Tattoo: A Medical Thriller

Plastic surgeon Gareth Lloyd splits his time between repairing accident victims at local hospitals and trying--largely in vain--to persuade his private patients in a Los Angeles suburb to have the kind of expensive nips and tucks so popular in Beverly Hills. Divorced behind in his support payments for his two daughters and about to turn 40 Lloyds main connection to the glamorous side of plastic surgery is the affair he has just ended with the wife of a prominent facelifter-to-the-stars named Jack Ehrenberger. When Ehrenberger is murdered Lloyd becomes one of the suspects and has to find the real killer. Anthony Britto a plastic surgeon himself writes in a brisk energetic style.