Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

'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...

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...

"A SKILLED STORYTELLER WHO KNOWS HOW TO SERVE UP VIVID NARRATIVES, ROMANTIC ADVENTURES, COMPELLING CHARACTERIZATIONS, RIVETING PLOTS AND INTRIGUING VIEWS OF MODERN DAY CHINA." --BookLoons"A BRISK, SOLIDLY PLOTTED POLICE PROCEDURAL, WITH LOTS OF GRITTY FORENSIC DETAILS." --Mystery Scene MagazineDetective Li Yan and forensic pathologist...

A Giallo-themed horror RPG adventure context/scenario that can be used with any system, but which is presented with statistics for Actual F*cking Monsters. This scenario takes place in a run-down hospital where nothing is quite what it seems.Author: Miguel RibeiroISBN-10: 1008995819ISBN-13: 9781008995819Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

American Big Pharma wants her gone.China wants her as a bargaining chip to rule the world.She could save millions of lives.But now she's fighting for her own.On the brink of curing cancer, Gracie Green is eager to advance tohuman trials and share her findings...

Malorie's best friend is missing. But due to her friend's wild past, no one is worried-until another med student's partial remains wash ashore a Seattle beach... When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a...

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...

Jake Trapper isn't your average organ acquisition specialist. He's the best in L.A. But Jake has a soft spot for underdogs and his current case is Angel, a young girl from a broken home. She needs a kidney. So Jake makes a deal with...

Joyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn't have any more - her youth, and that was what she needed most.Her boss fired her because he wanted...

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...

A harrowing psychological thriller debut about a woman who awakens after an assault with no physical proof of the attack and who must try to convince everyone of what really happened.When Dr. Alex Taylor opens her eyes, she is hooked up to an IV,...

From renowned British politician Stanley Johnson, an exciting, intelligent thriller about the rise of a mysterious virus and one man's fight to stop a deadly pandemic, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton and Dan Brown.How do you stop an invisible killer?When a young woman...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A killer it out there.A serial killer who appears to have a personal grudge against Kenzie Kirsch.The Assistant Medical Examiner has enough on her plate dealing with a personal crisis and doesn't need the added challenge of FBI...

The Deadly Blue Diamond, a fast-paced thriller, pits a young surgeon against vicious mobsters, crooked cops, and Chicago politicians. Little Louie, who killed his first man at age fifteen, organized a robbery to steal the Blue Diamond, a power symbol, that belonged to Al...

Tomorrow's Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin.Locus 2017 Recommended Reading List The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor,...

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the-headlines medical thriller, as medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises--and deadly risks--of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy... Medical examiners and husband-and-wife pair Jack Stapleton and...

In a novel as timely as it is terrifying, New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook explores the controversial clash of politics and biotechnology. When Dr. Daniel Lowell and his partner, Dr. Stephanie D'Agostino, discover a new cloning procedure that utilizes stem cells to treat...

In the gated community of Merryville, the elite wealthy of Maryland are protected from everything that could harm them. Everything except themselves.Young Sophie West, a star student at Merryville Prep, has a secret. She's hearing whispers from an imaginary friend she thought she left...

During World War II, at the selection ramp of Auschwitz, Dr. Joseph Mengele selects four-year-old Jakob Bauer and his sisters for his notorious experiments. Mengele takes keen interest in Jakob's intelligence and Nordic features, resulting in a paternal-like relationship that shelters Jakob from many...

What the world dreads most, happened. Now that they've achieved their quest for survival, the true reason for humanity's demise becomes ever more apparent. In her dystopian and post-apocalyptic novel, The China Pandemic, A. R. Shaw created a realistic world after a much too...

From Hank Parker, a former Homeland Security advisor specializing in bio- and agro-terrorism, comes a chillingly realistic debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try and stop it. It's a race against time...

Jana Rieger uses her academic background to tell a chilling story of betrayal as seen through the eyes of Dr. Mackenzie Smith, who is devastated when a young colleague, Anbu Mathew, dies in a suspicious accident. When Mackenzie begins to find disturbing messages that...

"Riveting plot, terrifying premise..." Tami Hoag, NYT Bestselling Author of Down The Darkest Road When forensic nurse Timmie Leary-Parker moves from LA to Puckett, Missouri to care for her ailing father, she's prepared for the slow pace, the small-town politics and the feeling that...

"A wicked prescription guaranteed to give you sleepless nights." Nora Roberts St. Louis Trauma nurse Casey McDonough thinks her life is interesting enough. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of...

Maya Hope invites you into the modern operating rooms of a trauma center, to the sweltering jungles of Guatemala, and the unpredictable tyranny of North Korea.Dr. Nicklaus Hart, a gifted trauma surgeon, searches for meaning in his life. His self-reliant spirit is broken with...

The first 3 books of Shojai's dark, female-driven domestic thriller series featuring pet-centric plots. LOST AND FOUND, BOOK 1: 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...

"A heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." Tess Gerritsen, NYT bestselling author From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, the third in her Fatal Insomnia Medical Thriller series. For fans of Michael Crichton...

For readers of Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen, Iris Johansen, and Debra Webb: Hart and Drake Thrillers #1 Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. A deadly drug epidemic, a killer stalking her hospital...meet the ER doctor who never gives up. Cassie's Pittsburgh...

We always want to believe history happened to those in the past. Many aspects of historical events were unforeseen. However, not this one. Warnings had been issued, yet the world was unprepared for the invisible enemy that threatened to kill us all.WELCOME TO THE...

When career ambitions and morals collide......which way will she choose?Nurse Anna is making the career of her dreams, working for the most renowned medicine professor in Germany.But her happiness is shattered the moment she stumbles upon a ghastly secret the Nazis are hiding from...

Doc Brady became an orthopedic surgeon to avoid being surrounded by death. But now it's everywhere around him.One spring day in 1994 Houston, Dr. Jim Bob Brady witnesses his neighbor's ten-year-old son killed by a hit-and-run driver. An accident, or an act of murder?...

Drugs. Alcohol. Violence. Chaos. All in a night's work for Dr. Hope Sze, aspiring Montreal emergency physician-until someone tries to strangle her with her own stethoscope.Then Hope's lover disappears.A second woman barely escapes throttling before her beloved vanishes too.Hope slogs through the pneumonia and...

Malorie's best friend is missing. But due to her friend's wild past, no one is worried-until another med student's partial remains wash ashore a Seattle beach... When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a...

Virus Thirteen is an irreverent and contagious thriller from debut author Joshua Alan Parry. Scientists James Logan and his wife, Linda, have their dream careers at the world's leading biotech company, GeneFirm, Inc. But their happiness is interrupted by a devastating bioterrorist attack: a...

CDC scientist Dr. Susan Prescott is on a mission to find the holy grail of cancer cures and believes she's discovered it in the work of Vladimir Sokolov, a Russian geneticist whose lab was closed during the fall of the Soviet Union. Prescott and...

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...

Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. BE PREPARED TO GET VERY,...

A chilling tale of medical suspense from the bestselling author of Side Effects. Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why a young boy is reliving every painful moment of his recent operation--and what terrible secret the hospital where the operation took place is hiding.Author: Michael...

A lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the foothills of the Rockies, Nano is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But when Pia...