"Professional courtesy" for doctors in the tightly knit medical community of Milwaukee, Wisconsin means helping each other with medical cases and looking after each other's families. So when Dr. Maxine St. Clair, an emergency room physician, fails to save the life of Nanette Meyer, the wife of a prominent local surgeon, Dr. St. Clair believes it's her responsibility to find out why Nanette staggered into Maxine's ER with mysterious neurological symptoms and begged specifically for Dr. St. Clair's help. To Maxine's surprise, she is quickly warned off by Nanette's husband and other doctors with the stern reminder that "professional courtesy" also means hiding each other's blunders and asking probing questions is not a good idea, especially when Maxine had a romantic history with the husband. But it's too late for Maxine to stop searching for the truth. The autopsy she requested shows that the poison that killed the beautiful Nanette came from Maxine's own research lab. Now Maxine has to clear herself by tracing every step during Nanette's last day on earth-including why Nanette appeared in the ER dressed like a hooker, where she spent that evening, and who in the medical community gave her the poison that killed her.
About the Author: Janet McGiffin wrote three mystery novels for Fawcett First Edition which she has revised and republished as Professional Courtesy, Dose of Death, and Killer Art. They all feature Dr. Maxine St. Clair, an Emergency Room doctor in an inner city hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She teams up with Detective Joseph Grabowski to find the facts. In the first of another series, Date Rape New York, Grazia Conti, a tough Italian lawyer on vacation in New York goes out for a drink with friends and wakes up the next morning realizing she has been drugged and assaulted. She vows to recover her memory and exact revenge. Janet McGiffin also wrote two Graded Readers for the Cambridge University Press English as a Second Language book series. Emergency Murder (Level Five - Cambridge English Readers), and Murder by Art (Level Five - Upper Intermediate Cambridge English Readers). After spending eleven years in Greece, she turned to writing crime novels based in Byzantine Greece. She also writes hiking articles for Matt Barrett's Guides. Presently, she lives in New York City where she teaches English as a second language to foreign business executives and spends her summers in Greece.