Author: David Cornoy
Publication Date: 08/07/2010
Publisher: Overlook Press US
Kristen Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago -- but now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them?
ThatAs just it, the cops said. She hadnAt told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.
Tense and twisting, "Knife Music" is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year-old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset itAs not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate.
Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott TurowAs "Presumed Innocent."
