APPROPRIATE REVENGE a mystery with Dr. Maria Garcia and her monster, Dojo
Welcome to the cavernous, darkened, deathly cold autopsy suite of South Texas Regional Hospital. As preteens, Maria Garcia and her best friend Dojo Lewis, who is scarred from congenital defects as well as surgical mishaps, play with the bodies there while Dojo's mother, pathologist Gertrude Lewis wasn't watching. As adults, the childhood friends both grew up to be doctors. Maria's life appears to be good from an outer view. She is married, has a good job, and just recently bought a new house, but looks can be deceiving. Her husband is a mooch, her mother has Alzheimer's Disease, and when her father is shot by a poor farmer, her drug-addled teenage brother Victor vows to take revenge. Her father fears that Victor will be killed or imprisoned carrying out this vow and asks Maria to protect him.
Dojo is always lurking in the background when it comes to Maria. His behavior seems to border between lurking and possibly stalking as he always seem to be in the shadows. Maria is able to intervene and save the farmer from Victor's attack but Victor won't give up on his vow of revenge quite so easily. Maria's life becomes a perilous journey of attempted murders, kidnapping, and the use of hypnosis and electroshock on the farmer when it's discovered that he suffers from schizophrenia. This surreal life becomes even more tangled when she finds a racist reporter named Bill Silverman near death from a gunshot wound after one of Victor's attacks. If Maria saves his life, he may testify against them. But can she let him die?
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