The Private Patient

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every chance of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life - but she won't leave Cheverell Manor alive. After her murder, and with the future of the clinic at risk, Dalgliesh and his team are shown every courtesy - but the case raises far more complicated problems than merely the question of innocence or guilt . .