Title: SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE
Author: Simon Stephenson
Publisher: The Borough Press
Expected publication: out now
As a health professional, I always
get excited by well written medical thrillers, and the best ones seem to be
written by doctors themselves, which gives them a lot of credibility and
insight into the health system. I am very pleased to be able to take part in
the blog tour for SOMETIMES PEOPLE DIE, a dark and haunting novel that glimpses
into the dark corners of modern medicine.
Book Description:
The year is 1999. Returning to
practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes
the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling
east London hospital of St Luke’s.
Amid the maelstrom of sick patients,
over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself:
too many patients are dying.
Which of the medical professionals
our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders?
About the author:
Simon Stephenson originally trained
as a doctor and worked in Scotland and London. He previously wrote Let Not
the Waves of the Sea, a memoir about the loss of his brother in the Indian
ocean tsunami. It won Best First Book at the Scottish Book Awards, was a Book
of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
His first novel, Set My Heart
to Five was a Bookseller Book of the Month and was described by the Daily
Mail as ‘Funny, original and thought-provoking.’ It has been optioned by
Working Title Films to be directed by Edgar Wright from Stephenson’s
screenplay.
He currently lives in Los Angeles,
in a house where a famous murder took place. As a screenwriter, he originated
and wrote the Benedict Cumberbatch starrer The Electrical Life of Louis Wain and
wrote the story for Pixar’s Luca. He also contributed to everybody’s
favourite film, Paddington 2.
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