Medical Mysteries Fiction

A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

Colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with demanding forensic pathology work and family pressures. The last thing they need is the sudden death of a colleague. Yet when Laurie’s apparently vital and healthy longtime friend Dr. Sue Passero dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, and it falls uncomfortably under Laurie’s purview as the chief medical examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the case, he can hardly refuse.

DROWNING IN FEAR… A young doctor, Vijay Aloosamy, takes a temporary clinic position in the culturally isolated world of Port Simon. A fish out of water, Vijay uncovers deep prejudices and ugly secrets. When law enforcement investigates the criminal activities of the town bully and gun-runner, Frank McNeil, Vijay becomes their key witness. At stake is not only Vijay’s life, but a chance at love and a future free of debilitating fear that has plagued him since childhood. Can Vijay diagnose the danger? Or… will he drown in fear? BULLET BOOKS ON A PLANE… ON A TRAIN…FASTER THAN A ...

She can't remember who she is. But she knows a killer when she sees one. Los Angeles, 1985. Chanel Chase wakes up in the massive concrete halls of LA County Hospital with no memory of her past, a head injury, and a broken leg. The only clue to her identity is a tarnished silver locket containing a faded photograph of a child at a carnival and a weird obsession with finding the perfect chocolate milkshake. When the head pharmacist is found murdered in his office, hospital orderly Eddie Martinez becomes the obvious suspect. Security cameras caught him in the pharmacy the night before, and ...

In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel.

5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow, such excitement it had me turning the pages faster and faster. Tragedy strikes the New Orleans Police Department. A recent shooting involving a police officer from the True Blue squad deeply affects Detective Mario DeLuca, who has a personal connection to the officer. Struggling with the heavy emotional toll of his job and personal life, he finds himself on edge. Meanwhile, Howard, a longtime friend of Mario's, joins forces with him in their dangerous battle against the mob. With the assistance of Julie Wong, they fight back against those determined to take them down ...

On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec 15 years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-'90s New York. It is a ground's-eye view of life on the streets: the shoot-outs, the bad cops, the unhinged medics, the hopeless patients, the dark humor in bizarre circumstances, and one medic's struggle to balance his desire to help against his own growing callousness. This story features lives that hang in the balance, including a single job with a misdiagnosed newborn that sends Cross and his partner into a life-changing struggle between good and evil.

In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

Watch out for that…Pom-A-Weenie? The return of Daniel O’Dwyer! Ripped from the current headlines, Daniel O’ Dwyer is doing his best to survive on his Oak Island paradise during these unprecedented times; through this uncharted territory; in the midst of these seismic events… The pharmacy director at Boiling Grove Community Hospital dies at his desk, leading Daniel back to the hospital, the last place he wants to be. At first, the death seems natural, but with the aid of deceased sovereign Charlemagne, King of the Franks, Daniel discovers more than he bargained for. Meanwhile, ...

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil � human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.

BIG, HARD, and READY for action! These three books and packed full of hot young men and their first gay experience. When they meet their lovers, there is no turning back. It turns out, man on man action is just what they needed. This bundle contains: 1. My Gay Doctor 2. A Ride On His Stallion: The Gay Cowboy's Lover 3. Small Town, Secret Desires Warning: These stories contain filthy, naughty action that might be too hot to handle. Adult readers only.

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

Blood pooled at Hannah’s feet. Phinn was dead. Long hours stuck in a windowless lab, Hannah needed a break. A place to unplug and think. Delivering medical care in the remote Amazon, alongside Alisha and Dan, soon became the most meaningful work of her life. Then terror strikes. Vicious gunmen attack the team’s campsite and murder their guide. The three doctors are taken hostage and forced deep into the deadly jungle—to a hellish realm of lawlessness and cruelty. And they soon realize they will never leave alive. Stateside, an urgent call pulls Thomas Kendrick from the pub. He must ...

Dr. Katheryn Newton has dedicated her brilliant mind to groundbreaking medical research. She’s attempting to save lives and hoping to start a family when a catastrophic twist turns her world upside down. Suddenly, Kate finds herself with the power to invisibly end any life. Within hours, Kate is caught in a moral conundrum and trapped in a web of deception. She fights on, fiercely determined to help her country and the planet, but it’s tough when doing good means being bad—and dangerous when someone knows your secret.

At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.

A must-listen thriller from the author of Dead Already.