The Insane Train: 2 (A Hook Runyon Mystery 2)

After a devastating fire at an insane asylum in California Hook Runyon has been put in charge of security for a train that is to transport the survivors alongside the head of the asylum Dr. Baldwin the attending doctor taciturn Dr. Helms and a self-sacrificing nurse named Andrea to a new location in Oklahoma. Hook hires a motley crew of WW II veterans to help and they set out for the new destination. But things go awry on the Insane Train as several inmates and attendants are found dead and Dr. Baldwin seems increasingly disoriented and incapable of running operations. With Andreas help Hook begins investigating the suspicious deaths and uncovers a trail of revenge that has been a long time in the planning...by a person as mentally disturbed as her charges.