Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

An anatomy student on the autism spectrum, long obsessed with death after his father’s fatal accident, becomes convinced that the cadaver assigned to his dissection class did not die naturally. His relentless investigation runs parallel to the consciousness of a man trapped in a coma who senses a predator among the hospital staff, and the two threads converge to expose a clinical murder and a cover-up. Along the way, he confronts grief, social alienation, and the uneasy boundary between curiosity and compassion.

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