A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery: Volume 6 - Softcover

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 compromise patient care. Staffing levels will be slashed, and half the departments will be outsourced to private companies. In the midst of his struggle 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 with the investigation, Lenny faces his most difficult case. This time, it’s personal.

Tim Sheard is a veteran critical care and infectious disease nurse, the author of seven crime novels, an organizer with the National Writers Union, and founder of Hard Ball Press, the imprint that publishes working class stories. Tim has provided workshops to unions and colleges, where working people develop their story-telling skills and learn how to publish them. He believes that unions and grass roots organizations need to nurture and publish working class writers in order to fight for a fair share of the economic pie, and to counter the anti-working class narratives of the One Percent.