Unfaithful unto Death

By Jennifer Barraclough

Dr Cyril Peabody has been told he has personality problems. His hospital career is over. Now he is stuck in a country general practice in rural England, seeing patients he considers beneath him, working for a senior partner he despises, and going home every night to his wife Rosamund whose cooking he finds almost as baffling as she is.
Cyril is arrogant, oblivious, and absolutely convinced of his own superiority. He is also, it turns out, exactly the wrong man to be in exactly the right place when things start going very wrong at Market Beeching Health Centre.
There is a drug trial that nobody asked for. A pharmaceutical rep with suspiciously blue eyes who takes far too much interest in Rosamund. A dying cancer patient whose medication has been switched. A golden labrador that keeps losing its fur. And a series of illnesses and deaths in the local community that nobody can quite explain, until Cyril, almost by accident, starts paying attention.
Sharp, wry, and wickedly funny, Unfaithful Unto Death is a black comedy with serious undertones, a satire on 1980s medical culture, pharmaceutical industry ethics, and the peculiar institution of the doctor's marriage. It features Dr Cyril Peabody, the gloriously impossible anti-hero who also appears in Overdose and Fatal Feverfew.
Perfect for readers who love darkly comic British crime fiction, medical satire, 1980s period settings, and morally questionable protagonists who stumble into solving murders entirely by accident.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1535116641
• ISBN13: 9781535116640
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"