Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

The Blues are rapidly reproducing; growing more intelligent and lethal each day. With hundreds of millions still covering the earth, the future of humankind looks bleak. Yet, Bruce and his Clan refuse to die without a fight to the bitter end. The elite squads...

A prominent politician, and close friend of the Prime Minister, has died during routine heart surgery. Is this simply a case of extreme medical negligence or are more complex events unfolding? The year is 2030. Advanced robotic systems are commonly utilised for surgery in...

Some Secrets can be deadly....First Place Winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award, Silent Survivor is a medical thriller that according to Readers' Favorite review: churns out suspense at a pace to put a reader's pulse into overdrive. Army nurse, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd returns...

Forensic pathology consultant Dr. Bodhi King arrives at a secluded Buddhist monastery for a much-needed silent retreat. But his respite is interrupted by the discovery in a nearby field of a corpse of an unknown man. The puzzle of his death is compounded when...

Dr. Bodhi King returns in Lonely Path, the second book in the gripping medical thriller series by USA Today Bestselling Author Melissa F. Miller. When forensic pathology consultant Bodhi King is invited to present a paper at a national conference, he runs into a...

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...

Keeping secrets can be murder. "A powerful and dramatic look into the frenzied world of emergency medicine...Lyons' characters are dynamic and genuine." Suspense Magazine Angels of Mercy ER charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for three long years. But...

July 1st, the most dangerous day of the year... A gripping behind-the-scenes drama of four women who face life and death every day... New ER doctor Lydia Fiore finds herself losing the wrong patient--the Chief of Surgery's son. To save her career, Lydia must...

The Hart and Drake Finale After all that they've been through, no one would deny that Hart and Drake deserve a happily-ever-after life together. But, on the eve of their Christmas wedding, a threat long buried returns to threaten them. Not just their happiness,...

For readers of Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen, Iris Johansen, and Debra Webb: A Hart and Drake Thriller #3 #1 NYT Bestseller Sandra Brown called NERVES OF STEEL, the first Hart and Drake novel, "A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read."...

For readers of Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen, Iris Johansen, and Debra Webb: Hart and Drake Thriller #2 "There's an oath doctors take," Detective Mickey Drake said. "Primum non nocere," the shrink supplied. "First do no harm." *** Two months ago Dr. Cassandra Hart was...

A Killer Flight With No Way OutWhen Dr. Hope Sze flies to Los Angeles to reunite with her soul mate, she expects Botoxed blondes with Brazilian wax jobs, not terror at 35,000 feet in the air.Yet on their way home, with 1000 miles to...

Stay out of trouble, they said. Lay low until things blow over. Sound advice for Senior Medical Examiner Dr. Beckett Campbell, considering he was found hovering over the body of accused serial killer Craig Sloan, a bloody rock in his hand.Sound advice, all of...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. It tells the story of an experimental medical procedure on a woman close to death. The procedure brings her back from the brink...

One of the most frightening post-apocalyptic scenarios is a pandemic. Other end-of-the-world events occur and then eventually end, those still alive having to pick up the pieces to survive. But a pandemic continues on, devastating the world's population over time. People desperately try to...

In this intense and "absolutely brilliant thriller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor), a forensic anthropologist sets out to prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake, but quickly discovers the opposite--and must race to stop the evil forces who want...

"Captures the intense atmosphere of the White House...I thoroughly enjoyed it." --President Bill Clinton on Michael Palmer's The First Patient Growing up in the White House was never supposed to be easy. So when sixteen-year-old Cam, also a champion chess player, experiences extreme moodiness...

Molecular biologist Matt Brenner stumbles upon a horrifying plot when he seeks answers regarding the suspicious death of his childhood friend, Jack Sinclair, a scientist in a secret Army Biodefense Research Center in St. Louis. Matt joins the facility as one of their research...

After brain surgeon Dr. Danny Tilson performs several intracranial surgeries, patients and staff acquire a strange meningitis which sweeps nationwide at breakneck speed. The root of the outbreak is an enigma and the CDC, a neurologist, and an infectious disease specialist are called in...

DEATH IN VEGAS, a medical suspense novel, is part Million Dollar Baby, part Rocky, and a bit Erin Brockovich. Dr. Olivia Norris takes on the mostly male world of Las Vegas boxing power brokers. Olivia is a brilliant, attractive Chicago neurologist, married to her...

It's the year 1889, and a shrewd Yankee ice merchant, Nicolas Van Horne, has been carving out a profitable side-business. Deep in his ship's icy hold, dozens of human cadavers lie between the huge blocks of ice. On this delivery, his first to Galveston's...

And so it begins, the virus enters on the quiet feet of The Innocents. It invades each and every one of us. But, they say, plagues are like fires. At some point, they burn themselves out. Or not. FEAR AND RUMOR CAN BE FAR...

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 WAR A new dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction series from author Bobby Akart (The Blackout Series, The Boston Brahmin...

Two young medical school graduates enter the world of medicine for their first month of internship, assigned to the 13th floor of the Los Angeles County Medical Center--the notorious Jail Ward where injured and wounded prisoners are incarcerated. Struggling between their own idealism and...

Benjamin Walker's lifelong career of testing experimental drugs and medicines, as well as participating in fascinating sleep-related studies, has come to an end. A new and lucrative job opportunity is offered to Ben, working on a project named Lucy, a machine capable of reading...

In the pre-dawn hours of the graveyard shift, the ICU at the Houston Heart Institute is quiet, and quietly, patients are dying. Surgery resident Joe Morales must survive a two-month stint in an ICU rife with land mines-unexplained patient deaths, rival faculty, fellow-resident saboteurs,...

Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer. Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl,...

New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts. "Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve."...

If you have the cure, all you need is the disease.When the FDA denies approval for a new flu vaccine, Dr. Eric Carter desperately searches for a way to save the drug and the company. Little does he know, others are crafting a man-made...

After a construction worker unearths a human skull on the campus of the University of Mississippi dating to the 1960s, an older woman's desperate attempt to erase history counts down the five manners of death. Dr. Diana Bratton is a surgeon surrounded by bodies...

An impassioned and gifted neonatal physician, Dr. Maggie Claymore fights for the lives of her newborn patients with a fierceness that has gained her the devotion of worried parents and sometimes the ire of her colleagues. Maggie is just shy of forty, and her...

In The Flu Is Coming, a new type of flu -- the Philippine flu --kills nearly half of the residents in an upscale, gated community near Albuquerque in less than a week. Those who survive become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine...

Elijah Cone's doctor said he could help him. His doctor lied.Hiding from a traumatic past, Elijah spends his remaining days in the Rose Haven Retirement Home avoiding contact with the other residents, desperate for death to relieve him of his all-consuming guilt.Elijah isn't the...

Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.Author: Robert J. SawyerISBN-10: 0441020801ISBN-13: 9780441020805Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2011Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 6.75h x...

A full-throttle thriller and a powerful human drama of wounded love--and the hurts that afflict the body, mind, and spirit It was truly a crime against innocents. Eleven dolphins, part of an experiment in healing, are found slaughtered in their saltwater tanks. When Thorn,...

New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton return in this stunning new novel from the 'master of the medical thriller' (New York Times) a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spiral.Author: Robin CookISBN-10: 0425222888ISBN-13: 9780425222881Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

In Mutation, Robin Cook's masterpiece of techno-medical suspense, Dr. Cook tells a story as chilling and real as today's headlines. On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, it is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son...

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by...

Taryn Pirelli is a Seattle-based, travelling anesthesiologist on assignment in Bend, Oregon. When patients under her care inexplicably end up dead, her justified questions are brushed under the rug by the hospital administration. Told to focus on her job, uneasiness and tension plague Taryn.Blake...

When Dr. Lawrence A. Cooper (Coop) has three patients inexplicably bleed to death on the operating table, the vultures begin to circle. First, he is accused of operating while under the influence of alcohol and his surgical privileges are stripped. Next, the deceased patients'...

PRESERVE YOUR CAREER OR DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THE PATIENT-THAT'S THE DILEMMA FACING DR. DECLAN MURPHY. Occam's Razor is a medical thriller set against the backdrop of Operation Jackpot, the first major federal sting in the War on Drugs. Declan Murphy, a popular Ob-Gyn...

A beautiful, pregnant woman... A handsome sleep research scientist... who falls in love with her. An incredibly sophisticated computer... who talks with... THE UNBORN "If there's going to be an occult bestseller this year, this is surely it! For 10 years I've been waiting...

When he was a boy, Stuart Mullond's mother held him down while his urologist Dr. Ferguson performed a medical procedure on him that was so traumatizing and humiliating that its painful memory stayed with him for decades. For his entire life, his nightmares have...

Stitching is the third in a series of Alessandra "Ale" Ferretti romance/thriller novels. We find our LA ER nurse Ale building her fashion business, fighting off rumors about her sexy Cuban boyfriend Carlos 'Striker' Montoya. Engaging her hunky trainer Mac, her still recovering from...

Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives...

Ashley McCormack is back! It's been three weeks since she went into the Soup business with her mysterious online partner "DarkLorrd", and now he wants her to add a new item to their black market menu. Ashley is a disturbed young woman, and although...

A dead man in the snow shatters Dr. Hope Sze's peaceful month of research at an Ottawa stem cell lab.Hope discovers that one man's body leads to a series of corpses, both at home and around the globe.This time, the killer knows no borders...

On the Halloween night, thugs beat him up badly. Then people ignored him. A doctor put all her efforts in bringing him back. A foreign country helped him recover. An artist befriended him.A very intricate plot brings Peter Weiss in a new reality, where...

The disease has teeth...but the cure could be deadly.As Investigator for the Lycanthrope Council, Gabriel McCord went above and beyond his official title to keep werewolf kind out of the public eye. Now he has a new challenge as the liaison to the Institute...

Scientists around the world have either abandoned their breakthrough medical research and disappeared or mysteriously died before finishing their work. But no one knows about it. They can't be connected. That changes when a doctor working for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in...