Just when everyone thought it was safe to return to the hospital wards at Kilminster Hospital in the west of England, misanthropist and curmudgeon Dr. Brian Standish is in prison for suspected homicide. Earlier, Brian, a hematologist at the hospital, was embroiled in a series of savage murders that were solved. Or were they?

Dr. Brian Standish isn't happy.His wife thinks he's a misanthropist, but Brian believes he merely hates most people.He never wanted to be a hematologist, or a doctor for that matter. But he is and doesn't like what he sees daily at Kilminster General, his hospital in the west of England: conceit, philandering, and dissembling, with Big Pharma feeding at the trough while acting as a puppeteer for his colleagues. And then there's the ...