Deadly Practice — Christine Green

NURSING A GRUDGE

Kate Kinsella has fallen on hard times when her work, both as a nurse and as a private medical investigator, dries up. Until she gets a break--if one can call it that--with a murder.

Fiend and landlord Hubert Humberstone--also the undertaker and local busybody--practically tosses her into the investigation of Jenny Martin, a nurse whose body is found in the trunk of her burned-out car. She had been beaten to death.

Kate not only gets Jenny's old job, but she's hired by the mother of the chief suspect, and starts probing the most convoluted--and the most dangerous--case of her career.