LENNY MOSS IS THE SHOP STEWARD WHO SOLVES CRIMES!
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? Find out in the latest and most compelling Lenny Moss mystery yet!
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HEALTH CARE WORKERS: In One Foot in the Grave, released in 2019, the outbreak of a virulent, highly infectious strain of Zika virus leaves hospitals - guess what - short of N95 masks, isolation gowns and, negative pressure rooms, So a crafty hospital engineer and a wily ID doctor come up with a creative solution: they install consumer-grade window fans in the windows of patient rooms, creating instant isolation rooms.
Sheard somehow foreshadowed the horrific Covid-19 pandemic in this gripping crime novel. Price: $17.00
"As One Foot in the Grave unfolds its crime plot, the action takes on a brisk pace, making this book a great beach-vacation read. You don't have to be a union member to enjoy the ride, but activists will get a special kick from Lenny Moss and his stalwart co-workers." ~Steve Thornton, Phillylabor.com
Sheard somehow foreshadowed the horrific Covid-19 pandemic in this gripping crime novel. Price: $17.00
"As One Foot in the Grave unfolds its crime plot, the action takes on a brisk pace, making this book a great beach-vacation read. You don't have to be a union member to enjoy the ride, but activists will get a special kick from Lenny Moss and his stalwart co-workers." ~Steve Thornton, Phillylabor.com
THIS WON'T HURT A BIT: The 1st Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
When a hot-tempered laundry worker is wrongly arrested for murdering a physician, angry hospital workers ask their union steward to set the man free. How can he do it? By tracking down the real killer. So Lenny Moss begins his first murder investigation, aided by his friends in dietary, nursing, laundry, housekeeping and medicine.
New York Times "Things get off to a macabre start in Timothy Sheard's offbeat procedural... 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...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 "Things get off to a macabre start in Timothy Sheard's offbeat procedural... 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...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."
SOME CUTS NEVER HEAL: The 2nd Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
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."
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."
A RACE AGAINST DEATH: The 3rd Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
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."
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."
SLIM TO NONE: The 4th Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
A midnight phone call pulls Lenny into a case where he 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.
Earl Silbar, AFSCME Steward, Chicago: "Here's a great read, a complicated mystery, good friends, comradeship in hard times, and union workers shown in full humanity."
Ray Walsh, Curious Book Reviews: "Laced with dark humor and told with an insider's knowledge, this fast-paced, nifty paperback is the best yet in the series."
Pride & A Paycheck: “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!’”
Earl Silbar, AFSCME Steward, Chicago: "Here's a great read, a complicated mystery, good friends, comradeship in hard times, and union workers shown in full humanity."
Ray Walsh, Curious Book Reviews: "Laced with dark humor and told with an insider's knowledge, this fast-paced, nifty paperback is the best yet in the series."
Pride & A Paycheck: “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!’”
NO PLACE TO BE SICK: The 5th Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
Union steward & hospital custodian Lenny Moss leads his coworkers in the fight to save their hospital and to stop a serial killer stalking the wards. In the fifth and latest Lenny Moss novel by Timothy Sheard, the nurses at James Madison Hospital fear that a psychopath is killing their patients. But when they report their concerns, the Director of Nursing threatens to fire them if they tell anyone of their suspicions. So they go for help to Lenny Moss, custodian, union steward and detective. But Lenny was so traumatized during his last case, all he wants is to be left alone to do his work. So the nurses decide to investigate the killer themselves.
"The book does such a wonderful job of showing workers uniting to fight for justice that several unions have used his books for steward training. Find out if Lenny and his friends win their battles in this roller coaster of a book." - UNION COMMUNICATIONS:
"There's enough suspense, fear and chills running up and down your spine to make you keep on reading it in one fell swoop. Watch your back if you're alone in the house!" Sue Doro, Pride & A Paycheck
"The book does such a wonderful job of showing workers uniting to fight for justice that several unions have used his books for steward training. Find out if Lenny and his friends win their battles in this roller coaster of a book." - UNION COMMUNICATIONS:
"There's enough suspense, fear and chills running up and down your spine to make you keep on reading it in one fell swoop. Watch your back if you're alone in the house!" Sue Doro, Pride & A Paycheck
A BITTER PILL: The 6th Lenny Moss Mystery by Tim Sheard - $17.00
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 decerti- fication drive will destroy the union and devastate patient care.
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 the police pressuring him to help investigate the mysterious death, Lenny faces his most difficult challenge.
"..a short, fast, tight book, giving us what we like best about Lenny Moss, hospital custodian and union steward." UALE Digest
"This is a great book for labor studies students who want to experience the intensity of a big fight vicariously but realistically. The piling-on of stressors culminates in a happy ending when Lenny finally gets a night's sleep." Helena Worthen.
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 decerti- fication drive will destroy the union and devastate patient care.
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 the police pressuring him to help investigate the mysterious death, Lenny faces his most difficult challenge.
"..a short, fast, tight book, giving us what we like best about Lenny Moss, hospital custodian and union steward." UALE Digest
"This is a great book for labor studies students who want to experience the intensity of a big fight vicariously but realistically. The piling-on of stressors culminates in a happy ending when Lenny finally gets a night's sleep." Helena Worthen.
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. Price $17.00 Print) $5.99 (E-book)
Bill Hohlfield, Labor Press “The setting, characters and dialogue are so realistic, you feel as though you have walked down the halls of James Madison Hospital and met the folks who work there… This is a book about working people who, when faced with a challenge, draw deep down on a reserve of strength and intelligence that…enables them to stay afloat amidst a rising tide comprised of social and economic waves of adversity.”
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. Price $17.00 Print) $5.99 (E-book)
Bill Hohlfield, Labor Press “The setting, characters and dialogue are so realistic, you feel as though you have walked down the halls of James Madison Hospital and met the folks who work there… This is a book about working people who, when faced with a challenge, draw deep down on a reserve of strength and intelligence that…enables them to stay afloat amidst a rising tide comprised of social and economic waves of adversity.”