The Lethal Prescription

In the coastal town of Eastport, Inspector Hugo Blackwood, a lover of crosswords and Wagner, is drawn into a string of deaths at the Seaview Rest Home. All appear to be natural causes—until a cryptic crossword clue suggests otherwise. Blackwood and his sergeant, Amy Lin, uncover a monstrous secret: the pharmaceutical giant Aegis Therapeutics has been using elderly residents as unwilling subjects for a lethal drug trial, exploiting a jurisdictional gap that leaves the victims without a voice. As the investigation stalls between local and federal authorities, Blackwood must overcome his own outdated methods to prove that the so-called perfect crimes are merely the result of law enforcement thinking a century behind the times.