Sara Paretsky – Bitter Medicine  – (2 cassettes, approx. running time 3 hours)

Penguin Audio Books

Consuelo is sixteen, heavily pregnant and married to Fabiano, a jobless gangster.

When she is rushed into the Friendship private hospital, Vic Warsahwski, family friend and ex-lawyer, has to fight tooth and nail to get medical attention for her, but even that isn’t enough.

Consuelo and her baby are tragic victims of a system so corrupt that it pays Fabiano to keep quiet. Too look closer is to look for trouble. Which is exactly what Vic feels she must do.

Read by Christine Lahti.