When malpractice attorneys turn up dead

The plot of a Scalpel, a novel where a serial-killer surgeon hunts down lawyers:

Berman’s main character ““ who, Berman insists, is not his alter ego — is a mysterious surgeon who is tired of attorneys who relentlessly pursue medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who have done nothing wrong. The attorneys stop at nothing to ruin the careers and lives of their victims.

One surgeon, whose wife committed suicide because she was hounded by a medical malpractice attorney, decides to fight back. He’s committed to reintroducing justice into the system””but his own kind of justice, administered in his own way.

Malpractice attorneys begin to turn up dead. Each one is uniquely executed””and surgically altered in bizarre and disturbing ways. There are no fingerprints and no blood. Few clues are left behind. Usable evidence is sparse. And the killer, as he contemplates what he’s accomplished, silently dedicates each murder to the memory of his beloved wife.

(via This Makes Me Sick)