Medical Mystery Dark

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

A USA TODAY bestseller! In this propulsive new installation of the bestselling and award-winning series, Peter Ash rides to the aid of an investigative reporter who may have stumbled on a story more explosive than even Peter can handle. Usually, investigative journalist Katelyn Thorsen just...

A vivid, frightening novel collection of nine strange, dark, and mysterious stories, based on true events, from the mind behind the YouTube channel and hit MrBallen Podcast John Allen, known popularly as “MrBallen,” has been enthralling audiences with his unique brand of storytelling ever...

Five thousand dollars. One night. Pretend to be a stranger's wife. June Marlowe has played a hundred forgettable roles. But when she's hired to impersonate a missing woman at a family gathering in a private hospital wing, she walks into a performance with no script and no way out. As the night spirals, June realizes she wasn't hired to save a marriage. She was hired to bury a secret. And the woman she's pretending to be is still in the building. Because in this family, inconvenient people don't disappear. They get stored.

Love leaves roses. Power leaves bodies. In Saint James Black Parish, Valentine’s Day ends in blood. Kwame Mensah — financier, kingmaker, the untouchable “Golden Banker of the Apex” is discovered butchered in a hidden Basin apartment, his hands removed with surgical precision, a silver hatchet gleaming like a signature beside him. By sunrise, the city has already decided who must fall. His wife. Chloe Mensah married into a dynasty built on couture, currency, and quiet brutality. Now she stands at the center of a scandal that reeks of ritual murder and resurrects the Woodshed Homicide...

Dr. Theo Cray has a legendary mathematical knack for catching serial killers. Until his exposure to a mind-altering pathogen knocks him off his game. It has upended an investigation, destroyed his reputation, and left him to question his own sanity. One person still trusts him to finish the job. His former professor Amanda Paulson is helping point Cray down a logical path to his prey: a nomadic health-care worker whose murder spree stretches back decades and whose victims number in the hundreds.

For fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell comes a twisted psychological thriller about a desperate woman, a wealthy family's dark secrets, and the terrifying price of silence. She needed a fresh start. She got a nightmare instead. When Emma Rourke accepts a live-in position caring for twelve-year-old Oliver Lawrence, she thinks she's found the perfect escape. The pay is generous, the estate is stunning, and no one will think to look for her here. All she has to do is follow the rules, keep her head down, and guard the secrets of her past. But the Lawrence household has secrets of its own....

Behind the locked doors of medical examiner offices and hospital basements lies a world few people ever see. The autopsy room is where science meets death—where investigators search for answers in silence, steel, and fluorescent light. But sometimes the work takes an unsettling turn. In this chilling collection, 30 true stories from the autopsy room reveal the strange, disturbing, and occasionally inexplicable moments reported by forensic workers, pathologists, morgue technicians, and investigators. These accounts include unusual discoveries during examinations, eerie events that occurred...

He confessed to murder on tape. Then he swore he never made the recording. Legal transcriptionist Lena Ashford hears lies for a living. But nothing prepares her for the anonymous audio file that arrives late one night. The voice on the recording belongs to her husband, Caleb. Calm. Clear. Unmistakable. And he is confessing to the murder of a missing woman named Mira Vale. He gives details no stranger should know. A private recovery clinic. A broken lamp. A blue door. A crime buried six years ago. Then Caleb walks into the room and denies everything. He says he never made the recording. He ...

Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta solves the baffling case of two mauled bodies in the woods and the mysteriously large footprint found nearby in this thriller from a New York Times bestselling author. Scarpetta, based on the character Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is now a streaming series starring...

They were doctors. They were community leaders. They were the family next door. When we think of threats, we picture shadowy figures lurking in the dark. But the most terrifying predators are often the ones we invite into our homes, trust with our health, and see every day. This chilling collection explores twenty deeply researched cases of individuals who used a veneer of extreme normalcy, professional prestige, or suburban charm to mask unimaginable darkness. These are the manipulators who weaponized society's trust to evade detection—sometimes for decades. Delve into the psychological ...

LOUISE PENNY says Nicci French's books are "fabulous." JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson." And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique." Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday, an electrifying, sophisticated psychological thriller about past crimes and present...

This audiobook includes a bonus interview with the author. *INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* *A REESE'S YA BOOK CLUB PICK* Dana Schwartz’s Anatomy: A Love Story is a gothic tale full of mystery and romance. Hazel Sinnett is a...

From the bestselling author and "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a gripping medical thriller: After recovering from coma, Ash discovers that the man who performed her brain surgery has a questionable medical experience and a dark past, starting with his medical mission in India ten years ago and ending just recently, with his wife’s suicide. Should Ash expose him, at the risk of becoming vulnerable to his revenge? In an attempt to learn more, Ash goes on a date with him. The waitress drops a pink cellphone into her hand. Then, she is killed. On the cellphone are his wife’s last words. “Perhaps...

In the shadows of Victorian London, survival is a crime. And Katrin Hess is the only one committing it. Whitechapel, 1880. By day, Katrin Hess is a quiet, scarred woman running a modest apothecary, dispensing cough syrups and headache powders to the poor. But when the gaslights dim and the front door locks, the back door opens. For fifteen years, Katrin has operated in the gray space between medicine and the law, providing the desperate women of the East End with the one thing society refuses them: control over their own bodies. She is meticulous. She is discreet. She is invisible. Until ...

I wasn't hired for my résumé. I was hired for my bones. Three hundred forty-two thousand dollars in debt. Forty-eight hours before the collectors took everything — including my sister's house. Then the contract slid across the mahogany desk. Vaughn Mercer didn't want a wife. He wanted a user interface. A woman who could wear his missing wife's clothes, sign her name, and stand in the floor-to-ceiling windows of his forty-story penthouse so the world would believe Daphne Mercer hadn't vanished. Six months. Total debt elimination. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. All I had to do was ...

She went to her doctor for help carrying less. They used her to carry something else entirely. Chicago. A locked office on the fourteenth floor of a North Michigan Avenue clinic. A psychiatrist found dead in his chair at three in the morning, a half-drunk cup of chamomile tea on the table beside him. The medical examiner rules it a cardiac event. Clean. Plausible. Final. Sylvia Vance doesn't believe it. She hires Mara Voss. Mara is a former FBI forensic psychologist who left the Bureau three years ago under circumstances she hasn't fully explained — not to anyone else, and not entirely to...

Every day at exactly 3:17 p.m., Nathan Vale loses one hour. At first, he thinks it is stress. Then he finds proof that during the missing hour, he is not asleep. He is not unconscious. He is awake, speaking, driving, working, and leaving messages for himself that he does not remember writing. One message changes everything. Do not trust the man who wakes up. Nathan’s wife knows more than she admits. His doctor keeps appearing before Nathan asks for help. His coworker warns him about a file called Mercer-17, a buried incident tied to a woman who died during an experimental memory trial. ...

It's the pharmaceutical breakthrough of the millennium. DruTech Industries proudly presents N-SOM, a pill that completely replaces eight hours of sleep. Feel totally refreshed, both physically and mentally, in just fifteen minutes a night. The profit potential is boundless. Mankind's productivity will go through the roof. One third of a person's life could be recovered, for only ten dollars a dose. The FDA sends CDER agent Dr. Bill May to green light N-SOM for American use. The pressure, both political and monetary, is tremendous.