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Four dog's sake, Lia Farrell

Four dog's sake

Lia Farrell

A Mae December mystery

CRIME & MYSTERY. On a hot, humid July 4th evening in Rosedale, Tennessee, a young man is dead on arrival at the hospital where Dr. Lucy Ingram works. Lucy recalls the affable young man, Chester Willis, from an earlier visit. The death is pronounced a suicide from an overdose of the insulin used to treat his diabetes, but Lucy isn't convinced. The man just wasn't the suicidal type. She pushes for another autopsy, and they find an injection site proving that someone else administered the deadly dose. Later in the week his ailing father dies as well. Now there is the matter of the father's will. Who stood to benefit if Chester was taken out of the equation? The easy answer is Chester's brother Rick, who is in debt and has an expensive fiancee. Then there's Brooke, the struggling massage therapist the old man befriended. The will has made her a wealthy woman