{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Sharp Scratch","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/sharp-scratch","description":"\u0026#39;A brilliant and darkly compelling thriller, with a genuinely creepy mix of mystery, psychology and murder.\u0026#39; - S. D. Sykes, author of Plague Land \u0026#39;A dazzling new voice in crime fiction. Taut, twisty and addictive. Martine Bailey is one to watch.\u0026#39; - Louisa Treger, author of Madwoman Five candidates. One job. A killer prepared to murder their way to the top. Salford, 1983. Lorraine Quick is a single mother, a member of a band going nowhere fast, and personnel officer at the grim Memorial Hospital. A new general manager position is being introduced, and Lorraine\u0026#39;s recent training in the cutting-edge science of psychometric testing will be pivotal. As the profiles start to emerge, a chilling light is cast on the candidates. When a lethal dose of anaesthetic is deliberately substituted for a flu vaccine, and a second suspicious death quickly follows, it\u0026#39;s clear a killer is at work in the hospital. Can Lorraine\u0026#39;s personality tests lead her to the murderer?","author_name":"Martine Bailey","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/martine-bailey","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/61874373/591583b290e412d943f8b9acd14d874a784c5cb7.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":197}