FATAL DIAGNOSIS Book 4 in the Adele Monsarrat Mystery Thriller Series (Revised 2025) A HEADLESS MAN IS FISHED OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY, his body disfigured by a monster with a scalpel. After minor surgery a patient complains of an inexplicable rash that won't go away. Another patient's new pacemaker plays havoc with electrical equipment. On Ellis Hospital's infamous Ward 8, Adele Monsarrat, a nurse with a knack for solving crimes, draws a connection between the strange postsurgical events and an evergrowing list of disfigured corpses showing up from one coast to the other. Assisted by Cynthia O'Neil, her offbeat best friend, Adele soon finds herself tangled up in a complex investigation into crimes that have dangerous ties reaching halfway around the world. Ignoring the warnings of Detective Tim Pitman and the FBI, Adele finds herself trapped in circumstances far more deadly and terrifying than anything she has faced before.