Hocus Corpus

As chief resident of surgery at Pittsburgh University Medical Center, Dr. Jack Merlin knows that patient fatalities are a fact of life. But when four people die after successful routine operations, he has cause for suspicion. The victims have nothing in common-except the same insurance carrier. It's a tantalizing link, but it doesn't explain how--or why--each of them was infected with a lethal bacteria.

With the body count rising and his career in jeopardy, Dr. Merlin wields his own magic in an investigation the hospital administration wants closed. And the more he unravels the truth, the more ruthless he discovers his adversaries to be-but Merlin has more than one trick up his sleeve....