A Cause and Manner - E-book - ePub

A sleep-deprived doctor seeks advice on dealing severely with his wife's lover. Suspense, dark humour and physicians behaving badly. A Cause and Manner is a medical noir thriller. Matthew Kork is an anesthesiologist at a Canadian community hospital. There is tension in the operating room between Matt and an elitist surgeon, Angelo Amodeo. There is also tension between Matt and his wife, whom he suspects of having an affair.
Her boyfriend dies in what looks like a staged suicide. Angelo disappears next. Matt is either responsible for these events or wished for them hard enough. Matt is also the local coroner and is assigned to investigate the boyfriend's death. Despite an obvious conflict of interest, he accepts the case and brings in a verdict of suicide. The decedent's family launches a wrongful death lawsuit. At the hearing, their lawyer is on the verge of discovering the love affair that would have given Matt a motive for murder.
He admits to all the allegations against him to bring the proceedings to a close. This by no means confirms his guilt. Peter Tinits is a physician in Ontario, Canada. The book title is taken from coroners' parlance for findings made at the conclusion of an investigation. The storyline features authentic details and gallows humour that only an insider would know. The question of whether murder can be justified, if it is well earned, remains unanswered. Advance Praise for A CAUSE and MANNERBloody good  -Sebringville StarEffinging great -Mennonite GazetteYou have to read this one.
Very effing great -Mitchell TimesIt changed my life -13th Dalai LamaSo-so, if you can't find anything on Netflix -Russ HorodelskiStrong writing, if you like that kind of thing -Charles Hamilton, Hamilton HousePretty darn good -Nijole TinitsPassable first effort -Lila Cook, Nijole's sisterNot that bad -Peterborough Anarchists Motorcycle Club I liked the hockey chapter -Father O'Brien, Coach, Coventry Minor Bantam HockeyNo blood or blood products -The WatchtowerI would rather have a root canal -Mark Straus DDSI'm a better writer -Hawthorne DidierIt's no Duddy Kravitz -Yale Erenberg MDSmut and filth -Smiths Falls Literary Review