Medical & Forensic

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why....

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit....

Some doors are locked for a reason.... While 11-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door....

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her....

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions....

Three years after an incurable virus spread and turned a majority of the population into mindless and cannibalistic creatures, the world is a barren place....

It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner....

Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape....

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi....

Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner....

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller....

Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman....

Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe....

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta....

Following the post mortem of a stowaway that reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before......

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....

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning....

Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack....

He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine....

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession . . . until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies....

Always apprehensive about working fire scenes, Tempe is called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a deadly blaze and sees her misgivings justified....

In the quiet town of Elmhurst, where secrets fester like toxins, a simple pond holds the key to unraveling a web of deception that spans generations.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand....

Scientists have developed a way to vaccinate entire cities without consent or the possibility of refusal. The theory is sound, but something goes wrong, and a highly contagious combination of virus and prion is unleashed, a middle-stage organism too dangerous to test.

From international best-selling author Rob Horner comes Into Darkness, the highly anticipated and thrilling continuation of the Richards’ family saga begun in Brightness. The Richards were a regular family living in suburban South Carolina—Michael, Nicole, and their three beautiful daughters, Sarah, Karie, and Sofie. Then Sarah saw a demon, and their world turned upside down. Now they live in North Carolina, and it seems as though things are getting back to normal.

TRUE BLOOD meets INDIANA JONES in this edge of your seat, sexy vampire romance! As a real vampire, a moroi, I’m not undead like the myths. I have a pulse and body heat. These things make it incredibly difficult for a human to identify us. But I wasn’t always a vampire…. I was a wife, a mom, and a physician. On the brink of death, I was cured by becoming a moroi…but things aren’t all peachy. My insatiable thirst has ruined my marriage, taken my children, and plagued me at every turn. All I have left is my job doing research for the vampire run pharmaceutical company Chronos Corp. ...

What's your life worth? A small, struggling pharmaceutical firm is in need of a major new product to survive. Led by a CEO desperate to achieve the fame and fortune he had always expected but had not yet gained, he and his firm are running out of time. On the precipice of bankruptcy, a technological breakthrough is close to fruition. They are in position to finally succeed, if they can only mobilize the resources to conduct a clinical trial that proves the product works. Then a reclusive businessman shows up to make an offer to the CEO. With no other options, the CEO strikes a deal with his...

From pathologist and "Erica Rosen MD" author Deven Greene, TIES THAT KILL is a gripping medical thriller in which a professor recovering from a stroke discovers that he has many half-siblings who may carry the same blood clot risk he does—but someone out there is trying to kill them all. Soon he is in terrible danger even as he must prove his innocence in a series of murders connected by one thing: DNA.

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While Meghan is on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after jumping from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed, and if so, by whom? And why?

An international medical conglomerate secretly creates a state-of-the-art surgical center within the Texas Medical Center district in Houston to perform organ transplants for wealthy patients desperate to find a suitable match at any price. The concierge-style operation uses a public clinic in Monterrey, Mexico to source its organ matches, unbeknownst to the impoverished donors. FBI Special Agent Cortez, while investigating possible cartel connections to the recent murder of a prominent Houstonian, instead uncovers a scheme so despicable that it shocks even the most hardened of law ...

Events start to unravel when the system closes in on a bewildered family. The middle class cossetted family life they had enjoyed and loved. The only life they knew, starts to implode with devastating effects. The perfect family unit enjoyed by so many was the plan, this was not the script. The perfect family who for generations enjoyed paid education, wealth, and privilege. This privileged life had allowed them to build a beautiful family, stunning home, and high net worth social circle in sunny Nottingham.

"A hard-hitting medical thriller with a heart." –Best Thrillers Lee W. Hickok, MD, is an alcoholic. Curiously, his presence is required for New Year's Eve in-hospital overnight call. After consuming sweet amber bourbon, the urologist emergently consults on a difficult case. While the surgery is a success, the reason for his presence becomes apparent; the patient is a powerful politician. At the university, Lee W. is a hero. However, tragedy follows the surgery. The absence of essential equipment is revealed, removal the meddling of the patient's chief of staff. A DWI begins Lee W. on a ...

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.

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close.

THE ARCHER is about a biotech research scientist named Diana who is an avid bow hunter and addicted to lattes. She develops a new drug, REDIGEN, which promotes the growth of red blood cells which is also found to improve stamina in bicycle racers. Several riders training for the Tour de France start using it. Finding that her father, has cancer, she sells her stock in MaxGen and retires to the mountains to be with him. Diana inadvertently discovers that the cause of a rider's death is her drug which has a danberous side effect. Her efforts to reveal the truth motivates many to seek her ...

A hidden war for control erupts in Book 3 of the Big Pharma SeriesA sinister war for control rages on, threatening to destroy everything in its path. Haley Foster's dream of having a family is jeopardized as she becomes further entangled with big pharma. In a desperate attempt to save her own life and that of her unborn child, Haley must face off against the powerful and corrupt force that has left a trail of blood and tears in its wake. With her own life and happiness on the line, Haley must rise to the occasion and eliminate the enemy that holds her down, or risk being overtaken and ...

You can’t see it – smell it – or hear it coming. But everyone is at risk. Discover the diabolical secrets held tightly by those who are on a need to know basis. Even though the clock is ticking, the game is not over. The Foster family and their friends experience the power of hope and perseverance, only to have their beliefs tested at every turn. In Book 2 of the Big Pharma series, there are wins and losses for each. When deleted, encrypted, and incriminating emails are recovered, they become aware of an enemy hidden in plain sight. Haley chalks up a win by discovering Jack’s hidden...

Can one American family and their loyal friends take on Big Pharma? When evil destruction comes after one of their own, the Foster family joins forces. Haley & Jack Foster want the traditional American life - good jobs that contribute to others; a family of their own; and a nice, safe place to live. Fateful events continue to happen, robbing them of their dream.Jack’s career demands are intense in his position as Chief Research Scientist at Chadwell Pharmaceuticals. Since he won’t join the old boys’ club, his research team is targeted, along with him. Events take a turn for the worse ...