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Mountain Crossing

What if your dreams were warning you about the future?
Investigative reporter Jack Kendall can’t escape the visions—
a mountain, a battle, and a mysterious woman in white leading him down.
Then his wife disappears.
Becky isn’t just missing.
She’s trapped inside a dangerous international cocaine trafficking ring stretching from Florida to the jungles of Jamaica.
Now Jack must follow the clues—and the dreams—into a world of drug lords, betrayal, and deadly secrets.
Because the woman in white might be leading him somewhere.
Or warn him it’s already too late.
Mountain Crossing—The first Jack Kendall Mystery.
Follow Jack in Becky, Bone Valley, Nokomis Hospital, and next in Breakthrough Lies
Pursue the Truth,
Jay B. Greene

Nokomis Hospital: A Jack Kendall Mystery, Book Four

The Truth Is Sick
Nokomis Hospital
A New Jack Kendall Mystery
Corruption runs deep at Nokomis Hospital.
And those responsible will do anything to hide it.
Florida, Fall 1984.
When investigative reporter Jack Kendall rushes his pregnant wife, Bobbie, into Nokomis Hospital, he expects what anyone would—a well-run community facility serving a quiet coastal town in Sarasota County.
What he finds instead is a hospital already in crisis.
Supplies are missing. Staffing is dangerously thin. Money is hemorrhaging through accounts no one can fully explain. And beneath it all, fear hangs in the air—unspoken, but unmistakable.
As Bobbie fights for her life after a sudden case of eclampsia and an emergency delivery of their twins, Jack begins asking questions. What starts as concern turns into reporting. And reporting turns into something far darker.
The truth, Jack discovers, is sick.
A Hospital Being Drained Dry
Behind closed doors, Nokomis Hospital CEO Mike Lard and his inner circle have been quietly bleeding the institution dry.
Embezzlement.
Kickbacks.
Drug abuse.
Fraudulent contracts.
Shell companies.
Foundation transfers.
Missing millions.
And now a proposed merger—pitched as salvation—that threatens to bury every crime inside a larger corporate balance sheet.
Jack thinks he’s following the money.
He’s wrong.
Because Lard isn’t just stealing. He’s protecting himself. And when protection becomes desperation, intimidation follows.
The Whistleblowers Who Refuse to Look Away
Jack isn’t alone.
Inside the hospital, two insiders decide the truth is worth the risk.
Nicole McIntosh, the vice president of nursing, sees patient care sacrificed to greed.
Terry Myles, a young accountant, follows the numbers to places they were never meant to lead.
They know what they’re up against.
They know what happens to people who speak out.
And when threats begin—when fear turns physical—they understand there may not be a second chance to set things right.
This Is Not Fiction Dressed Up as Fact
Nokomis Hospital is fiction—but it is fiction rooted in reality.
The pressures of the early 1980s healthcare system.
Medicare’s new DRG reimbursement model.
Deregulation.
Cost-cutting disguised as efficiency.
Hospitals pushed to behave like corporations, and executives who treat patient care as collateral damage.
This story draws on decades of investigative reporting and real systems that continue to fail patients today.
Inside a Newsroom Where Truth Has Consequences
This is also a novel about journalism—how real investigative reporting actually works.
Jack Kendall doesn’t chase headlines. He builds cases.
Interviews are careful.
Documents are verified and reverified.
Sources are corroborated—or dropped.
Editors push back hard.
Lawyers scrutinize every sentence.
Publishers weigh public interest against legal risk.
Meetings stretch late into the night as the newsroom debates not just what can be published—but what must be published.
When the presses finally roll, the truth no longer belongs to Jack.
It belongs to the public.
The Story Begins in an Emergency Room
At the center of it all is Bobbie Kendall—a veteran police reporter who understands journalism as deeply as Jack does.
She believes in the work.
She believes in the mission.
She believes the truth matters.
But belief doesn’t erase fear.
As Bobbie recovers from a traumatic delivery and learns to care for two fragile newborns, Jack’s investigation accelerates. Whistleblowers come forward. Threats escalate. Trials loom. Arrests follow.
For weeks in the hospital—and months afterward at home—Bobbie lives in the overlap between personal trauma and public truth, supporting the story while quietly reckoning with what it means to have the most intimate moment of her life entwined with a scandal shaking an entire community.
Nokomis Hospital is not just about exposing corruption.
It’s about the human cost of telling the truth—and the families who live with the consequences long after the headlines fade.

Where the River Runs Red

Wow! Quite a list...I cannot believe that not one of Chris Carter or Chelsea Cain`s books are listed :-(

What a monster list to choose from.