If you want to get lost in a book, Ed Ruggero's Blame the Dead (#900) is a good choice. Set in a mobile Army hospital on the front lines during the Allies' invasion of Sicily, MP Eddie Harkins is exhausted from breaking up traffic jams and guarding enemy POWs. When he's flagged down while passing a field hospital on his way to a much-deserved rest, he never expects to find himself embroiled in a murder.
Back in Philadelphia, he was a beat cop, but he's the best available option for the badly understaffed hospital. Pressed into service investigating the murder of a surgeon during an air raid, he begins asking questions somebody doesn't want answered. Nurse Donnelly, an old friend from the neighborhood back home, fills in some of the missing blanks for him. The more he finds out, the more questions he has about how the unit is run, and who had the most to gain by the murder.
It is, as the cover blurb claims, "Riveting". While I was glued to the book, my husband was busy researching trips to Sicily for a time when travel for pleasure might be possible again, rather than just from your armchair, it was that engaging. This is Ed Ruggero's first work of fiction. I certainly hope it's not his last!
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