Jane Ziegler is a district nurse in her late 40s,very plain and over weight ( according to her ),her two daughters and mother have nothing to do with her,she lives a solitary life doing her best to fade into the background.She doesn't mix with her work colleagues,just goes to work,takes care of her patients and then goes home to her empty house.Then one day she realises that she is in the perfect position to commit the perfect murder because she has access to a certain certificate.Picking the perfect victim is easy,there are plenty of patients that have bad attitudes and get on her nerves.It's just a case of working out an undetectable method to kill someone without raising suspicion about how they died and her involvement. I had mixed feelings about Jane,she didn't come across as a very nice person,she looked down on people and was very opinionated but she had also be treated badly by her mother and ex husband whose digs and comments have obviously eaten into her self esteem and given a complete lack of confidence so I did feel a tiny bit of sympathy for her.There are a lot of people in the world that have been mistreated and have no self confidence and they don't wake up one morning and decide that they are going to kill someone just to see if they can get away with it so there was obviously something wrong with her mentally to begin with.Who will she decide to murder,how will they do it and will she get away with it?. The book only has 71 pages and the story is told by Jane as she voices her thoughts on how she feels and the people around her.It's not fast paced but the story was intriguing enough to keep the reader interested and there was a twist at the end.It would have been interesting to have had some more background information on Jane,like why her daughters weren't talking to her which was never explained but it was an interesting story,quite scary when you think of how much trust we have to put in people who work in the medical profession and I did enjoy the book.
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