Medical Thrillers Fiction

Högt uppe i Anderna i Sydamerika hittar en arkeolog en urgammal gravplats. Ovetande om vad som finns i den öppnar han graven och släpper därmed ut bakterier som utrotade en hel civilisation genom pesten för mer än 5000 år sedan. En dödlig organism har släppts fri och det finns inget botemedel. Ett fartyg skickas till Peru för att undsätta de som blivit smittade. Ett fartyg som snart kommer att gå under namnet Pestskeppet. Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) var en amerikansk författare vars böcker har sålt i cirka 60 miljoner exemplar över hela världen.

When Alex Williams - a quiet, Deaconess Hospital Laboratory employee - falls ill with a highly contagious and lethal infection, the entire hospital staff panics. Hospital executives are concerned about the hospital’s image and the possible negative publicity. And Maggie Hamilton, the Infectious Diseases Specialist, is perplexed as to where he could have acquired the disease. As more evidence surfaces, the medical specialist and her newfound FBI friend find themselves traveling across the country to locate the perpetrators, before the elixir is unleashed upon the world.

Meet George: He's an ordinary guy who suffers some memory loss and finds himself suddenly stranded 142 years in the future. But it's not magic, it's science. Step into the dazzling world of 2163 with him and hold on tight. In the near future, he finds ageing has slowed to a crawl, dramatically extending prime of life and reshaping the fabric of society in the process. George is an experiment gone partially right; at an underground cryonic reanimation program. But can this team of rogue doctors handle the repercussions?

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator's son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind's Eye.

You must really love this place if you want to return so badly. Or perhaps you just want to spend some more special time with Doctor Sababa, our internal medical consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital. He would have amused you with his wit and wisdom and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight. Before there was artificial intelligence, he was the real thing, working in the mysterious old ways of a masterless samurai.

In the fall of 2018, Dr. Gennifer Drake’s body washes up on a foggy beach on Galveston Island. Her death propels her two closest friends, Dr. Louise Finerty and Dr. Marnie Liccione to investigate. They discover Gen was researching a deadly new form of dengue fever at the ultra-high security Gulf National Laboratory. Aided by climate change, this mosquito borne illness, known as Break Bone Fever, is spreading northward and threatening lives in the United States.

Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans. Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary Newton, nouvellement arrivée, soupçonne une grippe banale d'être à l'origine de leur maladie. Très vite, le docteur et les habitants d'Olney St. Mary sont plongés dans un cauchemar, alors que la maladie ravage la population locale. Bien que les médecins utilisent les derniers médicaments disponibles, le nombre de morts ne cesse d'augmenter.

When a rare plant living within the most remote reaches of the Amazon rain forest is discovered to contain a key ingredient for a promising COVID-19 cure, a high-powered pharmacologist teams up with a renegade botanist to locate and retrieve specimens of the elusive plant. But the unlikely pair soon learns they are not the only ones who seek the valuable biological resource.

Gabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel Prize for inventing a vaccine for AIDS. But now, he has Alzheimer’s, and his mind is slowly slipping away. When one of the residents comes down with a horrific virus, Gabriel realizes that he is the only one who can find a cure. Encouraged by Victor, an odd stranger, he convinces the administrator to allow him to study the virus. Soon, Gabriel’s hallucinations interfere with his work. Can he find a cure before his brain deteriorates past the point of no return?

In cosmopolitan Johannesburg, three high-flying couples form the core of the elite Khula Society: part investment group, part social club, with meetings where the champagne flows, the dresses are designer and the one-upmanship is off the scale. Noma, Moshidi, Lerato and their husbands are living the dream—or so it appears from the outside. In reality, the cut and thrust of ‘keeping up with the Khulas’ is taking its toll on all three couples.

In the halcyon days of the 23rd century, human beings are healthier, more beautiful, and more long-lived than ever before thanks to regeneration therapy from the Global Health Directorate. The assassination of a Directorate scientist starts a war between a genocidal bureaucracy and a group of self-mutilating religious fanatics.

Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home with his beloved wife, Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who’s a very good girl. But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon - and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived.

Alice needs a vacation to escape her family, unemployment, and a global pandemic. When the world shuts down due to a new virus, Zenith Pharm, a major drug manufacturer, reveals a breakthrough in vaccine development and offers individuals an all-expenses-paid trip to a remote resort with an on-site testing facility. Between the constant parties and pool-side recreations, Alice and the other guests experience haunting nightmares, and people begin to disappear. Something dark lurks behind this exclusive resort, and Alice learns that Zenith Pharm has more malicious plans for its guests.

Eine Ärztin im Hamburg der Kaiserzeit kämpft für die Rechte von Frauen. Hamburger Hafen, 1910: Anne Fitzpatrick ist eine der ersten Ärztinnen Deutschlands und arbeitet im neuen Frauenhaus. Dort kümmert sie sich vor allem um Frauen, denen von ihren Männern großes Leid zugefügt wurde. Als die Pastorentochter Helene bei ihr auftaucht und mithelfen will, unterstützt Anne die junge Frau in ihrem Wunsch, etwas Sinnvolles zu tun. Da wird neben dem Frauenhaus im Wasser eine Leiche entdeckt. Anne ist schockiert. Das Opfer war Mitglied der neuen Frauenbewegung, so wie sie selbst auch.

Greedy class-action lawyer Jack Gamble finds himself on a modern-day leper colony, where he fights bounty hunters and cannibals. During his journey, Jack finds compassion even for the cannibals who would like to capture and cook him. Jack rediscovers his own capacity to love and is driven to try to get back to his girlfriend, Maddy. Can he overcome these obstacles and get back to the woman he loves?

Susan has been trying for a baby for years, and when a one-night stand makes her dream come true, she’ll do anything to ensure her husband doesn’t find out - including the unthinkable. Her secret is safe. For now. But as governments embark on a genetic arms race and children around the globe start experiencing a host of distressing symptoms, something truly horrendous is unleashed. Because those children have only one thing in common and people are starting to ask questions.

FBI Medical Examiner Dr. Jessica Coran's talents have been requested in Philadelphia in the wake of a series of bizarre murders attributed to a maniac called The Poet. His calling card is a scroll of human parchment engraved with toxic verse.

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.

After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence.