a new a post as Medical Director at failing hospital, St Margaret’s.
With a higher-than-average fatality rate Alison is tasked to turn things around – a challenge she is keen to get her teeth into- but the odds are not in her favour and some of those factors are far darker than she could have even possibly imagined.
The Doctor is a fast-paced medical thriller. The hospital setting made it different to many other thrillers I have read before, and it was evident the author knew what she was talking about (having worked in the NHS herself) and therefore the details were spot on. I found the start slightly slow but once the suspense started building, I couldn’t get through the pages fast enough as I was so eager to find out who was behind everything.
Th characters in the book were very well developed–from the main protagonist herself right to the extras in the story- I could imagine each and everyone of them and emphasise with the emotions they were feeling.
One thing I found confusing was that the narrative of the suspect was added at the end of some chapters and there was a lack of differentiation which meant I sometimes had to go back and re-read it in the correct context. This may be clearer in a printed version but on Kindle it was just a new paragraph in the same font.
Overall four stars. A great medical mystery.
With thanks to NetGalley and Avon for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. The Doctor is out on Thursday 25th May 2023.
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