Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

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...

In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost and causes madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been...

How far would you go to save someone you love? Nick Seratino is a vibrant, handsome young man starting college when he receives a terrible diagnosis. He has end stage renal disease, requiring dialysis and ultimately a new kidney, and is placed on a...

"London's style is typically lush but his viewpoint is skeptical and dystopian...the story reminds us of the dangers we still court with our careless ways."-The Times "Jack London saw this coming. Why didn't we?...To revisit The Scarlet Plague during the COVID-19 crisis is to...

"A deep, weird and uncanny tale" --Sheila Heti"A book to devour"--Iain Reid"Sinister good fun" --Lee Henderson"Gripping and unassumingly smart" --Lauren Oyler A journalist with a history of bending the facts uncovers a story about a medical breakthrough so astonishing it needs no embellishment--but behind...

A fast-spreading disease with no cure takes the United States by storm in Robin Cook's "most harrowing medical horror story" (The New York Times). Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers...

When Alan Wright learns his ex-wife Andrea leapt to her death only hours after getting remarried to a man he hates, he's heartbroken. When he receives a package in the mail two days after her death, filled with the documents she'd used to plan...

Something unusual is going on with the dementia patients at Pleasant View Nursing Home.Dr. Jim Bob Brady, Houston orthopedic surgeon and amateur sleuth, finds himself in the midst of a different type of medical mystery. His friend and colleague, Dr. James Morgenstern, refers him...

Would your character change ...if you had all the money in the world?And all the time?Would you become a better person?Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller._______________________________________There's a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One...

FROM HOOCH HIGHWAY TO HOMICIDEHope Sze escapes for a romantic weekend away at the Rumrunner's Rest, a Roaring Twenties inn once celebrated both for Prohibition's best alcohol and the smoothest jazz bands north of the Detroit River.Then a convention of fictional villains overrun the...

This tale of love and revolution takes place in 1975 in picturesque Charlottesville, Virginia. Like many other famous works of fiction, Jefferson Country is a roman a clef-it presents real events in a fictionalized framework and uses fictitious characters and real people to advance...

Pharmacy student Jason Rodgers craves a coveted externship at one of the most prestigious sites in all of Virginia. He sits in his beat-up Honda contemplating how his future will change if he can impress the demanding preceptor and land one of the few...

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 investigate...

*Instant National Bestseller In this explosive new thriller from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, an experimental vaccine is deployed to battle a lethal outbreak--until patients start dying of unknown causes. An ordinary day The city of Seattle is stunned when a deadly bacteria tears...

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...

Discover the history of Haden's Syndrome, the virus that created the world of John Scalzi's inventive near-future thrillers Lock In and Head On, in the prequel novella Unlocked.Not long from now, a virus will sweep the globe. Most will suffer no worse than flu-like...

"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...

It's 1991 and Western Meadows Hospital should be a place for healing and academic endeavour. Instead, it becomes a focus of murder and mystery when the professor of medicine is found dead in a ward bed.Dr Chris Walker, a young cancer specialist, finds himself...

The real-life work of sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein brought "riveting authenticity" (Vanity Fair) to her bestselling debut novel, Final Jeopardy--now Fairstein's fictional counterpart, smart and savvy assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper, returns in a page-turner that puts Alex in the line of fire. New York...

Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine and crystal-meth habit claimed the life of his identical twin, Aaron. Now Ben walks onto the scene of a savage...

Future doctor Adam Schonberg loved his wife. That was why he took a job with the giant drug firm Arolen, for the money he needed for their coming baby. His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic...

Dr. Jacqueline Saint-Eb鈩e joined the French Defense Health Service because she had grown bored of vaginas. But neither her years as an Ob-Gyn nor her tour as a combat surgeon in Africa prepared her for her latest assignment: a supernatural immaculate conception, her pregnant...

When skin rashes start to appear on a number of people, the blame is put on a newly developed, naturally coloured, cotton. All the patients had worn garments made from the fibre, yet not all those wearing the fabric are developing the condition. Initial...

In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his "enemy" has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Marilyn...

Two weeks before the biggest trial of his career, Memphis attorney Ben Jennings is on the brink of implosion. Juggling needy clients, an ex-wife, a spendthrift partner, tricky single fatherhood, and the inevitable vicissitudes of fate, Jennings takes on the powerful medical establishment to...

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...

The Liminal People is the first of Ayize Jama-Everett's Liminal novels. Membership in the razor neck crew is for life. But when Taggert, who can heal and hurt with just a touch, receives a call from the past he is honor bound to try...

Dr. Theo Cray is on the hunt for a killer nurse, and redemption, in a mind-bending psychological thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.Dr. Theo Cray has a legendary mathematical knack for catching serial killers. Until his exposure to a...

In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career... In a hospital four thousand miles away, a reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on...

"In this harrowing account of the aftermath of a tsunami, Jenifer Ruff takes you to ground zero of the disaster's mighty power, wrapping it with a haunting mystery. I loved every minute of it."-Timothy Browne - USA Today Best-Selling AuthorA tsunami strikes a small...

After Blackwell, a small town in Southeastern Massachusetts, experiences three separate murders, all with the same modus operandi, Jacob Reason arrives to join a former mentor's practice. Before long he encounters an old love and finds himself knee deep in clues as to the...

"911. What's your emergency?""He came for her. She's been shot," says a desperate voice, as footsteps echo down an alley. "She's dying.""Oh no, oh no, he's coming back. Please, come quickly--" And then a click, and the drone of a dial tone.The beautiful young...

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...

Juan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, has spent years studying the genome of animals that exhibit immunity to some types of cancer. Over the course of his study, Juan discovers a pattern that allows him to predict the course of a species' evolution across thousands...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes this riveting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death. When one of homeopath Carissa Lake's patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her prescribed remedy, Leland...

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook's "pressure cooker of a thriller" (Booklist) takes medical technology into a new realm, where everything we know about the human body--and the universe we live in--is about to be challenged. Everyone assumes it's just the flu--but when...

When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, the scientific community is galvanized. Cantor's most promising research fellow, Dr. Jeremiah Stafford, has only to conduct the experiment that will prove the brilliant hypothesis and win Cantor the Nobel Prize. But how...

The day that Lorrie "accidentally" cuts off her little toe, she discovers what it's like to be able-bodied and not want that body.After Bartholomew loses his left arm to a landmine, he's inspired to start a new kind of church-one where both amputation and...

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...

The young woman's mouth is slightly parted, as if waiting to speak. Her body is frozen in ice and her blue eyes stare at the sky, perhaps wanting to look at the stars one last time...When the body of a woman is found in...

"Hidden under a cloak of legitimacy, I have been pressed to deliver extraordinary service for my country. It has been a successful ruse. A premium blend of dark deception with just an aroma of truth." -Dr. Lily RobinsonDr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician...

ER physician and medical researcher, Drake Cody, has developed an experimental drug that may help the paralyzed walk. Rogue elements operating in the shadows of the pharmaceutical industry have learned of Drake's breakthrough and they will destroy anyone or anything that prevents them from...

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Lily Robinson-the brilliant pathologist and toxicologist-was a member of a scientific expedition in Colombia, South America, that ended in the death of her colleagues and, presumably, her little girl. Unaware of the true circumstances of her tragedy, her...

Rachel Prince is back...Rachel's plans to spend Christmas with her fianc are in tatters after he is called to Italy at short notice.Rather than spend Christmas with her parents, Rachel decides to take a last-minute Canary Island cruise. Sarah, cruise ship nurse and Rachel's...

Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best ThrillerPHARAOH'S TOMBS. ANCIENT MYTHS. MODERN-DAY MURDERDr. Hope Sze doesn't need a free trip to Egypt.She can't afford the flight to Cairo, or the cruise down the Nile, so she'd keep studying in Canada-except her fiancé;, Dr....

A murder in the city's most exclusive hotel. The prime suspect? Her boyfriend's ex-wife.There's another killing in the cozy beach town of Estancia. This time, Coroner Fenway Stevenson needs to solve the murder of one of the most prominent businessmen in town. But everyone...