Fiction - Thrillers - Medical

In a twist on the pandemic narrative, a small Lake Erie island in the direct flight path of a major wild bird migratory route is Ground Zero for the outbreak of a virulent, airborne strain of the bird flu virus. However, instead of racing...

What happens when Isaac Asimov and Edgar Allan Poe get together?Your next techno-thriller!Hyperion is a young--obsessed with the truth--blockchain engineer, working on the most promising technology of the century.When he starts having hyper-realistic dreams, he enlists the help of the best psychiatrist on the...

Strap in for the latest novel in Burrows' Who's In Control? thriller series. London. A massive explosion leaves 11 people dead, hundreds critically injured and one man in a deep coma. David cannot speak. He cannot move. He cannot see. But he can hear....

Mariah can't wait to start living her life again. After almost eight years of training, Captain Mariah Gordon, MD is ready to graduate from her Army OB/GYN residency and begin her first duty assignment. At least she thinks she's ready. Medical emergencies and long...

We all know about the dangers of living a modern life. There are risks when we get behind the wheel of a car, or when we meet a stranger on the street. We can reduce these foreseen risks if we practice defensive driving or...

Ali O'Day, a dedicated young neurosurgeon, might have a Nobel Prize in her future--if she can survive the next eleven hours. Under the glare of live television cameras--and with her lover, Dr. Richard Helvelius, and her estranged husband, Kevin, both looking on--Ali is about...

#1 Amazon Bestseller "Very realistic as to the things I do as a plastic surgeon."-Dr. Stephen Greenberg, New York plastic surgeon Dr. Harry Previn, the renowned Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is secretly called in to operate on the disfigured face of the ravishingly beautiful...

In this exhilarating new medical thriller by bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist dies mysteriously. Colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with...

A surgeon's protégé learns that home is where the cadaver heart is.Isaac had transplanted himself from Alabama to Colorado to work with a surgeon with the highest success rate in the field. He knew that sort of accomplishment came with personal sacrifice, but he...

MAJOR DOMINIC TAVANO, a disgraced military surgeon, is chosen to head a mission sanctioned by the military and The U.S. State Department to go undercover in the poorest district of Mexico, the Metlatonoc. The goal is to find the connection between those who rob...

"DIE HARD" meets "ER"! Named a finalist for the 34th annual, 2022, Minnesota Book award. "Insurrection" is a story of domestic terror, greed, government and corporate injustice, race, irresponsible journalists/media, critical care medicine, FBI action, and everyday people facing unimaginable conflict...Emergency physician Drake Cody...

They were taken. They returned. They never aged.A family is abducted. There are no signs of a struggle. Their Italian holiday villa is untouched. There are no ransom demands. The parents and two little girls, Victoria and Elizabeth, have simply vanished.The daughters are returned....

"A great fast-paced read....Not to be missed for fans of ER and Grey's Anatomy." 4 1/2 Stars, Book Addict A medical student investigating the mysterious deaths of patients begins to experience the same deadly symptoms herself. On rotation at Pittsburgh 's Angels of Mercy...

To the Native American princess Lelewala, the river isn't called the Niagara. It will be many years before the river and its famous falls become a tourist attraction. It will also be many years before Lelewala herself becomes a legend for Native Americans and...

Winner of National Indie Excellence Award.What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? Deceit? Fraud? Maybe even murder? When she finds a drug that has the potential to treat Alzheimer's disease, Pam Weller is certain she's made the discovery of a lifetime. But...

"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...

Matt Allen, a biochemist at a successful Boston biotechnology company, is researching a cure for his daughter's cystic fibrosis. One morning he discovers his team leader dead, notebooks are missing and building access records have been erased. Unlike the police he is convinced there...

Explosive debut! "Riveting, heart-wrenching, and brilliant..." -James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author She doesn't trust people. But can she team up with a service dog to save a missing child and catch a murderer?Animal behaviorist September Day protects her broken heart by keeping...

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...