Cozy Mystery Medical

When nurses start disappearing, two women refuse to stay silent. When the evidence doesn't add up, they won't back down. Piper Quinn and Jeannie Hatcher aren't your typical travel nurses. They're the ones who stumble onto crime scenes that make no sense. First there's a crime scene but no body. Next there's a body but no crime scene! While the police grow suspicious of these two overly curious nurses, Piper and Jeannie know they can't sit on the sidelines while their colleagues vanish without a trace. They've never solved a crime. They're not detectives. They're nurses! They can handle ...

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. The town's local detective, Jack Irvin, has an eye for Meghan, but will she find time to build a romance while she tries to clear her name?

The Vital Signs Mysteries: The Complete Six-Book Collection Travel nurse Sandra Tungsten takes one-year contracts at hospitals across the country, bringing her sharp clinical skills and her therapy dog Hypocrates to communities that need them both. But no matter how far she travels, death has a way of following her through the door. From misty mountain towns to sun-scorched desert clinics, snowbound hospitals to bayou parishes in full Mardi Gras swing, Sandra keeps stumbling onto cases that everyone else wants to call accidents, suicides, or tragic misfortunes. She knows better. The vital ...

Something unusual is going on with the dementia patients at Pleasant View Nursing Home. Dr. Jim Bob Brady, Houston orthopedic surgeon and amateur sleuth, finds himself in the midst of a different type of medical mystery. His friend and colleague, Dr. James Morgenstern, refers him a series of dementia patients with orthopedic problems from Pleasant View Nursing Home. Each patient dies, irrespective of the treatment, a situation that Doc Brady is unaccustomed to. Each death prompts an autopsy, performed by another Brady colleague, Dr. Jeff Clarke, who discovers unusual brain pathology in each...

Dr. Jim Bob Brady, orthopedic surgeon and amateur sleuth, is spending a one-month sabbatical trying to decide whether to remain in his position at University Hospital in Houston, Texas, or move to the Hill Country and work in a more relaxed atmosphere, now that he’s the recipient of a windfall legacy. Scaling back would provide him much more free time to golf and spend time with his wife, Mary Louise, and rest, as his wife so aptly puts it. They are renting a condo on the waters of Lake LBJ while making potentially life-changing decisions. As the sabbatical winds down, Jim Bob comes ...

Doc Brady became an orthopedic surgeon to avoid being surrounded by death. But now it's everywhere around him. One spring day in 1994 Houston, Dr. Jim Bob Brady witnesses his neighbor's ten-year-old son killed by a hit-and-run driver. An accident, or an act of murder? After the death, Brady enlists the help of his twenty-year-old son J. J. and his wife Mary Louise in chasing down clues that take them deeper and deeper into a Houston he never imagined existed. In the process, they discover a macabre conspiracy stretching from the ivory towers of the largest teaching hospital in Texas, to ...

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A prescient new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Avery Keene series, by nationally renowned author and leader Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice follows Avery down a dark rabbit hole into the breathtaking—and dangerously evolving—world of AI in the...

Travel nurse Sandra Tungsten arrives in the misty mountain town of Rainier Ridge, Washington, expecting a quiet year at Pineview General Hospital. With her therapy dog Hypo by her side, she's ready to keep her head down, do her job, and stay invisible—just like she always does. But when the hospital's beloved star surgeon collapses and dies during a routine surgery, Sandra discovers something that doesn't add up: a discarded vial of a rare drug that should never have been in the operating room. When the hospital administrator dismisses her concerns and the local authorities accept the ...

Here together for the first time on CD are the three mysteries that started it all, introducing sexy, savvy ex-cop turned P.I. Kinsey Millhone to listeners everywhere… “A” Is for Alibi Nikki Fife, convicted of murdering her husband Laurence, is out on parole after eight years of prison...

Travel nurse Sandra Tungsten thought she'd left murder behind in the misty mountains of Washington. But when she arrives in the scorching Arizona desert for her next contract at Copper Canyon Clinic, she finds herself in a small town where secrets simmer under the relentless sun. A beloved local herbalist named Marisol Vega has been asking uncomfortable questions about prescribing practices at the clinic—questions that are making powerful people very nervous. When Marisol is found dead in an apparent suicide, Sandra's trained eye catches details that don't add up: wrong-handed evidence, ...

Dr. Jim Bob Brady has settled into his new position at Hill Country Medical Center, and despite his best efforts to slow down the pace of his practice, his schedule is approaching the one he left behind in Houston. He’s also recovering from the death of Sandy Lowell III and the mysteries and tragedies surrounding him and the cosmetic-filler business. There is a new golf club development in Marble Falls called La Cava, with an 18-hole golf course, a clubhouse, and a 300-acre housing project. Brady finds himself in the temporary office—an Airstream trailer—waiting for Patsy Simmons, in ...

Is it medical malpractice, or is the attorney just another ambulance chaser? It’s 1995, and Houston orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jim Bob Brady has been sued for medical malpractice; a mysterious infection caused a knee replacement to end up as an amputation. Donovan Shaw, a ruthless plaintiff’s attorney, has taken the case and doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he and Brady share a number of friends. “It’s not personal!” Shaw says. But it feels personal—especially when Shaw threatens, “I will do anything, and I mean anything, to win the case, even if I have to destroy you and ...

Doc Brady has made the move to Horseshoe Bay and is enjoying a reduced work schedule that affords him the luxury of working four days a week: two in surgery and two in his clinic. Friday and Saturday are golf days, and Sunday is reserved for whatever Mary Louise, his adored wife, wants to do. On one particular Friday, Brady is in the parking lot of the HEB when he witnesses a vintage Rolls Royce slowly crunch into a parked truck. The driver of the Rolls is slumped in his seat. Brady tells an observer to call 911 while he performs CPR. Even though the EMTs arrive quickly, the gentleman dies ...

Inside a small, windowless room, major CEOs plot to kidnap and kill the President of the United States with the aid of an international assassin. A sociopathic, look-alike imposter is inserted in his place, someone with his own agenda. Dr. Zach Webster, a disgraced Washington DC eye surgeon, notices a suspicious difference in the President’s eye exam and becomes a target. Along with the President’s daughter, Sarah, he must evade multiple assassins to discover the truth. The Eye Files blends humor with excitement in this faced-paced, non-stop thrill-ride, from Maine to California and to ...

Plastic surgeon Lou Edwards's life is complicated by two major issues. One, his wife has lupus, possibly due to leaking silicone from breast implants Edwards himself inserted. And two, his malpractice insurance has been canceled, as it has been for many other plastic surgeons, due to the burgeoning breast implant problem. But it gets worse. Shortly after Edwards threatens an insurance company president on national TV, the president is found murdered in his penthouse. Dr. Jim Bob Brady once again finds himself doing a bit of investigating, this time on behalf of a colleague. But how well ...

The owners of No Egrets and their quirky local patrons are back in the long-awaited seventh book in the humorous Oak Island mystery/adventure series! Pay the Sandpiper, the book that answers the sixty-three-thousand-dollar question (almost as important as a sixty-four-thousand-dollar one)—What, exactly, does the gang do when not at the No Egrets bar? It’s the Fourth of July celebration in Southport and Pinhead Paul, the affable fish cleaner at the docks, turns paramedic to help an elderly woman with a medical emergency. Glenda takes a nontraditional (and rather embarrassing) self-...

Dr. Jim Bob Brady receives a call from Burnet County Sheriff Joan Wilcox, now a family friend, asking for his help in solving several murders in her jurisdiction. After years of trying to weasel his way into criminal investigations, he is taken aback, but not yet humbled, by her request. As Brady delves into the heinous crimes, in which each victim has been slain by a hatchet-like weapon, he discovers a common thread: each victim is missing their driver’s license. After study into the lives of the victims, he also finds that each has at one time been a patient in the same mental health ...

Sometimes it takes a village to solve a mystery (or at least the local patrons and owners of No Egrets). One of the regulars, Bobby Portis, has been missing from his barstool at No Egrets for several days. Two others quickly contract mysterious blood diseases. Is there a connection? No Egrets, a quaint bar on Oak Island, North Carolina, is owned by Glenn, a surgeon lured away from the medical field by a swordfish and island life, and his wife Glenda. They join their bar patrons in a search for Bobby and the mystery of the sudden illnesses. “No Egrets: A Glenn and Glenda Oak Island Mystery...

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, ...

A phone call from Belfast shatters Isobel McKenzie’s sleep and her peace. Her nephew, Jack, is safe but two of his friends from Queen’s University are not. Michael is dead and Charlene is in a coma. Isobel leaves for Belfast immediately. The PSNI suspect theft as the motive for the crime but, as Isobel and Jack investigate, they uncover other possible motives: an online bully, a drug connection and ultimately a web of organised crime. A cross-border drug task force is set up and, amidst politics and talk of corruption, the case becomes more and more complicated. Help arrives from London...