Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the lab, Pia, with...

From the New York Times bestselling master of medical thrillers comes a shocking story of medical conspiracy. Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? Dr. Laurie Montgomery,...

A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Best Mystery of the YearThis suspenseful novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows a photojournalist as she takes on an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder--all...

"When people are dying, it's easier sometimes. You can be all-powerful-even heroic. You don't have to think about how much courage it takes to dwell among the living, to fight for your own life. Lots of caregivers get addicted that way."When a category five...

Stitches is a romantic thriller set in Los Angeles in 2023 during post-pandemic times. Socializing has resurged and Ale (short for Alessandra), an ER nurse and sometimes waitress, meets a handsome security expert at a VIP party. Nicknamed "Striker" for his military background, Carlos...

Dr. Harper Randolph listens to dead men tell their tales.From the imaginative mind of international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, comes a series ripped from today's headlines. Meet the Virus Hunters, the disease detectives on the front line of a never-ending battle to save humanity...

"Taut and suspenseful" (Kirkus Reviews): Grief-stricken after their daughter's death, Dr. Dagny Steele and her husband set sail across the Indian Ocean - but can they survive the terror ahead? "Definitely not for the faint of heart" (New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry)."An...

"Taut and suspenseful" (Kirkus Reviews): Grief-stricken after their daughter's death, Dr. Dagny Steele and her husband set sail across the Indian Ocean - but can they survive the terror ahead? "Definitely not for the faint of heart" (New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry)."An...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Long-regarded as one of the true visionary writers of the twentieth century, J.G. Ballard was one of the first British writers of the post-war period to begin to see, and to map out in his fiction, the future...

Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries...

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...

Anyone Can Put You to Sleep--It's the One Who Wakes You Up That's Important When a colleague's patient suffers a bizarre reaction in the operating room, Luke Daulton, a newly minted anesthesiologist, volunteers to help. Despite the surgical team's best efforts, the patient succumbs...

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...

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLING MEDICAL THRILLER Red Sparrow meets Inferno in Matt Miksa's debut which electrifies a Cold War spirit with fresh, modern-day expertise as our heroes wrestle society's darkest nightmares. In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic...

A doctor's life gets turned upside by a dangerous new technology in this thought-provoking medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of...

W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, international bestselling authors of Dissolution, present a gripping, thought-provoking contemporary thriller in the tradition of Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park. Here a project of cutting-edge genetics might lead to a better world-or a waking nightmare.For thirteen years-since he...

Zoo was just the beginning. Now, the last humans on Earth are fighting for their lives in a dystopia where humans are prey. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that...

Only Wrong Once is the first book in the phenomenal FBI and CDC Thriller series from USA Today and international bestselling author Jenifer Ruff."STUNNING, TERRIFYING, AND UNFORGETTABLE."- Author, D. CarriganTwo mysterious deaths: one in LA, one in Boston, each with the same horrific symptoms.In...

An addictive psychological thriller from a kindle bestseller. For fans of Karin Slaughter and Erin Kelly. SOME SECRETS ARE BEST LEFT BURIED... Cat panics when she sees a photofit of a murder suspect flash up on the news. It looks exactly like her, and...

Eric Egan, MD, becomes suspicious when several infants present with spinal meningitis. What he unearths is a monstrous plot by a colleague who has decided to play God.Author: Peter AckerISBN-10: 0985114428ISBN-13: 9780985114428Publisher: Karjeda PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2014Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d

Stitches is a romantic thriller set in Los Angeles in 2023 during post-pandemic times. Socializing has resurged and Ale (short for Alessandra), an ER nurse and sometimes waitress, meets a handsome security expert at a VIP party. Nicknamed "Striker" for his military background, Carlos...

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same...