Medical Fiction

At the close of the 24th century, a series of revolutions has caused the galaxy to descend into chaos. With the Galactic Union Army stretched thin, mercenary units have arisen for those who have the need - and the means - to hire them. Kay, the alien member of the Cutter Force Initiative, has returned to her brutal home world of Vast on a mission of mercy. Before she joined the merc team, she was a great healer. And now her skills are sorely needed. Hundreds of Vastalimi - including her blood-kin - are mysteriously dying. But is the plague a work of nature? Or is it a bioengineered virus, purposefully unleashed?

Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicably, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life for a dedicated young nurse who unknowingly holds the answers.

Corey Curtis is coasting. At 33, she's in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn't be happier. She thinks. Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she's heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey - the woman her young colleagues are whispering about.

“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under...

Tabitha Brickly has a husband, two children, and every reason to be happy. On the surface, she can put on a smile, but deep down, she’s struggling. In need for something or someone to help her find true happiness, her heart feels empty and tired. Tabby’s husband, Drew, is quickly becoming the last person she can talk to. As a busy nurse, also trying to take care of the home, there’s only so much a worn-out heart can take.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to...

A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains. The chief surgeon performs a C-section and delivers a catastrophically malformed foetus that is somehow alive.... Sewage engineer Gemma is plunged into a ghostly darkness in the tunnel where she works. She escapes, but her boss goes missing in the chaos. He is later found alive...but his legs have been severed and his eyes pulled out.

Cuando Carlos Manso, magnate de la comunicación y símbolo del poder mediático en España, muere en circunstancias escandalosas, se desata una tormenta que salpica a periodistas, jueces, forenses, sus herederas y figuras clave del poder en España. Lo que comienza como una muerte trágica y sensacionalista pronto revela una compleja red de secretos, chantajes, abusos y encubrimientos. En medio de ese maremoto, el carismático y asocial forense Santi Munárriz se enfrenta a uno de los momentos más complicados de su carrera… y de su vida.

Fin février 2020, lors de fouilles dans le gouffre de Legarrea en Navarre, Nash Elizondo, psychologue médico-légale, et son équipe de chercheurs découvrent à cinquante mètres de profondeur une dépouille de brebis, une guirlande de minuscules roses desséchées et le corps d’une jeune fille : Andrea Dancur, portée disparue depuis trois ans. Parmi ses proches, chacun a quelque chose à cacher, et la silhouette menaçante du grand-père fait obstacle aux confidences.

An innocent, untouched 18-year-old, Katy knows she shouldn’t be producing—and yet her newly large chest is dripping and leaking. Will the handsome, older doctor be able to help her with her embarrassing issue? And will she be able to hide her arousal while he examines her most intimate parts?

ROBIN COOK--New York Times-best selling author and master of the medical thriller--returns with another crackling tale of unchecked greed, medical malfeasance, adn starling science. PIA GRAZDANI is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical...

An untreatable illness. A dangerous misdiagnosis. A deadly plot that hits too close to home, Drs. Jack Wyatt and Madison Shaw have finally settled in to a comfortable life together. But during a friendly college tour with Jack's daughter Anise, they learn that her mother, Jack's ex-wife, is suffering from a perplexing combination of ominous symptoms. Within days, she and ten of her work colleagues are in the ICU with an identical untreatable illness, Wyatt and Shaw soon find themselves embroiled in another medical mystery. The brightest doctors in Washington D.C.

As a midwife running her own home birth practice, Audrey Novak deals with pressure like a superhuman. Until, that is, she meets her handsome and arrogant neighbor, Dr. Ammon Parker. Ammon, who believes only in modern medicine, is just as unprepared for the infuriating - and inconveniently beautiful - midwife. When the two are repeatedly called to the same labor and delivery unit, their clashing ideals and fiercely independent personalities threaten to derail both their professional goals and their pride.

When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a silver Mercedes, she suspects foul play, especially when Lani fails to return home the next day. Both women, med students in their final year at Elliott Bay University, have a lot riding on the line, but no one in her family is worried. When Malorie’s fears for her roommate deepen, she turns to her Uncle Wade, a sergeant at Seattle Homicide. Within 48 hours after Lani goes missing, the partial remains of a brutally murdered young woman wash up on Alki Beach....

Ex-cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, ex-criminal Phineas Troutt, and ex-private eye Harry McGlade are all healing after a near-fatal encounter. But it's tough to mend when there's a serial killer prowling the halls at night, draining patients of their blood.

Meet Imelda and Augustine, or - as our young narrator calls his unusual parents - Em and the Big Hoom. Most of the time, Em smokes endless beedies and sings her way through life. She is the sun around which everyone else orbits. But as enchanting and high-spirited as she can be, when Em's bipolar disorder seizes her she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for herself and others. This accomplished debut is graceful and urgent, with a one-of-a-kind voice that will stay with listeners long after the final moments.

As Seth Levine dives into the intense world of medical school, he quickly learns it's not just his academic goals that are put to the test. Seth encounters a med student so arrogant he boasts that he’ll eat any cadaver part he can’t name, an instructor so dedicated she tests the student’s ability to perform a gynecological exam on herself, and a woman so captivating that Seth will do whatever it takes to make her laugh, including regale her with a story about a diagnostic squabble over an erection.

In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered sanatorium hide the haunting memories of century-old quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned by contagions and the doctors who torment her.

In this coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s, Gene Hull is whitewashing the trunks of Arizona citrus trees when he spots a beautiful girl and falls instantly in love. The girl is vulnerable and shy. Though Gene breaks through her reserve, a date at a wave park turns into a near disaster, and Gene must call on the one person he can always rely on - his father, who is a doctor.

Life as an ER doctor is intense. A shift can turn from mundane to insane in a matter of moments depending on what walks in, or crawls in, the door. Dr. Cameron Turner was no stranger to death. It happened all the time in the ER, but usually not to the doctor. When an irate patient loses control, Cameron crumbles to the ground with a mortal wound. While the team races to save their colleague from certain death, Cameron opens his eyes and finds himself face-to-face with God. He is offered something he has sought his entire life.