Synopses

Martha and the Vandellas sang, “Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide.” That Motown song could have been composed for the desperate Dr. Matt Drummond, who, in 1968, is running. He never thought it would come to this. He only wanted to learn to be a good doctor — and to work in an underserved area to keep himself out of the Vietnam War. His internship began in the inner city on July 24, day one of the 1967 Detroit riot. The Nam would have been a safer destination.

He finds himself pursued by Detroit Homicide, who believe he is responsible for the abortion death of a policewoman, and by rogue police officers who fear he knows the true story behind the murders at the Algiers Motel. They need him just as dead.

His only hope comes from the Detroit underworld. Mr. Vic — a fight fixer, racehorse doper, and numbers czar — can get him into Canada and then Ireland, but he must follow orders. Ireland's Troubles will become his troubles.

He is a fugitive from an apocalyptic year of urban violence, police brutality, racism, misogyny, the Vietnam War, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. His plight is really that of 1968 America. There was nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide.

Detroit Heroic was published September 15, 2026 by Heliotrope Books.

A collection of medical stories that examines ethical dilemmas, moral courage, and human dignity through the eyes of physicians working in unforgiving environments. The stories are bound by the tension between medical ethics and institutional pressure — patient care against profit — and the human cost of administrative decisions and systemic failure.

Across the collection, doctors and nurses commit quiet acts of moral courage, often at personal cost, on behalf of patients the system would rather forget. A new intern faces a dangerously understaffed hospital; a physician fights to protect a dying patient's dignity; healthcare workers confront racial violence during the 1967 Detroit riots.

Kroneman draws on a long career in Detroit medicine — his patients and colleagues inspiring the themes — to tell good stories while exposing the lasting psychological toll medicine exacts on those who practice it.

A collection of stories and essays celebrating the unselfish dedication of nurses — medicine's first responders and its unsung backbone. Drawing on decades at the bedside, Kroneman turns his eye to the people who do the hardest, least-credited work in the hospital, and who, again and again, are the difference between life and death.

By turns funny, unsparing, and moving, these stories honor the skill, grit, and compassion of the nursing profession while shining a light on the pressures that a computer- and bureaucrat-driven healthcare system places on the people at the front line of care.