Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

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 in...

Emily Branford's perfect life as the wife of a prominent surgeon is suddenly changed when a terrifying dream awakens her to an even more terrible reality: something so dreadful is happening to her body that even the finest doctors and scientists cannot diagnose the...

Dr. Jack Merchant is a radiologist in a busy private practice and now finds himself mourning his wife on the one year anniversary of her death. He returns to the site of her death one year later only to find he is now accused...

Human Intelligence is soaring in Dr. Danny's neurosurgical patients A lavishly enriched blood supply piques Dr. Danny Tilson's interest as he performs a routine surgery on Varg Dagmar's brain. He soon discovers that it's not just his patient's cranial anatomy that's remarkable, but his...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOWFantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down. - Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOWFantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down. - Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of...

A deadly terror is loose in the city. No one can see it . . . No one can fight it . . . No one can stop it. It's so small, it's invisible. So powerful, it's brought a city to its knees ....

This captivating murder mystery depicts the exposure of a breast implant manufacturer whose products have caused the development of cancer in patients. As she is leaving her lover/client/friend Dr. Dan MacNamara, Sherri Barker, a detail person for PolySurgical Specialties, a manufacturer of polyurethane coated...

In this psychological thriller, a missing patient raises concerns in a New York hospital, but as others start disappearing every dark possibility becomes more and more likely. To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition--it's her life's work. But when two...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The novel that redefined the science fiction genre, starring a team of scientists who must uncover what killed the citizens of a sleepy desert town--and stop the deadly contagion before it creates a catastrophe. "I love anything Michael Crichton...

Sparks fly as Dr. Lily Robinson-the brilliant academic pathologist and covert assassin for the U.S. Government-investigates two seemingly unrelated deaths alongside her lover, Agent Jean Paul Marchand, and D.C. Medical Examiner Dr. Logan Pelletier.A U.S. Senator and the president of a developing nation are...

Winterbourne is an evocative tale of murder, revenge, and love. Here is a riveting account of crime, murder, and madness that terrorizes the small-town surgeon and his family in the formerly innocent California community, known as Winterbourne.Set in the early 1960's, this is the...

This legal thriller "Riding the Executive Roller Coaster-Medical Staffing Cases" brings forth a decade-long story of lawsuits that didn't catch the public's attention. Kelli Christina, the top female healthcare executive in 2016, discusses the shady and somewhat duplicitous business strategies and practices in the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers another enthralling thriller in her high-stakes forensic series starring Kay Scarpetta. It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with her FBI profiler husband Benton Wesley when she...

Discover the "dazzling...fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) forensic thriller that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed...

New York Times BestsellerIn this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the...

New York Times BestsellerIn this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the...

This captivating murder mystery depicts the exposure of a breast implant manufacturer whose products have caused the development of cancer in patients. As she is leaving her lover/client/friend Dr. Dan MacNamara, Sherri Barker, a detail person for PolySurgical Specialties, a manufacturer of polyurethane coated...

In medicine, a single mistake in an otherwise spotless career can determine the rest of your life - even if the mistake was not your own. Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon - the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a...

Judy Kozinski needs answers. Her husband, a prominent genetic scientist, has been found murdered and no one can find a motive. *** In Las Vegas, a showgirl sends a cryptic message to FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh from a murdered friend. *** How are the...

What starts as a simple investigation into a friend's surgery gone wrong unravels something much darker-a trail of unexplained deaths at the hands of two unscrupulous surgeons.Author: Amanda DuBoisISBN-10: 195485434XISBN-13: 9781954854345Publisher: Girl Friday BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2022Pages: 313Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.27h x 6.25w x 1.10d

The man who would beat the devil isn't a hero, but a ruthless madman.Running from his dark past, former Duvalier hit man Charles Redmond is forced to take sides in a battle that has been raging since Exodus: between a power-mad magician named Silas...

First, do no harm...A patient comes to you with vague but troubling symptoms. He seems to know a little too much about the odd sickness you've seen in other patients lately. You start to wonder what he's been up to in his chicken coop....

In this psychological thriller, a missing patient raises concerns in a New York hospital, but as others start disappearing every dark possibility becomes more and more likely. To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition--it's her life's work. But when two...

An unfulfilled, conflicted and emotionally sensitive hero, Patrick Thempa, learns to cope with his grief and the loss of his mother, as he unravels the mysteries of a higher purpose, a dark, looming creature and a nefarious, unfelt threat.Author: Andrew StoikesISBN-10: 0578983702ISBN-13: 9780578983707Publisher: Special...

Things are not as they seem...Dr. Addison Fischer never imagined that she would be invited to collaborate with a prospective Nobel Prize winning scientist, but a seemingly innocent meeting reconnects her with Dr. Emmitt Strydent, her high school classmate. Strydent is on the brink...

Two years ago, Nobel laureate Dr. Allisyn McLoren unexpectedly left her prestigious research position to become the FDA Commissioner. Since then, she has rehabilitated the troubled agency plagued by prior mismanagement and numerous deficiencies, successfully restoring its legitimacy and reputation. But now she finds...

In this psychological thriller, a missing patient raises concerns in a New York hospital, but as others start disappearing every dark possibility becomes more and more likely. To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition--it's her life's work. But when two...

New York Times #1-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene modification in this pulse-pounding medical thriller. When a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on a New York City subway car and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is...

In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping novel What Rose Forgot, a young grandmother wakes up to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare. WHAT SHE FORGOT IS FRIGHTENING. Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog....

"A knockout" (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. "Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't...

In this propulsive, "nonstop read" (USA TODAY) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Night, a NASA doctor is in a deadly race against time to destroy a lethal microbe as it multiplies in the International Space Station. Dr. Emma...

Despite her wide contributions to genre literature, Irish author L. T. Meade is now remembered, if at all, for her girls' school stories. However, in 1898 the Strand Magazine, famous for its fictions of crime, detection, and the uncanny, proclaimed Meade one of its...

"If someone does not come along and provide us the opportunity, . . . we will never know what we are missing or capable of. And neither will they."-AnnaAnna's quest to understand how the brain operates might have started out as an escape from...

In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by profit and greed. Trying...

Maybe it was an innocent mistake, or could it have been sabotage? Either way, Dr. Moe Mathis is in a mess. After obtaining a positive biopsy and performing radical prostate cancer surgery on his lover's father, pathology now finds no evidence of cancer in...

Inspired by true events.The effects of anesthesia can linger post-op in a geriatric brain, as was the case with Suzy's mother, Ginny. But something has gone terribly wrong. As Ginny's thoughts are being erased, she exposes shocking repressed memories. Conspiracy. Revelations, that if true,...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW"Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down." - Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower--a riveting thriller and "all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation" (The Wall Street Journal). At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever....

Dr. Theo Cray and FBI agent Jessica Blackwood confront a cataclysmic conspiracy in a pulse-quickening thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In...

No favorite child is one who lives life with passion and often goes astray. Matt Morgan, a successful but hardened medical malpractice defense trial attorney, is such a man--and he's ready to quit. He stays in practice to take a case against his longtime...

'I'm so very sorry. But your son is dead.'As I hear the words every mother dreads my pulse races and I go cold. But even as my world turns upside down I know the things I'm being told just don't add up. I have...

In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen--the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show--delivers a pulse-pounding tale that "will make your heart skip a beat" (USA TODAY). For Dr. Abby...

For fans of Julia Buckley and Tess Gerritsen, a debut featuring a killer in plain sight using a microscopic murder weapon, the cutting edge gene-editing technology: CRISPR. Boston geneticist Dr. Saul Kramer is on the cutting edge of genetic disease research. Revered among clients...

An ancestry database holds the key to catching a killer in this explosive medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. When the body of social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, it...

Inspired by true events.The effects of anesthesia can linger post-op in a geriatric brain, as was the case with Suzy's mother, Ginny. But something has gone terribly wrong. As Ginny's thoughts are being erased, she exposes shocking repressed memories. Conspiracy. Revelations, that if true,...

"Pretty/Ugly, the story of two damaged people living in a dystopian nightmare, is an exquisitely written horror novel. But, is it really fiction? In these times, it seems chillingly possible for an Instagram star and a politician wrapped in a fa軋de of is own...

"What a timely murder mystery!" -Marsha K. Kohn, J.D.Facing a coming epidemic of dengue fever, Louise and Marnie try to discover the truth behind their friend's murder, but can they solve it before it's too late?When Dr. Gennifer Drake's body washes up on a...

"Terrorism, greed, genetics and politics collide in this complex and gripping thriller." -BestThrillers.comDr. Erica Rosen's world is turned upside down after a suicide bomber explodes amidst a large crowd entering Oracle Park baseball stadium, near her San Francisco home. Many are killed or injured,...

The girl in the photo was laughing, her head thrown back, her lips painted a bright red. Jessie could feel the simple joy reflected in that moment. And as she looked closer, she saw the same gold cross and chain that had adorned the...