Hen's Teeth Published: 01, Jan, 1996 Published by The Woman's Press isbn: 0704346850 Buy this book from Amazon Shortlisted: 'First Blood Award' for best first crime novel 1996 Shortlisted: 'Orange Prize for Women's Fiction' 1997 Broadcast: Radio 4 Women's Hour (serial format)

Hen's Teeth US Edition Published: 01, Jan, 1996 Reprinted 1997, 2000 Buy this book from Amazon

Synopsis
Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back. Glasgow therapist Dr Kellen Stewart has put the past behind her: medical career, relationship, life on the farm in the country. Thenthe phone rings and Bridget is dead – the only lover who ever counted.The local doctor says it's a heart attack, the police think it's suicide. Kellen knows that it's neither but is she willing to rake up the past to prove it? Dragged into a world of rogue doctors, bent genetic engineers and killers who gut their victims as a warning, Kellen must face her own past as much as the very real terrors of the present to stop the killing – or she'll be next.