The Night Ward of Saint Lazarus
A Historical Medical Thriller

About this book:

In the frozen shadow of Prague's plague hospital, Dr. Marek Svoboda tends the dying by lantern light, armed with humoral theory, vinegar washes, and a surgeon's blade. But when a corpse arrives bearing the black swellings of the pestilence—and the unmistakable bruises of a strangler's thumbs—Marek sees what the priests and magistrates refuse to acknowledge: a murderer is using the epidemic as his shroud. With the Thirty Years' War igniting beyond the city walls and a Jesuit confessor demanding silence for the sake of order, Marek must choose between his license and the truth bleeding out on his dissecting table.

*The Night Ward of Saint Lazarus* plunges you into a 1618 Prague where miasma chokes the streets, leeches share jars with poison vials, and every coughing patient might be a witness—or the next victim. As imperial soldiers pound the gates and the Vltava runs solid with ice, Marek races to identify a killer who wears the plague like a mask, knowing that in a city gone mad with fear, the most dangerous contagion is a secret someone will kill to keep buried.