Books by Timothy Sheard

Pregnant nurses at James Madison Hospital beg to be relieved from caring for patients with the Zika virus that is raging through a hot Philadelphia summer. But Mother Burgess, the Director of Nursing refuses. So the nurses turn to Lenny Moss for help joining his service workers union. But Lenny has his hands full investigating repeated attempts to murder Rachel Austin, a popular doctor. As the epidemic overloads the hospital with cases, and the administration retaliates against the nurses who are leading the union campaign, a killer roams the facility with murder in his heart.

A nurse accused of the wrongful death of her patient swears she is innocent, but the only one who believes her is a co-worker, who enlists the help of James Madision's fearless union steward and amateur detective, Lenny Moss.But Lenny has his hands full — The Croesus Medical Group, the new hospital owner, is threatening to withdraw contributions to the union's health and pension benefit fund. If they stop making payments, the fund will become insolvent and all the workers, active and retired, will lose their benefits. For many of them, it would be a death sentence.Fighting the new administration, Lenny barely has time to investigate the mysterious death — until he finds himself with more time on his hands that he ever expected to have in the 7th exciting Lenny Moss mystery.This Won’t Hurt A Bit "Since there’s no merit to the case against the laundry worker to begin with, Lenny is just wasting his time. But Sheard, a veteran nurse, makes sure that readers do not waste theirs. His intimate view of Lenny’s world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman’s perspective." New York Times Some Cuts Never Heal "This well-plotted page-turner is guaranteed to scare the bejesus out out of anyone anticipating a hospital stay anytime in the near future." Publishers Weekly