Lenny convinces his co-workers to pretend there's a live patient in an empty
bed, just to give them a break for a few hours. Big mistake. When the joke
backfires, Lenny and his friends face termination if he can't find the killer who
put the joke on him.
Publishers Weekly This well-plotted page-turner is guaranteed to scare the
bejesus out of anyone anticipating a hospital stay anytime in the near future."
LIBRARY JOURNAL Sheard provides realistic details of hospital routine and
budget-cutting politics. Other bonuses are polished prose and elements of
warmth and humor. Strongly recommended for most mystery collections.
Rocky Mountain News If your pulse quickens for ER on Thursday nights,
you'll want a dose of Timothy Sheard's medicine in Some Cuts Never Heal.
The well-meaning, hard-working hospital folks will warm your heart, while
the cold realities of modern medical care will raise your blood pressure and
keep you turning the pages.
bed, just to give them a break for a few hours. Big mistake. When the joke
backfires, Lenny and his friends face termination if he can't find the killer who
put the joke on him.
Publishers Weekly This well-plotted page-turner is guaranteed to scare the
bejesus out of anyone anticipating a hospital stay anytime in the near future."
LIBRARY JOURNAL Sheard provides realistic details of hospital routine and
budget-cutting politics. Other bonuses are polished prose and elements of
warmth and humor. Strongly recommended for most mystery collections.
Rocky Mountain News If your pulse quickens for ER on Thursday nights,
you'll want a dose of Timothy Sheard's medicine in Some Cuts Never Heal.
The well-meaning, hard-working hospital folks will warm your heart, while
the cold realities of modern medical care will raise your blood pressure and
keep you turning the pages.
Dr. Odom, a brutal surgeon, is butchering young black women while the
administration looks the other way. When angry workers turn to Lenny for
help, he teams up with a fiery medical student who leads the Black Medical
Students League to strike a blow for justice, only to discover new depths of
depravity that neither had ever imagined.
Mysteries Galore Timothy Sheard provides a delightful hospital investigative
tale that grips readers from the moment that Dr. Singh and his team apply
CPR, but fail.
A Critical Mystery Tour Timothy Sheard takes his crime into the not so
antiseptic wards and ICUs of a hospital where a surgeon can be a medical
maniac and a maintenance man can be the investigator/hero.
Lansing City Pulse His mystery series is deeply infused with his respect for
the working man and the labor movement
The Hub Sheard has created an intriguing crime novel with a likable,
hard-working and unusual detective who challenges authority figures,
stands up for the little guy...
administration looks the other way. When angry workers turn to Lenny for
help, he teams up with a fiery medical student who leads the Black Medical
Students League to strike a blow for justice, only to discover new depths of
depravity that neither had ever imagined.
Mysteries Galore Timothy Sheard provides a delightful hospital investigative
tale that grips readers from the moment that Dr. Singh and his team apply
CPR, but fail.
A Critical Mystery Tour Timothy Sheard takes his crime into the not so
antiseptic wards and ICUs of a hospital where a surgeon can be a medical
maniac and a maintenance man can be the investigator/hero.
Lansing City Pulse His mystery series is deeply infused with his respect for
the working man and the labor movement
The Hub Sheard has created an intriguing crime novel with a likable,
hard-working and unusual detective who challenges authority figures,
stands up for the little guy...
New York Times Review Things get off to a macabre start in Timothy
Sheard's offbeat procedural, THIS WON'T HURT A BIT (Creative Arts, paper,
$15.95), when a student at a Philadelphia teaching hospital identifies the
cadaver she is dissecting in anatomy class as a medical resident she once
slept with. Although hospital administrators are relieved when a troublesome
laundry worker is charged with the murder, outraged staff members go to
their union representative, a scrappy custodian named Lenny Moss, and ask
him to find the real killer.
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. ''The doctors and the supervisors don't hardly notice us,'' a
nurses' aide says of the orderlies, security guards, secretaries,
seamstresses and other ''invisible'' service workers who keep a hospital
humming. ''But we see everything.''
Marilyn Stasio
Sheard's offbeat procedural, THIS WON'T HURT A BIT (Creative Arts, paper,
$15.95), when a student at a Philadelphia teaching hospital identifies the
cadaver she is dissecting in anatomy class as a medical resident she once
slept with. Although hospital administrators are relieved when a troublesome
laundry worker is charged with the murder, outraged staff members go to
their union representative, a scrappy custodian named Lenny Moss, and ask
him to find the real killer.
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. ''The doctors and the supervisors don't hardly notice us,'' a
nurses' aide says of the orderlies, security guards, secretaries,
seamstresses and other ''invisible'' service workers who keep a hospital
humming. ''But we see everything.''
Marilyn Stasio
Who is that guy with the mop and the attitude - the real Lenny Moss? Many have inquired. Few have learned his secret. Like Clark
Kent, or maybe more like Jimmy Olsen, the man behind the legend is modest. Self-effacing. As humble as a Benedictine monk, and
as heavy a drinker.
He's a custodian who works in a big teaching hospital in Philadelphia. And he's a trouble-maker with a dash of
lunacy and several shots of the absurd. But his feet are firmly on the ground. He knows how the corrupt heart of the social system
can chew up a worker, drive him to drink or despair, or even suicide. It bothers him, and it makes him angry - the ceaseless
injustices; the sleights and humiliations; the put-downs and the let-downs. The built-in
bad deals dealt to blue collar men and women. That is why he fights every day.
A smart guy once said, there can be no fiction without real people to inspire the stories. Real heroes go about their work day after
day without expecting medals or parades or comic book depictions. They are the ones who stand shoulder to shoulder with a
co-worker, a friend, a neighbor. They are the ones who say, "Come on, you don't
have to put up with that kind of treatment. Let's deal with it."
The real life Lenny Moss never accepts the boss's first offer. He never gives in when a worker is abused. And when someone comes
to him for help, whether it's something that happened on the job or in their personal life, he does what he can to help. That's the real
Lenny.
And that is why he is loved by so many. That is why this author has tried to honor him with a fictional character who can tell his story,
because they are true stories of working men and women.
Long live Lenny Moss!
Kent, or maybe more like Jimmy Olsen, the man behind the legend is modest. Self-effacing. As humble as a Benedictine monk, and
as heavy a drinker.
He's a custodian who works in a big teaching hospital in Philadelphia. And he's a trouble-maker with a dash of
lunacy and several shots of the absurd. But his feet are firmly on the ground. He knows how the corrupt heart of the social system
can chew up a worker, drive him to drink or despair, or even suicide. It bothers him, and it makes him angry - the ceaseless
injustices; the sleights and humiliations; the put-downs and the let-downs. The built-in
bad deals dealt to blue collar men and women. That is why he fights every day.
A smart guy once said, there can be no fiction without real people to inspire the stories. Real heroes go about their work day after
day without expecting medals or parades or comic book depictions. They are the ones who stand shoulder to shoulder with a
co-worker, a friend, a neighbor. They are the ones who say, "Come on, you don't
have to put up with that kind of treatment. Let's deal with it."
The real life Lenny Moss never accepts the boss's first offer. He never gives in when a worker is abused. And when someone comes
to him for help, whether it's something that happened on the job or in their personal life, he does what he can to help. That's the real
Lenny.
And that is why he is loved by so many. That is why this author has tried to honor him with a fictional character who can tell his story,
because they are true stories of working men and women.
Long live Lenny Moss!
WHO IS THE REAL LENNY MOSS?
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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.
“A fast paced mystery with more than enough twists and turns to keep you
turning the page!” Grace Edwards, author of the Mali Anderson mysteries.
“In Slim to None, Tim Sheards' fourth and most exciting and unnerving Lenny
Moss mystery to date, you won’t be the only reader to say ‘Yes…Lenny should
have an action figure in his likeness!’” Sue Doro, author of Sugar String and
Blue Collar Goodbyes.
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.
“A fast paced mystery with more than enough twists and turns to keep you
turning the page!” Grace Edwards, author of the Mali Anderson mysteries.
“In Slim to None, Tim Sheards' fourth and most exciting and unnerving Lenny
Moss mystery to date, you won’t be the only reader to say ‘Yes…Lenny should
have an action figure in his likeness!’” Sue Doro, author of Sugar String and
Blue Collar Goodbyes.
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