Murder on the Ward

<p><strong>It’s 1991 and Western Meadows Hospital should be a place for healing and academic endeavour</strong>. Instead it becomes a focus of murder and mystery when the professor of medicine is found dead in a ward bed.</p><p>Dr Chris Walker a young cancer specialist finds himself in the middle of it. The professor’s death looks like an accident but Walker is suspicious. The professor had a lot of enemies. To make matters worse the professor’s daughter is a trainee oncologist working with Walker and she seemed strangely calm when sees her father’s corpse.</p><p>Detective Barry Darling is sent to investigate. He and Walker grew up best friends in The Rocks knocking around and getting up to no good until a local copper threatened them with juvenile detention. They pulled themselves together and Walker became a doctor and Darling a policeman. The problem was both loved the same woman Felicity and she chose Walker. A few years after they were married Felicity died under mysterious circumstances while working in New Guinea with Walker. Darling will never forgive Walker for letting her die.</p><p>Now sworn enemies they are thrown back together to try and solve the professor’s death.</p><p>Did a murder really happen? If so who did it?</p><p>And what really happened to Walker’s wife?</p><p><strong>About the author</strong></p><p>Howard Gurney was born in Sydney Australia and is the author of six novels and multiple peer-reviewed medical journal articles. He works as a medical oncologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and is also a professor of medicine at Macquarie University where he undertakes clinical trials for cancer patients. His first fantasy fiction novel <em>Twin</em> was self-published in 2015. Now he has turned his hand to something closer to home – medical murder mysteries.</p><p>Howard lives in Sydney with his wife and their five children. He has also worked in Manchester UK and travels extensively.</p>