Night Mares - Softcover

Scott, Manda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747258805 ISBN 13: 9780747258803

Publisher: Headline Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

Dr Nina Crawford of the University of Glasgow's Vet School - driven, fanatically dedicated, a survivor - is one of the most respected animal surgeons in the country. But now she seems to be losing her grip. On her operating theatre, on her skills - and on her mind. After routine operations, horses are dying of the highly infectious E. Coli endotoxaemia, and even when the theatre is sterilised the outbreak isn't stemmed. Under the fierce scrutiny of those around her Nina feels herself spiralling into the depths that led her, years before, to attempt suicide. Kellen Stewart, heroine of Manda Scott's astonishing debut novel Hen's Teeth, is Nina's friend and therapist. Now her horse needs emergency surgery, and she is catapulted into Nina's tragic dilemma. And soon it becomes clear that not only horses' lives are on the line...

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

ection...A race against time...An investigation that leads to your worst...Night Mares

Something is very wrong at Nina Crawford's veterinary surgery on the outskirts of Glasgow. Despite all her medical efforts, a deadly strain of bacteria is killing every horse that passes through her operating theatre. And the vicious nightmares that once plagued Nina have returned, pushing her to the very brink of suicide--unless her psychiatrist and friend Kellen Stewart can save her from going over the edge.

Kellen is mystified. Why, after such steady progress, should Nina's mental state deteriorate? Even more deaths at Nina's surgery and a suspicious fire at her home threaten to crumble Nina's fragile defenses. It's a case that will push Kellen over a line she never thought she'd cross--and before it's over, she'll risk not only her profession, but her very life.

From the Back Cover:

"Explosive...Scott fuses raw emotion with complex characters....Surgical procedures in textbook detail and a pharmacopoeia beyond Herriot's wildest hopes flesh out the story line. Night Mares richly compensates the reader for sleepless nights spent turning pages."
--Booknews from The Poisoned Pen

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0747258805
• ISBN 13: 9780747258803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320