Sometimes People Die, Stephenson - B

                     This novel is set in the UK at the turn of the millennium. The topic is health care serial killers. It is narrated by a young Scottish physician trying to re-establish a failed career. He has been booted from his previous hospital for abusing opioids. He goes to work for a poor East End hospital in an ancient building with poor patients and not enough staff or money. He is now clean and works diligently to toe the line. When it becomes known that a healthy elderly woman died of an opiate overdose, he comes under suspicion. However, he is soon absolved because the police conclude that the hospital is the scene of a series of murders. Within a few days, his flatmate, another physician, commits suicide, a wealthy young songwriter dies and a nurse is arrested for the murders. He's never quite comfortable with the confession that puts the nurse away. Some interesting twists and turns.