In an earlier blog entry I mentioned Eleanor Sullivan's "virtual book tour" for her novel Deadly Diversion and said I'd post a review when I'd read the book. Medical mysteries aren't usually my thing, though I do enjoy the Diagnosis Murder books by Lee Goldberg. Now I can add the Monika Everhardt series by Eleanor Sullivan to that short list. Everhardt is the head nurse in an intensive care unit, a place where a natural death isn't entirely unlikely.
But murder is another story. In Deadly Diversion a cancer patient who's scheduled to talk to the cops about a murder that occurred a long time back dies of respiratory arrest. Turns out that maybe the patient was murdered himself, and suspicion falls on the nurse who was assigned to care for him. Everhardt steps in and finds herself in quite a tangle of murder, hospital politics, and more. The writing's good, and the mystery's an intriguing one. The characters are very well done, possibly because Eleanor Sullivan is a nurse herself (there's an interesting story about that right here). She knows her way around a hospital and its staff, and she knows people. Deadly Diversion is recommended reading. Check it out.
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