# Isolation Ward

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- Book: [Isolation Ward](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey/isolation-ward) ([Isolation Ward.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey/isolation-ward.md))
- Authors: [Martine Bailey](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey)
- Publisher: Allison & Busby
- ISBN: 978-07-4903-105-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2025-08-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Yorkshire, 1983. Lorraine Quick''s life was looking up with a promotion that took her away from the grim Memorial Hospital and all its bad associations. But now Lorraine has her work cut out for her building a PR-friendly team out of the ragtag staff of the infamous Windwell Asylum as it transitions into a modern, top-security unit housing some of the most dangerous criminals in the country. And then Lorraine discovers a brutal murder has taken place on site despite the fifteen-foot-high perimeter wall and heavy-duty locks. Between the asylum''s lingering reputation for violence, the haunting underground tunnels of the old institution and the arrival of almost-old flame DS Diaz to investigate the murder, events are coming to a head for Lorraine at the old asylum. For readers who love a tense and twisty medical thriller like Freida McFadden''s Ward D and Leslie Wolfe''s The Surgeon. The bleak, Yorkshire moorland setting and Thatcher''s beleaguered NHS provides a chilling backdrop for an impossible-to-put-down crime thriller. The dark side to the profession that purports to ''do no harm'' has perennial fascination with readers. The follow-up to Bailey''s chilling Sharp Scratch, Isolation Ward similarly draws upon the author''s time working at the - heart of the NHS, including Ashworth top security psychiatric hospital.