Chain of Custody: A Novel - Hardcover

When his estranged wife is found murdered in their apartment in the midst of their divorce, a wisecracking cardiologist and malpractice attorney must solve the murder and protect his clients before the law comes knocking at his door. 100,000 first printing.

r. Michael Malone. I used to be Assistant Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology at Mt. Zion Hospital and an honorary police surgeon as well (I have kept the cardboard parking permit on my dashboard to ward off parking tickets). Now I practice law rather than medicine. A change of heart, a change of venue, is the way I view it, though some former medical colleagues still act, all these years later, as if a cult is holding me against my will and I'm the one who needs an intervention.

Meet Dr. Michael Malone. Doctor. Lawyer. Suspect.
        
When his estranged wife, a highly respected deputy district attorney in charge of the sex crimes unit, is found murdered in their apartment, Malone falls, inevitably, under the suspicious eye of the police. After all, he's on the verge of a nasty divorce. He may lose custody of their teenaged son. His unusual medical-legal background gives him the kind of inside knowledge--ho