RAYNER, CLAIRE — Third Degree

Petaluma, CA: MP Publishing Limited, 2011. First Edition. First Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 1849821321. Dr. George Barnabas Mystery Series; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2\"; 375 pages; Soft cover has a black spine, with white lettering. NEW. 'When a severed leg is found on the banks of the Thames, Dr George Barnabas, female forensic pathologist and determined investigator, is summoned to the macabre scene. But with no sign of the rest of the body, she cannot say how the man died. Her next case is equally bizarre: a terribly burned woman in a first-floor flat - and the fireman thinks the fire started in the body itself. George, despite budget battles with the hospital boards and squabbles among her lab staff, desperately wants to pursue these with the local Detective Chief Inspector - her lover, Gus Hathaway - but he has been so tied up on another big case that she has barely seen him for a month. George has to suppress a guilty flash of relief that he must surely return to his own patch now and run the investigation. But he doesn't, and his deputy wont let her near the case. '. New .