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....

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....

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....

One suicide. Every year. Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago....

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....

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......

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts....

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....

Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino....

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....

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead....

Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London.

Former naval doctor Peter Crane is summoned to an oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition. But he learns that the real trouble lies far below....

Ready for a book that's a blend of murder mystery, a sprinkle of romance, and a dash of futuristic genetic science? Then you'll enjoy The RH Factor! In the small town of Snoqualmie, Washington, where misty forests meet the beautiful Snoqualmie Falls, this picturesque landscape and its surrounding quaint towns are the canvas for this murder mystery full of twists and turns.After a body is discovered in a parking lot, it's up to local police detective Paxton Tavish, to find the killer. With the help of private detective Regina Harrington, the victim's niece, Pax unravels the layers of ...

Film noir meets Jurassic Park. Petra is a medical engineer for zoologists and fertility clinics. Why is she getting death threats, and what did she do to merit an ankle monitor? As the science advisor to a major contender for the presidency, she needs a PR boost. Hendrix is on his fourth career, having failed as a rock guitarist and a war journalist. His last chance is to write a book that makes the country support this abrasive scientist. He’s always been a sucker for a woman in trouble. Warning: this novel talks about the science and ethics of how babies are made.

Bestselling author, Monica Arya flips the script with this revenge and obsession based thriller for fans of Dexter and You. Living in the shadows for years means you know just how dark things can be. She’s married to the man who should have been mine. She’s raising the child who should have been mine. She’s living the life that should have been mine. Her family destroyed and tormented me. They thought they had gotten rid of me like mere trash. But here I am. Lurking in the shadows. Watching their every move, plotting and planning. They thought they were powerful. But here I am. I may ...

A controversial, frightening bio-thriller that blurs the line between truth and fiction, Upon A Pale Horse raises disturbing questions about the man-made origin of nightmare epidemics, and posits a conspiracy so plausible that it will linger long after the novel's shocking conclusion. When young attorney Jeffrey Rutherford's brother is killed in a plane crash minutes after takeoff from JFK, his life is turned upside down - especially when he discovers that his brother's career wasn't what it seemed. Jeffrey's staid existence is upended as he races to unravel a Gordian knot of deceit and ...

Sometimes the past should remain hidden. Underwater archeologists have discovered a lost, encoded manuscript linked to Saint Theo Erkenwald, a seventh century Benedictine monk. When a team of scholars unravels the secrets embedded in the medieval document, they realize the long-hidden knowledge threatens the entire world with a disaster of biblical proportions. The threat grows even more urgent when the details of their discovery fall into the hands of a shadowy organization with sinister motives. Racing to trace the leaked data, the team must combine their modern expertise with the buried ...

“Espionage, perilous international affairs, and cynicism can all be found in the chilling novel Forever. Cooper has delivered another riveting novel to keep you on the edge of your seat!” Manhattan Book Review Will medical research unravel the secret to immortality? Or will it be stolen by a master of manipulation, deceit, and murder? Professor Brad Parker is enjoying his sabbatical in one of Harvard’s leading genomic engineering labs, focused on altering the human genome to meet challenges like treating cancer and increasing longevity. Then he’s interrupted by a surprise request ...

After a botched procedure leaves a young female patient permanently disfigured, Dr. Marks's pristine facade begins to crack. With a malpractice suit pending and her personal life in ruins, it makes sense that Selene is desperate for a reprieve. Only when she doesn't show for work one day-no call, no note-colleagues quickly realize she's not taking time off . . . she's missing.

"Behind the Red Line" by V.V. Liles unravels a gripping narrative of one woman's harrowing journey through the murky depths of medical corruption within a prestigious Heart Institute. Victoria Villa, Director of Operations, finds her world turned upside down when a celebrated yet morally compromised cardiac surgeon, Dr. Shetan Pathan, descends upon the institute.

Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and lifestyle to predict how much—or little—time you’ve got left. That’s all well and good, but he’s also bought them for his daughter, his grandchildren, and even his eleven-year-old great-grandson. He wants them each to wait until their next birthday to use the app. But whether they scoff at it, sneak an early look, desperately turn into a health nut, or die before their appointed time, the gift is wreaking havoc.

With a virus ravaging the globe and pushing the worlds' governments and America's institutions past the breaking point, outgoing Senate Majority Leader John Angelbaum recruits his protégé, Chase Porter, to run for his seat. But the idealistic young district attorney soon comes to realize that the two have very different ideas about duty to country—and that what Angelbaum needs most from him is blind loyalty to a soon-to-be-discovered plan to establish a radical new world order.

A thought-provoking thriller in the vein of the futuristic technologies of Michael Crichton merged with the intensity of a Robin Cook medical mystery, MYND Control will make you never want to use your smartphone again. MYND Control merges the disturbing world of neuro-marketing with the personal invasion of real-time advertising and provides a glimpse into the near future. Don’t be surprised when this technology comes soon to your smart phone and tablet! Programmer Vega Swift is struggling to care for herself and her ailing mother, stricken with early-onset Alzheimer’s. When the ...

Dr. Raymond Verity came back to life today. Awakening from an optical-cerebral transplant into a clone body, Ray is amazed at how society changed in the 27 years he was cryo-preserved. Having pioneered cloning technology based on fetal tissue experiments, he has no qualms destroying imperfect samples. Until he meets his only granddaughter and falls in love with her despite her Down Syndrome.

Everyone has secrets… …but not like June's. Her secret will cost her father’s life…and maybe her own. June never asked to be created in a laboratory where human cloning is illegal. She never asked to keep her creation a secret for fear the man who made her—her father—would be arrested for his crimes, but most of all, she never asked for the faulty heart that beats inside her chest. After avoiding her paranoid drunken father for her entire adulthood, he shows up on her doorstep to warn her that people are after him for the secrets he keeps about how she was created. Without a ...

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.