Reviews for The hospital
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Heavily sedated, barely able to speak, and feeling helpless, Emma Duncan wakes up to find that her eyes are covered in bandages and her only sense of the world around her is the sounds of a hospital: a beeping heart monitor, the shuffling of rubber-soled shoes, PA announcements summoning a Dr. Jones to ICU. A traumatic brain injury plagues Emma with screaming pain and prevents her from remembering what happened, other than a vague idea that she has been attacked. She must lie still if she is to recover. In time, her vulnerability makes her increasingly fearful, afraid of the people caring for her, convinced she will be attacked again and this time won't survive. Immobilized, Emma is completely at the mercy of her fears, much like the heroine of Lucille Fletcher's radio play Sorry, Wrong Number, the intended victim of a murder plot she discovers by accident only too late. Then, inch by inch, Emma begins to fight back. Wolfe (If I Go Missing) will have readers on edge as they ache for Emma to remember and to escape. VERDICT With her 31st novel, the prolific Wolfe has made a spectacular contribution not just to her own body of work but to the universe of suspense fiction.—Michael F. Russo
