Medical Thrillers Fiction

I de minsta av städer finns de största hemligheterna. Ibland så stora att mord är det enda sättet att bevara dem. Efter att hennes äktenskap går i kras söker den danska läkaren Maja Holm tillflykt i en avlägsen norsk kuststad. I ett försök att glömma sitt förflutna och orka med de dygnslånga arbetspassen på det lokala sjukhusets vårdcentral självmedicinerar hon med både alkohol och läkemedel, något som hennes omgivning snart börjar uppmärksamma. När en av hennes akutpatienter dör av en överdos får hennes känslomässiga bedövning ett abrupt slut.

Wien, 1908: Die Stadt erlebt eine sagenhafte Blütezeit von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Doch davon bekommt die schüchterne Jungärztin Fanny Goldmann nur wenig mit, verbringt sie doch am liebsten ihre Zeit mit den Leichen in der gerichtlichen Medizin. Meist spielt sie dort nur die Handlangerin für ihre männlichen Kollegen. Als aber ein toter Obdachloser eingeliefert wird, führt Fanny nachts heimlich eine Obduktion durch und stellt fest, dass es sich um einen gesuchten Meisterdieb, den Sküs, handelt. Fanny beschließt, mehr über den Mord herauszufinden.

Die Bestsellerautorin Henrike Engel mit dem neuen großen Roman über vergangene Zeiten und unbekannte Welten am Hamburger Hafen. Hamburg, 1911: Anne Fitzpatrick behandelt in ihrer Arztpraxis am Hafen immer häufiger chinesische Frauen, die in den Kolonien als Arbeitskräfte angeworben wurden. Viele von ihnen wurden schwer misshandelt. Als eine der Frauen in Annes Armen stirbt, schwört die Hafenärztin die Verantwortlichen zu finden. Zusammen mit Kommissar Berthold Rheydt fängt sie an, in der Schmuckstraße, dem Chinesenviertel auf Sankt Pauli, nachzuforschen.

Peter Valois is about to make history. A scientist on a hot project, his days consist of recording brains and sending the files into robots for "conditioning". His plan is to use the results to fix their behavior, and then use the same method with humans. Peter's been on the straight and narrow and everything is going well, until problems with his teenage son force Peter out of his comfort zone. His scheme to save his son backfires when his cutting-edge research attracts the interest of someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

London, 1628. Nicolaes de Pelgrom, assassin and devoted servant of George Villiers, will do whatever his master asks of him—even if that means enduring the perilous voyage to the Indies to exact a grieving widow's revenge. Making that same journey is Jeronimus Cornelisz, a conniving apothecary determined to escape the backstreets of Amsterdam and become rich beyond imagination. Hired by a criminal mastermind to escort precious cargo to the Indies, he will kill anyone who stands in his way.

With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly, following her COVID booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the onetime Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon fundamentalist.

Jim Grant needs to save his granddaughter before cancer takes her life. He only has 72 hours until she passes away. A SkyBlue Industries representative offers her a chance at a second life inside their "Dreamer" project, but some dreams can become nightmares. How can Jim save himself and Gina from the terrors that lie inside Dreamer?

When Katie finds out that her increasingly unresponsive legs and extreme fatigue is due to multiple sclerosis, she rides an emotional roller coaster - anger, denial, and fear - when faced with a wheelchair-bound existence. She puts her studies at Oxford on hold, and she splits up from her fiancé Mark, even though she still loves him. While undergoing treatment, Katie is diagnosed with MS2 - a virus that paralyses the mind.

Dr Anna McBride’s life is starting to unravel. The mother of two boys and a dedicated GP, she is being sued for medical negligence—a case of delayed diagnosis. Deeply ashamed of her mistake, she doubts her abilities at work and retreats into family life, only to find that her husband seems preoccupied with a younger colleague. As the date for mediation draws closer and the lawyers’ demands become ever more pressing, Anna also senses someone else’s cries for attention—someone who wishes her harm.

Ten strangers, recruited by an edgy new reality show and marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. One dies in a horrible accident. Nine realize they are all past survivors, alive only because they've beaten incredible odds once before. One by one, their hidden secrets are revealed. Eight discover they are trapped. Caught in a game so deadly that the most terrifying experiences of their lives were only its qualifying round, they must now face the greatest danger on the island... each other.

Some see stem-cell research as mankind’s greatest scientific breakthrough; others, a blasphemous attempt to play God. Suddenly, the possibility of immortality exists. Two brothers, both doctors, stand on opposite sides of the controversy. To Arthur Marshak, his work is a momentous gift to humanity. To Jesse Marshak, it is a curse. And between them stands a beautiful, remarkable woman that both brothers will do anything to save.

Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented Life magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nation's most important stories.

Ten years after the deadliest pandemic in human history, the same devastating strain of influenza strikes America without warning. One man holds the key to stopping the deadly outbreak in its tracks and the governments of the world - including his own - will stop at nothing to find him.

Physician Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder while struggling with a painkiller habit. The little village of Kinnaven promises respite, but after Cathy attempts to get an opiate prescription, things don't go well. When she discovers the body of the local Dr Cosgrove, her sanctuary is shattered. Before long, Cathy is swept up in local gossip about the death.

Cindy Mayfield is a OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Special Agent. She joined the OSI to learn more about the government lie called MK-Ultra, a lie she learned about as a Correctional Officer at California Medical Facility. This leads her on the trail of virus and vaccine recipes, and ultimately, to China. Her OSI controller stumbles onto 2020 Presidential Ballots, printed in Guangdong, China. Agent Mayfield discovers a far bigger government lie than MK-Ultra - the COVID virus is tied to a coup d’état of the Presidential Election.

Welcome to Resurrection, a former mining company town with too many dark secrets, where science and religion form a shady alliance. Sixteen-year-old Judy Winstead is forced to move there with her recently widowed mother, but finds few allies among the tight-lipped townsfolk. People who stand out or speak out endanger themselves, while dreadful experiments and worse take place in the caverns and tunnels beneath the town.

Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan seems destined for greatness...until his daughter, Sydney, becomes seriously ill. Now, both parents resolve to do anything to save their daughter's life. But in the twilight world of Briarwood Medical Center, nothing is as it seems. Patients on the brink of death are not only surviving but thriving, while others wither away...and the recoveries all revolve around the ministerings of a mysterious counselor, who takes an unsettling interest in Joanna.

When Dr. Jim Bob Brady goes to visit his uncle Howard on the eve of Howard’s liver transplant for cirrhosis and cancer at University Hospital, Uncle Howard tells Brady a shocking story: He murdered his best friend in his younger days, back when he was a vagabond and rode the rails. Fearing he might not survive the surgery he asks Brady to try and locate the family of the victim and make amends as best as possible.

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene", they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.

Welcome to the world of Catching Babies. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Jay is running from a life he’s tried to leave behind, while Katie sacrifices everything she has to serve an endless parade of needy patients.