Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

It seems a routine case for Dr. Bill Brockton, the exhumation of a body to obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But a shocking discovery awaits Brockton and his colleagues when the coffin is opened: the corpse inside has been horribly...

Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were once Naval Academy roommates. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter...

A story about the audacious challenge to defeat one of our greatest socio-economic threats - Alzheimer's disease - and how the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry rise to face it. The pressure and enormous stakes of the Race for the Mind expose the...

When Dr. Ken Turner and his colleagues decide to search for rumored half-human, half-chimpanzee creatures, they get more than they bargained for. Now, with time running out, Ken must risk his career and life to find and protect these creatures before a group of...

Twenty million in diamonds missing.Kate Sawyer, a cop in witness protection, holds the key.If she could only remember. Early-onset Alzheimer's clouds the past. Stem cell therapy is working to clear it.But time is running out for Kate.One night she finds a dead man in...

The 1st installment of Shojai's dark, female-driven domestic thriller series featuring pet-centric plots: A young woman races a Texas blizzard to save her autistic nephew from a deadly secret others will kill to protect--and the service dog she's trained finds his true purpose, when...

J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. But with a secret out in the open and the election all but lost, J.J. and Jack have to figure out how to work together while their marriage is torn...

A SCALPEL WIELDING VILLAIN. A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT FAILS.A WHISTLEBLOWER THAT PROTECTS HER PATIENTS - NO MATTER THE COSTS.Trusted anesthesiologist, Dr. Roxanne Roth, is healing from the loss of her fiancé by consuming her time with work. It doesn't hurt that her new love...

Quietus est ... he is quit.There is no such thing as an ending, just a new beginning.Throughout the millennia, extinction has been the norm and survival, the exception.When faced with the hour of departure, will mankind fight to survive?NOT ONLY WAS THERE A PATIENT...

Judith 'Jude" Avery, Chicago M.E. is suffering an irrational fear of a haunting voice in her head-calling out her name. She senses it is a harbinger of something or someone wicked coming her way. Work alone fends off this fear, so when her fellow...

" Medical suspense as sharp as it gets. Euliano is off to a good, no, a brilliant start." -- Kathy Reichs, New York Times best-selling author End-of-life care-- or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist...

With FIELD OF GRAVES, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began... All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops...

They attack with impunity, and without prejudice.Their goal - to destroy you, from within.A merciless enemy, just one-billionth our size.WELCOME TO THE NEXT GLOBAL WARThe international bestselling medical thriller series from author Bobby Akart which formed the basis for an entire semester's course study...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this riveting novel from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver doctor and a detective face the deadly consequences of the opioid crisis as they track down the supplier of fentanyl that landed a group of teens in the ER...

The President's only child is dying. Terrorists claim to have the cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway-but she doesn't expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery...

Peering over the side of the boat, the glare of early morning sun catches on something pale in the inky water. The boy's curious fingertips break the surface, pulling up a tangle of long blonde hair from the reeds below...The discovery of a young...

A killer known as The Reaper is tasked to carry out a mission at Experiment Labs.However, with a fateful encounter, his world would never be the same.Author: Jj DizzISBN-10: 108792331XISBN-13: 9781087923314Publisher: Jj DizzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2022Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.37w x 1.07d

"Every Third Night" is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984. It brings the reader into the real world of medicine at a time of limited...

What happens when two young women from different socioeconomic worlds meet and discover they have one common trait? Their friendship blossoms and they discover each other's hidden goals and secrets. A diabolical plan to accomplish each other's goals goes horribly wrong. What happens as...

A tsunami strikes a small island in the Pacific Ocean, leaving destruction and utter madness in its wake. Is it the next pandemic? After the natural disaster, CDC epidemiologist Dr. Madeline Hamilton and her fiancé, FBI operative Quinn Traynor, go to Nalowale Island to...

A desperate family confronts the mysteries that lie between life and death in this soul-gripping novel of supernatural suspense by Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice.Claire Huntley and her brother, Poe, were on a midnight hike in Montana when the...

Examining the dead will help her solve present crimes and uncover past secrets in this page-turner thriller for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Rizzoli and Isles.With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to...

A medical breakthrough. A greedy pharmaceutical magnate. A brutal double-murder. One tangled web of lies.World-renowned scientist, Professor K is close to a ground-breaking discovery. He's also dying. With his last breath, he anoints Dr Alexandra Delacroix his successor and pleads with her to carry...

Is there life after death? Is it even possible to know for sure? Dr. Emerick Sewell's book, a sensational account of his near death experience, had taken the world by storm when it was released. But when one of his readers overdosed on pills...

A chimera is an illusion, an idea of something that can never be. In mythology, the pseudo-creature has the head of a lion, body of a goat, and a serpent's tail spliced together into a freak of nature without a purpose or plan. Under...

Alexandra Destephano is hospital lawyer living in New Orleans who struggles, like all of us, to find her way. Life is tough. She's been hurt in love, deserted in life and left bruised and vulnerable. Violence in her hospital, terror in the streets and...

Alone, held captive, and left in the dark, a woman's worst fears come true in this gripping thriller by the award-winning author of Expose.San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman has spent eight years looking over her shoulder. Stalked by her vengeful ex-husband, Spencer, she's...

When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.Author: Monica StarkmanISBN-10: 1631520547ISBN-13: 9781631520549Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize:...

Life in a small town can take some interesting twists--especially for ER physician Dr. Rhea Lynch. When the chief coroner is shot in a hail of gunfire that leaves a man dead and a teenaged boy searching for clues to his missing sister, Rhea...

"Powerful, immensely rich in detail, legend, character, this is a must read." Verified reviewer Trauma nurse and part-time death-investigator Molly Burke is having a pretty normal night at her St. Louis Emergency Department. Then a well-connected lawyer is wheeled in, victim of a suspected...

Convenient, mistress, whore (B.E.) Cant expression of standard meaning, favorable to one's comfort.Malcolm Forrester a physician from Edinburgh, and Elspeth MacLeod, a healer from the Isle of Skye, were both educated in European universities, but only men are permitted to practice medicine in the...

*2016 Silver IPPY Award winner in Great Lakes Best Regional Fiction*A fight against the food industry turns deadly.Jeremy, a lonely and obese teenager, shoots into the limelight when a headstrong public health nurse persuades him to sue the food industry. Tossed into a storm...

A pharmaceutical company promises you hope and happiness in a pill. Would you take it if it cost your relationship with God?Dr. Nicklaus Hart returns from responding to a massive earthquake that rocked the Middle East, allowing an ISIS terror cell to enter the...

A massive earthquake hits Eastern Turkey, the ancient area of Mesopotamia, unveiling hidden secrets and opening an epic battle between good and evil.Dr. Nicklaus Hart has lost his moral compass. As an orthopedic surgeon in a busy trauma practice, the cares of the world...

A mysterious contagion will shatter countless lives unless a service dog and his trainer find a missing cat . . . in 24 hours. A STALKER hides in plain sight. A VICTIM faces her worst fear. AND A DOG seeks the missing--and finds hope....

'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm brothers did, and some of the Grimm characters are among the ingredients in this hellbrew of the return of the Black Death.' - Times Literary Supplement 'A splendid example of a gripping...

DNA evidence doesn't lie. Except when it does.When a man is murdered in his bed, DNA evidence conclusively identifies the killer. The only problem? He's currently serving a life sentence for murdering the man's wife more than six years earlier. The medical examiner's office...

Medicine has no cure for evil...Ben Oris, a pragmatic med student from Philadelphia, gets cut by an old bone while touring the Paris catacombs. His companion Laurette, a public health student from Haiti, senses danger and worries an evil curse now runs through him.Ben...

Dr. Holden was living the American Dream. He was highly respected by his colleagues and patients, esteemed by the local community. Little did he know that his enchanted life would be soon spectacularly crushed, his reputation and his health ruined, and his freedom endangered....

"... monumentally conceived and masterfully sculpted ... Smith is the master of suspense ..." -Manhattan Book Review (5 Stars) "... stunning debut ... a flurry of unpredictable, nail biting, and clock-ticking scenarios ..." --San Francisco Book Review (5 Stars) You know that Atlanta PD...

This New Year's resolution? Stay alive.... "Harrowing...irresistible." New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsWith Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year's Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their...

Katherine Powers is terminally ill. Her husband Adam is an innovative surgeon who promises he can save her. It begins with a choice: wait for the inevitable, or take a chance at living with an experimental surgery. Katherine chooses life, even if there are...

"The character at the heart of the novel is both terrifying and realistic. For fans of dark thrillers and crime fiction, this novel will not disappoint." Self-Publishing Review"The characters are expertly drawn. The story builds toward an explosive conclusion." Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Trigger warning: caution...

JJ and Jack are back and they're on their honeymoon. Solving the ritualistic murder of a man who is just on the brink of celebrating his hundredth birthday isn't their idea of a good vacation. But for JJ and Jack, it's hard to turn...

Risk madness, or let the killings continue? Jackson sees patterns - the sway of trees, the flow of traffic, the design of the human body. His condition makes him a brilliant massage therapist, but also once put him in a locked psych ward. Now...

Can Sonia keep her family safe?"I exhale into the water, watching for bubbles. Follow the bubbles, I tell myself. The bubbles don't lie. The bubbles are life. The water is growing warmer against my skin. Am I nearing the surface? It's continuing to heat...

Three and a half years after a bizarre incident nearly derailed his life, Benjamin Oris is back on track as a second-year orthopedic surgery resident. With a son he adores, a circle of supportive family and friends, and a great shot at winning the...

Three and half years after a bizarre incident nearly derailed his life, Benjamin Oris is back on track as a second-year orthopedic surgery resident. With a son he adores, a circle of supportive family and friends, and a great shot at winning the Conley...

People are dying in Dr. Joshua Salvador's ER. His medical assistant, only weeks from delivering her baby, hangs on to life by a thread. The symptoms seem horrifyingly familiar, and he begins to suspect the deaths are targeted at him. But, before he can...

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