Book Review: Assumed Dead

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

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Eleanor Sullivan
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Medical   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth
Series: Monika Everhardt # 3
Hilliard and Harris, Paperback, 2006, 220 pages, $16.95

Monika Everhardt is an ICU nurse. She ends up involved in two separate cases in this book. First there's a John Doe from a car accident. Second there's a woman who had her head bashed in. Both are in the ICU.

A friend asks Monika to help figure out the identity of John Doe because her mother is convinced he's her long lost son. The police ask Monika's help in figuring out who bashed in the head of the woman.

Plus Monika is continuing to look into the death of her husband in Vietnam.

As she digs deeper into each mystery, the trail takes her from taverns to convents. It even leads back to 9/11. Often the past and the present combine in her quest for the truth.

Can she solve each of these mysteries? Will she like what she finds out about her husband?

This is the second book I've read in this three-book series. I can't wait for the next one. I find them to be page turners but definitely cozy suspense. The author has done a great job creating wonderful supporting people in and out of the hospital for Monika. I like the hospital setting.

I highly recommend this book and series.

Dawn Dowdle

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