Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

In harvest time of 1436, Joliffe's troupe leader falls, leaving his players to find what work they can while he recovers. Joliffe finds work in a hospital where he unfortunately has to deal with Mistress Cisily Thorncoffyn, a widow expecting to be endlessly waited...

"Like a runaway locomotive--a manically entertaining thriller. Robin Cook knows how to make the pages fly."--Kirkus Reviews At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a 100% success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe....

The bestselling "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times) confronts one of the most compelling issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. When neuroscientist Edward Armstrong begins dating Kimberly Stewart, a descendant of a woman who...

The bestselling "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times) tells a harrowing tale of the lengths one doctor will go to in order to conceive--and the conspiracy that may be at the root of her struggles. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal's dream of becoming...

Shattered by his wife's death, and by his own role in it, successful cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to assist with earthquake relief in an impoverished Islamic country in a constant state of conflict with its neighbor. But when the refugees he's come to help...

This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love's unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions" (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)--from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of...

Tess has a secret she didn't even know she had. An inheritance, so to speak. But this one's not money. It's in her blood.Clinical psychologist and HR executive at a biological research company, Tess Andreas is happiest in a controlled, predictable environment. But all...

A headless body on a boat. An international conspiracy. Can he survive a controversial scientific discovery?Esteemed Australian journalist Jack Rogan is on a mission to solve the disappearance of his mother in the 70s. But when a friend needs help rescuing a kidnapped world-renowned...

A desperate plea from the Vatican. A kidnapped chef. An ambitious mob boss. One perilous game. When Professor Alexandra Delacroix is called in to find a cure for the dying pope, she follows clues left by her mentor and friend, the late Professor K,...

A vampire succubus created during the Black Plague, Godfrey works as a Boston paramedic and battles loneliness and exhaustion as he fights to keep humanity safe from twin COVID and opioid epidemics. He has always pursued that which provides him hope--medicine, the cello... love....

After returning to a hero's welcome in Magdalen College, the drama of Stockholm behind him, Giles is tormented by doubts. Was Ahmad Sharif's death in Sorrento really an accident, as the Carabinieri concluded, or was the truth more sinister? Were the two girls with...

How far would you go to save your dying sister?In this action-packed medical thriller, Justin Reeve, a scientist working for a small research lab in Western North Carolina, finds out. His sister is dying of cancer in a hospital, her chemotherapy unsuccessful. While hiking...

Odessa is real and more deadly than ever.A bioterror threats instills terror in the Western world.Can the Nazis, resurrected from the dead, fight one more battle?The clock is ticking and the world waits to see where Odessa Strikes International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one...

Destroyed Lives. A Mysterious Death. And a Cover-Up That Impacts the WorldThe daughter of drug-addicted parents, Amy Spenser has amazingly grown into an intelligent, compassionate, and drug-free young woman. Her passion is helping those in need, in-between checking on her welfare abusing parents to...

Trapped as a visiting professor in Wuhan, China, Dr. Duncan "Mac" MacGregor experiences firsthand the devastating effects of COVID-19.He returns to the USA with a mission--to warn Americans about the impending plague.Melody Swift, prominent conservative newscaster, opposes Mac at every turn and denies the...

Odessa is real and more deadly than ever.A bioterror threats instills terror in the Western world.Can the Nazis, resurrected from the dead, fight one more battle?The clock is ticking and the world waits to see where Odessa Strikes!International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of...

PHARAOHS' 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 fianc , Dr. John Tucker, yearns to patrol the pyramids...

"A hard-hitting medical thriller with a heart." -Best ThrillersLee W. Hickok, MD, is an alcoholic. Curiously, his presence is required for New Year's Eve in-hospital overnight call. After consuming sweet amber bourbon, the urologist emergently consults on a difficult case. While the surgery is...

Life as she knew it is over. At the next full moon, the real trouble begins... Epidemiologist Joanie Fisher can't catch a break. After her lab burns to the ground, her boss simultaneously fires her and ends their affair. And though she's inherited her...

Based on true events, this bold novel involves some of the world's oldest, most emotional and controversial issues. At the core of each matter is man's predisposition to control and take ownership of the human spirit for the sake of profit and personal gain....

Plastic surgeon Lou Edwards's life is complicated by two major issues.One, his wife has lupus, possibly due to leaking silicone from breast implants Edwards himself inserted. And two, his malpractice insurance has been canceled, as it has been for many other plastic surgeons, due...

Dr. Takoda Wells risks everything to find the GODD chip, a banned gene therapy that might just save the human race.Set in the year 2137, this post-apocalyptic technothriller takes place amid the aftermath of the Genetic Revolution of the 2070s, an era during which...

Dr. Evan Jensen is a fourth-year resident in a General Surgery program at St. John's Hospital in Chicago, where she must face life and death decisions on a daily basis. After she is the passenger in a horrific car accident, she is taken to...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as...

When your father's a terrorist and wants to kill you - the obsession never ends. Instead, it passes to your children.Can Sonia save the child she loves?Dr. Sonia Amon, retired Army major and battlefield surgeon, based on intelligence from the CIA, learns her terrorist...

When an Urban Legend becomes realityKenzie Kirsch had led a sheltered life; daughter of a wealthy lobbyist, her way had been paved for her, and she wasn't really required to do much in life. There were events to make an appearance at, boards 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 fight to defeat new, deadly pathogens never ends. Each time we achieve a victory, the battleground shifts. There is a new outbreak, a new virus, a new enigma. The microbes are not lurking in search of human prey. We find them. From the...

It's 1991 and there are more murders at Western Meadows Hospital A priest is found dead in the hospital chapel with an Arabic knife protruding from his back. More murders follow.Dr Chris Walker, a young cancer specialist, finds himself in the middle of it,...

Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life (Arthur Conan Doyle) Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a volume collecting 15 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. These are medical and fantasy stories. The...

"AN ELECTRIFYING MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND HISTORY." --Kirkus Reviews"MAY'S WELL-PLOTTED FOLLOW UP... AMPLIFIES HIS VIVID PICTURE OF A CHAOTIC, VITAL MODERN-DAY CHINA" --Publishers WeeklyLi Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, this time to track down a killer reenacting a series of gruesome...

This book could be a guide on what governments should not do in the face of the current coronavirus crisis.A worldwide Ebola crisis and over reactive world governments have put greedy class action lawyer Jack Gamble on the verge of a big payday when...

Determined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands her patients' suffering better than most, because she's lost her memories, too. Desperate to...

"A cold shadow falls over my face. I open my eyes to see a vulture circling above me. Using my hand, I shade my eyes and see that another has joined it; both gliding on the warm air current as though conserving their strength...

When a corpse surfaces during an archeological dig, Bodhi King's in the wrong place at the wrong time.Bodhi tags along as his girlfriend's plus-one at a convention of small-town police chiefs. While Bette is learning the latest in law enforcement advancements, Bodhi plans to...

She was born with an extraordinary ability ...... and while she tries to hide it, others seek to control it.Who will win this deadly zero-sum game?Rock breaks scissors. Scissors cut paper. Paper covers rock. The rules are simple--except when it's people's lives at stake.When...

Do You Know Your Enemies? Have You Lost Your Credibility?" "I am only aware of fear. It so consumes me that every cell in my body screams for relief. My life goes on and there is nothing in it but fear, loss and terror."Retired...

In 1972, Dr. Rose Hemmings has just finished her general surgery residency when a haunted stranger is shot in front of her in a New York City bar, and their lives become forever intertwined. And when, having been given the blessing of her adoptive...

Finalist 2018 CALA Awards "It is rare indeed to find an author who not only tells a good story but writes with real literary flair. Barbara Golder is such an author. In this latest offering, we find the plot twists and twisted characters that...

Humanity falls...Trapped in the shower by her undead husband, Morgan prays for rescue but quickly realizes she's on her own. She escapes, only to find that the horror has spread and now threatens everything she holds dear. With each passing moment, death becomes more...

A pharmaceutical company promises you hope and happiness in a pill. Would you take it if it cost your relationship with God?Dr. Nicklaus Hart returns from responding to a massive earthquake that rocked the Middle East, allowing an ISIS terror cell to enter the...

A doctor stumbling through life. A North Korean bioterrorist plot. The two collide in an unforgettable tale.Dr. Nicklaus Hart, a gifted trauma surgeon, searches for meaning in his life. His self-reliant spirit is broken with the death of his missionary best friend, found sacrificed...

An animal behaviorist and her service dog race a deadly storm to expose a treacherous secret others will kill to protect. A BLACKMAILER returns to sell a deadly cure. A MOTHER'S DENIAL dooms millions of children. AND A DOG shows true loyalty...when he runs...

Viral IntentCan Alex enlist the enemy and to save lives and keep the President alive in New Orleans? Hospital attorney Alexandra Destephano is called in when an unidentified killer virus attacks the Crescent City emergency room. Physicians are baffled, nurses are frightened and viral...

A few dead bodies are a small price to pay in the quest for immortality. In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to...

Now in paperback: "A thrill ride through the dangerous intersection where the human genetics revolution and aggressive big power rivalries meet." --Richard Clarke The latest designer drug, Blue Magic, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in...

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...