Ron Looney Mystery

Patricia Harding is a young paralegal with aspirations for law school. When she passes out and nearly dies at work, the medical staff at New City Hospital is at a loss for the cause of the otherwise healthy woman's conditions. Soon after, the staff is stunned by a well-respected cardiologist's sudden death while he is on the job. These two seemingly unrelated events lead the chief of staff to call on homicide Detective Ron Looney to investigate. Death Unexpected is a hospital-based murder mystery that provides an intimate glimpse into the minds and daily lives of medical staff. As Detective Looney and others seek to crack the case, the narrative reveals author G.L. Barbour's expertise and experience in the medical field. For listeners hoping for a suspense-filled novel that will also enlighten, Death Unexpected does not disappoint.

Someone may be trying to kill an old homeless man on the streets of Cincinnati. Or is he just having some really bad luck? New City Hospital third year resident Ben Nealy tries to persuade his professors of the former and finally gets attention from Tom Bolling, chief of staff. Tom is a retired Air Force general whose daily activities involve him in quality of care issues beset by tradition. When he gets involved in Ben's case he draws in an old friend, former Air Force Criminal Investigator Ron Looney to help identify the old man. At that point, the case becomes deeper and more sinister than ever.

A prominent surgeon at New City Hospital in Cincinnati undergoes serious upheaval in his life, including losing a patient and his operating privileges and endangering the hospital's accreditation status and academic affiliation. When he also loses his research funding he accuses his chairman and Tom Bolling, chief of staff, of ruining his career. He storms out of the hospital and goes missing. Then, the head of research is brutally murdered and suspicion falls on the missing surgeon. The bodies of other individuals who have troubled relations with the surgeon begin to pile up. The primary investigator, Detective Ron 'Walker' Looney is a retired Air Force criminal investigator and long-time friend of Tom Bolling. Together with a former medical examiner, they piece together a credible case against the missing surgeon. But that case is later blown apart when evidence proves otherwise. Only when another attack occurs with no obvious connection to the surgeon do the police get on the right track. When they discover another assault is planned at the Great American Baseball Park, they must race against time to prevent a murder.

When a man is found dead - and naked - in New City Hospital and is unidentified, the chief of staff calls his friend, Ron Looney, Homicide detective to assist in solving the case. Looney's pursuit of the facts leads him and his partner, Gene Novalchek to encounter violations of hospital procedures, a major corruption scheme in Cincinnati and an intricate attempt at murder. At stake are individual lives, public reputations and a large sum of money. The detectives have to widen their perceptions of complexity and their geographic responsibilities to solve the murder and bring the culprits to justice.