Medical Mysteries Fiction

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a...

To Senior Medical Examiner Dr. Beckett Campbell, the Hippocratic Oath has always been more of a suggestion than a guiding principle.... Beckett is no ordinary forensic pathologist, which is why he's not surprised when a container with expertly removed organs arrives on his desk. What is alarming, however, is the note that accompanies it...the note that suggests this is only the beginning, that more are on their way.

No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert hands and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.

Adam's father has had a heart transplant. Now he goes missing at night, coming back dirty, with torn clothes and wounds, not remembering what he was doing. And in the meantime there are more and more young women missing in the area...

Dr. Zack Winston, now an ex-con desperate for redemption, reclaims his emergency medicine career and renews his most important relationship. A web of chilling conspiracies, shadowy cartel figures, and a deadly plot that reaches the highest levels of government threatens him. Lives—and the future of the nation itself—hang in the balance. Zack must confront the truth buried deep in a trail of crime and betrayal.

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific...

THE JUSTICE KILLER There’s a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card–a red “J”–on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they’ve all been...

Beckett's back, but this time he isn't worried about a new tattoo...unless it's a prison tat, that is. He should have seen this coming; After all, a person can only go around extracting his unique brand of justice for so long without drawing unwanted attention. Caught between a scalpel and a bedpan, only an unlikely ally can help keep him out of prison. But this will require revealing his true self, including the icky parts that Beckett has never shown to anyone. This also means putting the people he cares for in danger.

At a secretive medical institute, cutting-edge stem cell therapies offer hope of reversing aging itself. But as powerful elites line up for a chance at immortality, the experimental treatments reveal chilling side effects. Alexa Hampton only wanted to extend her life. Now she's fighting to hold on to her memories, her identity, and her very humanity. Across the country, journalist Stone Aimes races to expose the truth behind the institute's astonishing breakthroughs before it's too late.

Milan, Italy, today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?

Elaine Watkins knew there would be challenges loving the great Dr. Xavier Vincent - medical icon, enigmatic genius and broken man - but when she finds herself the focus of the Society, a group sociopaths who manipulate people for pleasure and sport, finding someone she can trust becomes her biggest test.

A mother and her son have been executed in their home and fingerprint matches show their attacker died 20 years ago. When CSI Darby McCormick is called to the crime scene, it’s one of the most gruesome she’s ever seen. But the forensic evidence is even more disturbing: someone watched the murder unfold – and the killer died in a shoot-out two decades earlier. The deeper Darby digs, the more horrors come to light.

Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. PECCAVI The Latin is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling...

After brain surgeon Dr. Danny Tilson performs several intracranial surgeries, patients and staff acquire a strange meningitis that sweeps nationwide at breakneck speed. The root of the outbreak is an enigma, and the CDC, a neurologist, and an infectious disease specialist are called in for their expertise.

Detective Ryan Boone just can't let this case go. While the mystery behind the robbery and murders in Twisted was uncovered a few months back, there is still a very large loose thread that Boone desperately wishes to tie up. He convinces his superiors to allow him to travel to Ottawa, where he's uncovered a lead into a conspiracy that hints what happened in Toronto has nationwide, and horrific, implications. Former detective Cora Porter has moved to forensics, but when a strange case hits close to home, she squeezes her way into the investigation.

From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more...

Lucas Grafton has spent the last ten years hunting the Conclave, a secret organization who took everything from him, including his very identity. Now he has a lead—an imminent terrorist attack on London—codenamed "Descartes." Jenna Young can't believe she was attacked and barely escaped with her life. Now she's on the run with a stranger and racing against the clock. With only a note left by her father after his death, telling her to use the codeword "Descartes" to get the pills that slow the progression of her illness, Jenna has only days before her body will start to deteriorate.

Eine junge Patientin stirbt in den Flammen, eine zweite wird vermisst. Welche Rolle spielt Psychiater Jungbluth, Chefarzt der forensischen Klinik? Die erste Staffel des Psychothrillers "Der Ornithologe" von Beststellerautor Tibor Rode und Ina Wolff fesselt mit 3D-Audioeffekten und Vogelstimmen, die ein düsteres Geheimnis verbergen.

What if a single strain of bacteria were responsible for over 300 diseases affecting Americans today, including: Multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Lou Gehrig's disease, Alzheimer's, and chronic fatigue syndrome? And what if the federal government were responsible for the outbreak of these bacteria? Connecticut State Police Detective Taylor Marshall is contending with an all-boys' club at work. When she is assigned a homicide case involving a retired government scientist she is determined to solve it..

For software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, his private compound on the Florida coast is a sunny no-man’s-land separating his family from the rest of the world. Now, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies of the renowned Locard Institute have been summoned to its dark side. Martin’s pregnant daughter, Ashley, had ventured on a day trip in her motorboat into the Gulf, only to wash up dead on a nearby shore. Although the local coroner determined her death was an accident, Ellie and Rachael soon confirm Martin’s gravest fear: His daughter was murdered.