Jane Corbett – författare

For courses in medical-surgical nursing, and lab and diagnosis/diagnostic tests.A complete nurse’s guide to applying lab results and diagnoses to patient careLaboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses teaches students how to use data from lab tests and diagnostic procedures to plan nursing care, while emphasizing the human side of testing. Guided by case studies and NCLEX®-style questions, students can practice applying knowledge of tests and diagnoses to varied clinical situations. The 9th edition is useful as both a theory text and a quick reference guide. It reflects new evidence¿-based practice standards and introduces new and expanded uses for tests, with a special focus on genetic and rapid tests.

After the death of her mother, Jessie discovers her old diary, written in 1998 during a traumatic three weeks of captivity, having being kidnapped by Corsican nationalists. Twenty-two years later, she decides to return to the island, to face the memories that continue to plague her and to lay any remaining ghosts.

She travels to a mountain village above the bay of Calvi. Before setting out to discover the whereabouts of the remote farm where she was held, she takes time to explore the landscape and enjoy a much-needed holiday in this wildly beautiful place.

But on the evening of the local Olive Festival, she is brought face to face with the past in the shape of the youngest brother of the family who once held her captive, the boy she fancied and the decoy who lured her into captivity. As she is forced to confront the trauma of that experience, her feelings for him are rekindled, drawing her deeper and deeper into an intense, clandestine love affair that threatens them both with most dangerous consequences.

After the death of her mother, Jessie discovers her old diary, written in 1998 during a traumatic three weeks of captivity, having being kidnapped by Corsican nationalists. Twenty-two years later, she decides to return to the island, to face the memories that continue to plague her and to lay any remaining ghosts.

She travels to a mountain village above the bay of Calvi. Before setting out to discover the whereabouts of the remote farm where she was held, she takes time to explore the landscape and enjoy a much-needed holiday in this wildly beautiful place.

But on the evening of the local Olive Festival, she is brought face to face with the past in the shape of the youngest brother of the family who once held her captive, the boy she fancied and the decoy who lured her into captivity. As she is forced to confront the trauma of that experience, her feelings for him are rekindled, drawing her deeper and deeper into an intense, clandestine love affair that threatens them both with most dangerous consequences.

Torn between her Irish and African roots, Fela returns to Ireland with her close pals, Simon and Jonas, to join one of Dublin’s fast-growing pharmaceutical companies. But the innocent Ireland she recalls from her childhood has moved on, and her hopes of a bright future are quickly shattered. The close bond between the three friends is increasingly threatened by acts of greed, betrayal, and murder, until finally she is the only one left.

Part conspiracy thriller, part love story, The Last Musketeer follows Fela’s journey as she makes one horrifying discovery after another in her determination to unravel the mystery and uncover the truth.

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"The Last Musketeer is a pacey, intelligent and very topical thriller about trust and betrayal within a group of friends, with a rattling, high-stakes plot that tantalises until the very end.”

Kate Saunders, Costa prize-winning novelist and Sunday Times book reviewer

The Last Musketeer is imbued, right to its complex core, with Jane Corbett’s feeling for the wild places of Ireland that she has grown to know and love. She has the wonderful ability to make the dramatically unfolding dynamic of Fela’s discoveries find their own metaphor in the theatrically dramatic beauty of the land she’s returned to.

Barry Devlin, writer of My Mother and Other Strangers