Dr. Harry Kent

Dr. Harry Kent likes to keep himself busy-juggling hospital duties with his work as a police surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police-anything to ward off the memories of his time as an army medic. Usually, police work means minor injuries and mental health assessments. But teenager Solomon Idris's case is different. Idris has taken eight people, hostage, in a fast-food restaurant and is demanding to see a lawyer and a BBC reporter. Harry is sent in to treat the clearly-ill teenager ... before the siege goes horribly wrong. When Solomon's life is put in danger again at a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect. Determined to uncover the secret that drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon realizes that someone in the medical world, someone he may even know, has broken the doctors' commandment to "do no harm" many times over ...

Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss, a famous heart surgeon at a renowned children's hospital. She accused him of negligence, operations were halted, and an inquiry launched. But in the end, she was the one suspended as a troublemaker. Now Dr. Harry Kent, a medical examiner with the Metropolitan Police, has been called out to certify her suicide. But something about the scene is wrong; it appears someone held Susan down while she died. The grieving parents of the children who died demand answers. e hospital is stonewalling. Everyone has secrets. And it's up to Harry Kent and Detective Chief Inspector Frankie Noble to find out which secrets were worth killing for.