Paging Doctor Death

On the night shift, death is scheduled.

When a "natural" passing on Ward C sets off a prickle of doubt, nurse Tessa Markov starts to see a chilling pattern: terminal patients are quietly reassigned to the same celebrated physician minutes before they flatline. Charts vanish. Codes arrive a little too late. Families are persuaded to sign what they don't fully understand. And the only other witness-a soft-spoken night janitor-saw something he shouldn't have.

As Tessa pulls at the threads, the h...