Drawing on his thirty years of nursing experience, mainly in critical care, nurse-author Timothy Sheard has written a gritty, realistic crime novel about life in a big-city hospital. His characters are lively, his pacing is swift, and his narrative captures the pressures and conflicts that break out when death is always near. In this case, death has a helping hand in the form of a calculating killer with a sardonic sense of humor. How else to explain the murderer's bizarre method for disposing of the first victim? The police are satisfied with their suspect, a hot-tempered laundry worker, but his co-workers don't buy it. They enlist the help of their union steward, Lenny Moss, a jailhouse lawyer who is used to interviewing reluctant witnesses and arguing hopeless cases. With his friends joining the investigation, Lenny comes face to face with the killer, only to contemplate his own death in the process.

With the James Madison University Hospital board of directors desperately seeking a new revenue stream, an egomaniacal surgeon attempts a reckless new procedure that promises to bring millions of dollars to the hospital and international fame to the physician. But the body of a lovely pharmaceutical representative has been found in a patient’s bed, threatening to ruin the hospital’s reputation and shatter its financial security. Lenny Moss, custodian and union rep for the hospital workers, is determined to solve the mystery and bring the killer to justice despite the frenzied work pace and inhuman hours he and his co-workers are enduring, as their jobs and one man's freedom hang in the balance.From the operating table to the pharmacist's desk, from the emergency room to the human resources office, Sheard's vividly drawn characters map out the anatomy of a crime with the discerning eyes of the finest clinician and the dogged determination of a master detective. Battling indifferent hospital policymakers every step of the way, the nurses, aides, critical care workers, secretaries, and morgue attendants of James Madison University Hospital prove that unity in the face of danger can defeat even the most cunning criminal.

In the midst of a brutal heatwave, hospital workers and medical students are outraged at the death of a young woman following a botched abortion. They say the cold-blooded Dr. Odom is guilty of murder. But the bosses defend the doctor, putting Lenny Moss at the center of the conflict. As laundry workers pass out from the heat, a brutal murder sends Lenny down a new path that may lead to his termination form the job. And his life.

After a midnight phone call pulls Lenny Moss into another murder investigation, the wily hospital custodian-shop steward must confront the darkest hour of his life when he realizes that even a life long friend may turn out to be his mortal enemy.

The nurses at James Madison Hospital are afraid… Too many of their patients are dying from unexpected cardiac arrests. The nurses fear that a serial killer could be roaming the hospital. But when they share their suspicions with the Director of Nursing, she orders them to keep their mouths shut or they will be fired. So the nurses turn for help to Lenny Moss – custodian, shop steward and...Detective! But Lenny has problems of his own. His last murder investigation nearly killed him. The post traumatic stress from a brutal attack has our union champion turning away from his friends, his family and his passion for the fight for justice. Even the threat from a merciless hedge fund CEO to buy the hospital, turn it private and kick out the union hasn’t roused Lenny to join the struggle. Feeling beaten and hopeless, he just wants to be left alone to do his job. Will the murderer keep on killing? Will Lenny turn his back on his friends and family and the union he's devoted his life to serving? Find out in the exciting new Lenny Moss crime novel, No Place To Be Sick.

When a hospital puts profits before patients, it’s only a matter of time before the sick begin to die… Lenny Moss and his friends at James Madison Hospital are in the fight of their lives. The new hospital president, Robert “Third Reich” Reichart, has turned the hospital into a for-profit facility and launched a campaign to decertify the union. If successful, the decertification drive will destroy the union and devastate patient care. Staffing levels will be slashed, and most of the services will be outsourced to private companies. In the midst of his fight to save the union, Lenny learns that a troubled coworker has died under suspicious circumstances. Was it suicide…or murder? With the bosses threatening to close the hospital if their slash & burn policies are not accepted, and with the police pressuring him to help investigate the mysterious death, Lenny faces his most difficult challenge. This time it’s personal.

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.

Climate change has brought a new, aggressive Zika virus to Philadelphia, making pregnant women fearful they will become infected, and overloading the hospital with a crush of frightened patients. Pregnant nurses at James Madison Hospital beg to be relieved from caring for patients with the virus, but Mother Burgess, the Director of Nursing, refuses. The nurses turn to wily shop steward Lenny Moss for help joining his service workers union. But when Rachel Austin, a popular family practice physician, is brutally attacked, Lenny Moss must investigate, all too aware that a killer is roaming the hospital.

When two LGBT hospital workers are denied paid parental leave for their newborn children, militant shop steward Lenny Moss takes up the fight for equal rights. Their union contract’s guidelines for paid leave, written before gay/lesbian marriage was legal in Pennsylvania, only requires unpaid leave. As the union mobilizes community support for LGBT rights, Lenny agrees to try and help a nurse who was fired when a patient under her care mysteriously disappeared. Did the patient elope, was she abducted, or was she murdered?