The Nurse

By Valerie Keogh,

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The NUMBER ONE bestselling psychological thriller from Valerie Keogh!

'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'Brien

'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a…

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1 author picked The Nurse as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is different because the protagonist actually starts her murderous spree before she is a nurse and throughout the story, there are always good reasons for the crimes she commits, which helps you develop an understanding and even relate to her problems, if not her methods of dealing with them. Becoming a nurse just enables her sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies, which is very worrying.

The author is not from a medical background, but the nursing side is well-researched, even if I have a few questions about the authenticity of the medical aspects (like the actions of the drugs used.)…

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