Assumed Dead (Paperback)

Head nurse, Monika Everhardt tries to discover the identity of a John Doe, a patient admitted unconscious to the intensive care unit at St. Teresa's Hospital. After a photo of the man appears in the newspaper, an older woman comes forward, identifying the man as her son thought killed in the World Trade Center bombing on 9/11. But the woman's daughter disagrees, believing her mother is mistaken, denying her son's death because no remains were ever found. Monika's calls in her friend, a St. Louis police officer, to help identify the patient, but B.J. tells her the cops are more interested in finding out who viciously attacked a newly-remarried widow, also in intensive care. The police suspect the woman's new husband tried to kill his wife for money also connected to 9/11. Is it coincidence or has a horrifying event set more terrible events in motion?