TWICE DEAD is the first of a series of mysteries featuring a nurse sleuth by Eleanor Sullivan published by Hilliard & Harris.  When Monika Everhardt, head nurse of the intensive care unit at St. Teresa’s Hospital, learns that a young woman who bled to death following an abortion was never pregnant, she sets out to find out why the woman died. 

Did the new nurse assigned to care for the woman abandon her?  Why didn’t the staff physician who volunteers at the only remaining abortion clinic in the city recognize the woman when he admitted her?  Where was her husband—an Army Ranger supposedly away for training—when she was killed?

As the family threatens to sue and the hospital grapples with financial problems and anti-abortion protesters, a bomb threat becomes increasingly real.  Fearing for the safety of her patients and the reputation of her staff, Monika is drawn into a personal quest to uncover the truth.