His intimate view of Lenny's world is a gentle
eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a
workingman's perspective.
Marilyn Stasio, New York Times.
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eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a
workingman's perspective.
Marilyn Stasio, New York Times.
FULL REVIEW BELOW
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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.''
New York Times, Marilyn Stasio
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.''
New York Times, Marilyn Stasio
In This Won't Hurt A Bit, the first Lenny Moss novel, the hospital workers come to Lenny,
their union steward, for help. Hot-headed laundry worker Regis Devoe has been arrested
for murdering a young doctor. The two were seen arguing, and Devoe threatened the
physician. When Lenny protests that he's not a lawyer, his best friend Moose Maddox
says, "You got to find out who killed the doc."
Lenny works with the many unseen and unappreciated hospital workers to gather the
clues and figure out who the real killer is. Along the way he struggles with his grief over
his wife, who died from cancer a year before. Is it a betrayal to try loving another woman?
The hospital is a scary place, with buried secrets as cold and dark as the morgue. It's the
perfect place to dispose of a body, and the killer has found a brilliant method of doing just
that.
Out of print since Creative Arts, the publisher, went out of business, you can still buy
this book online or by phone from Union Communications. Click on the link below to
view their site and type in SHEARD in the search window.
Union communications
their union steward, for help. Hot-headed laundry worker Regis Devoe has been arrested
for murdering a young doctor. The two were seen arguing, and Devoe threatened the
physician. When Lenny protests that he's not a lawyer, his best friend Moose Maddox
says, "You got to find out who killed the doc."
Lenny works with the many unseen and unappreciated hospital workers to gather the
clues and figure out who the real killer is. Along the way he struggles with his grief over
his wife, who died from cancer a year before. Is it a betrayal to try loving another woman?
The hospital is a scary place, with buried secrets as cold and dark as the morgue. It's the
perfect place to dispose of a body, and the killer has found a brilliant method of doing just
that.
Out of print since Creative Arts, the publisher, went out of business, you can still buy
this book online or by phone from Union Communications. Click on the link below to
view their site and type in SHEARD in the search window.
Union communications
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