Sorry about being away

It has been along time since my last post. I am sorry, but I was recovering from a medical problem. And then I forgot my password for this darn blog. But Dr. Muttnick remember it, and so here we are.


In the interim, I have completed the murder mystery novel 4 Deaths, 2 Heart Attacks and a Stroke ... Then the Fatal Blow. My thanks goes out to the small critiquing group for making the story better than I could have written alone. They are christened Team Mutt. 


The manuscript is looking for representation as we speak or as you read. 


The main character is Dr. Madison Muttnick, an orthopedic surgeon who sees the evil in his community and wants to remove it. He believes the well spring of that evil is the VP of Medical Affairs at his hospital, Dr. Judas Ninestine. He plans to kill him and accept the consequences, in what he believes is a noble gesture.
Before he can act, another persons completes the task. However, with a taped phone threat from Mutt and the doc's blood on the murder victim, the prime suspect becomes the Mad Mutt. He must defend himself against the murder charge, so he investigates the real NJ boys, the Zambone Construction Co., and the administration of his hospital, which is heavily involved in No-Bell Billing. The No-bell enterprise is woven through out his hospital supplying security guards, as well as ancillary support for coding, billing and record keeping. He concludes the cause of his dying practice is No-Bell's involvement in patient referrals as they present to the Emergency Room of his hospital. 
His old enemy detective Jahn Grabowski is in charge of the murder investigation. And the FBI is investigating the construction business which dovetails into an investigation of Mutt and his Atlantic City visits. The money he wins, disappears, never banked and never declared.   
During this situation, his estranged daughter Pam appears on his doorstep with a grandson he never knew about. Divorced from a man Mutt never met, she finds him living with Rosemary Angelucci, Tink, who is barely older than his daughter, Pam. The four of them live in Mutt's Spring Lake shore home under an uneasy truce.   
The CEO of the hospital dies of cardiac arrest while talking in a closed room with Dr. Muttnick. Grabowski suspects and hopes he has the doctor for two murders. He arrests him and Dr. Muttnick is arraigned with Pam as his lawyer. For bail he puts up the shore home as collateral. 


If you are interested in how it ends, then follow this blog for events when and if this story is published. 
In the mean time, I am returning to the computer as the second in the Dr. Madison Muttnick series is rattling through my brain pan and echoing into an outline that will see him investigate the murder of one of his friends who is a physician on staff. 


Thanks for visiting my blog. 
This piece wasn't written by Tink or Mutt, but the originator, progenitor of Madison Muttnick MD.
They will be back later to write for you soon.