A Particularly Nasty Case

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781398704428

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 21st May 2026

Genre: Humour / Medicine / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

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When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does though, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. So when another senior doctor dies in similar circumstances, he’s determined to prove there’s more to these deaths than meets the eye.

But following time off for his mental health, Eitan’s friends and colleagues begin to question his judgement as his chaotic investigation and equally chaotic life spiral simultaneously out of control. Is he making a career-ending mistake, or could there genuinely be a killer stalking the wards?

A deathly funny mix of mystery, murder and medicine, A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is the brilliantly original debut novel from Adam Kay, BAFTA-winning author of multi-million global bestseller THIS IS GOING TO HURT.


PRAISE FOR ADAM KAY
‘Richly comic. Kay’s writing is a constant pleasure’ Daily Express
‘Spectacularly brilliant’ Cathy Rentzenbrink
‘Piercingly funny’ Tanya Gold, Daily Telegraph
‘One of Britain’s funniest writers’ Grace Dent
‘Extraordinary’ Observer

Reviews

'A thrilling, twisting mystery that kept me guessing until the very end. Of course it's impossibly funny, but it's also deeply moving and often heartbreaking'
Chris Whitaker
'Multilayered, deeply compassionate, righteously angry and uproariously funny - absolutely brilliant'
Chris Brookmyre
'Olympic-level black humour and blindsiding plot twists'
Jill Mansell
'Brilliant, hilarious, ingenious and imaginative. It will make you laugh and weep'
Reverend Richard Coles
'Amazing: so clever and funny. Medical knowledge twines the plot together like poison ivy, and I was gripped right up to the last minute'
Joanna Lumley