Medical Thriller Serial Killer

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Who’s killing the cancer researchers? A leading clinical investigator is butchered in his hotel room hours after receiving a prestigious award for cancer research. Weeks later, a second researcher is the victim of an apparently random mugging in a parking garage. Unexpectedly, crime scene DNA establishes that the two men were killed by the same woman. But her identity remains unknown, her motive is mysterious, and the connections between the victims are scant—except that they were both collaborating with Professor Brad Parker at the Maine Translational Research Institute. When the ...

Terra scours the streets of California looking for the woman who put a hit out on her life. Over time as her psychosis worsens, she leaves a trail of blood and broken hearts in her path of destruction. Body after body, she takes matters into her own hands determined to get revenge. This is a short fiction book with a medical mystery etched into its plot. As you flip through the pages of this novella, you will come face to face with a case of mistaken identity that will stay with you forever. When it's all said and done not only will you be left in shock, but you might also ask yourself, "...

Homicide Detective Daniel Gray has discovered a chilling truth: Nurse Cathy, a respected caregiver at University Health of South Carolina, is secretly a ruthless serial killer. But before he can act, a devastating car crash leaves Gray trapped in his own body - conscious yet paralyzed, unable to move or speak. In a cruel twist of fate, Nurse Cathy becomes Gray's primary caregiver. As he lies helpless in his hospital bed, Gray is forced to listen as she whispers her darkest secrets, taunting and terrorizing him with the knowledge he cannot share. With each passing day, more patients succumb ...

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...

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.

‘When you hide the truth from yourself, you keep the Devil’s secret...’ Sarah Kingsmoor has built a successful career as a family doctor in an idyllic market town. She lives in the cottage of her dreams, enjoys rewarding friendships, and leads the life she’s always wanted for herself. She’s convinced of this. One spring evening, Sarah stumbles upon a brutal mugging. Her intervention saves the victim’s life. And a series of events is set in motion which will jar Sarah loose from her comfortable existence, and change her forever. As she finds herself drawn increasingly closer to ...

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, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon". The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault.

Marissa Thomas’s childhood story was that of Hospitals, Doctors, and Clinics. She was sure she would die before they figured out what was causing her cycle of sickness. Now an adult, Marissa felt a calling to help others in need. She became the finest head nurse one small-town hospital had ever seen. She was hailed a hero, saving little lives who were also on the brink of death. Or were they?

Daniel wants his meat body back. They stole his organs when he was a child. With his failing 3D-printed parts, he's barely survived to see his 18th birthday. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his low-resolution lungs spasm in winter. Daniel has had enough. He wants the organs he was born with. But their new owners won't return them. Not without a fight. If you enjoy cyberpunk futures like Blade Runner and Altered Carbon, you'll love Defragmenting Daniel. Buy the Defragmenting Daniel box set now. "What a book this is. Fresh. Dark. A completely different work of ...

Amazon Description: SUBJECT 31 Q thought the worst part of his IRS transfer would be the paperwork. Then he learned he was Subject 31. In 1952, Dr. Edwin Marsh hung himself in a psychiatric hospital at exactly 8:47 PM. His suicide note read: "My work continues." Bobby "Q" Sands doesn't believe in ghosts. The 30-year-old IRS agent wants a fresh start after his divorce. When he transfers to a quiet field office in Mays Landing, New Jersey, he expects boring tax forms and empty cubicles. What he gets is a number: Subject 31. The office is massive—ten stories—but almost empty. Only twelve ...

Some houses never forget what happened inside them. Real estate agent Rebecca Torres specializes in the properties no one else will touch—homes where murders occurred, families died, and darkness lingers in every room. She tells herself she's helping people move on from tragedy. She's wrong. Her clients aren't buying houses. They're collecting crime scenes. When Rebecca discovers her buyers are recreating the original murders with disturbing accuracy, she realizes she's been providing detailed instruction manuals for wealthy psychopaths who pay premium prices for authentic killing ...

All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer. Field of Graves reveals the origins of some of J.T. Ellison's most famous creations: the haunted Lieutenant Taylor Jackson; her blunt, exceptional best friend, medical examiner Dr. Samantha Owens; and troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin.

Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide. When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life. What secrets does the water conceal? The girl in the water marks the third such case in the area - all drowned with superficial stab wounds and discovered in a body of water - and Darger feels certain she won't be the last. The corpses are badly decomposed.

"Master storyteller Steven F. Freeman introduces plenty of suspects and a few red herrings. In classic whodunnit fashion, it’s almost the end when the killer is revealed, and I’m sure every reader will be as shocked as I was. I got so engrossed in the story that I had to find out the answer and stayed up well into the night to finish the book." Readers’ Favorite When an unstoppable murderer matches wits with relentless detectives… A serial killer is terrorizing the streets of Washington, D.C. In a sign of unparalleled rage, the murderer carves a mysterious symbol into the dead flesh...

Three university scientists are found dead in a gruesome murder-suicide, and the only suspect in the case, Victor Lazar, is quickly captured. When the spate of violent suicides follows him to prison he is moved to solitary confinement, reserved for the highest-risk inmates. And then his assigned psychologist inexplicably takes his own life. Alex Madison, a former forensic psychologist turned private therapist, is brought in to interview Victor. He suspects that Victor is controlling his victims, somehow coaxing them into a suggestive trance.

After orchestrating a daring prison escape, familiar foe and serial killer Dr. Hans Berger strikes a deal with Russian oligarch Vladimir Pusinsky: gender reassignment surgery in exchange for help seeking revenge against Dimase Augustin. As the clock ticks down, Berger and Pusinsky close in on Dimase's love interest Katie Fallon-- Augustin must race to protect her and bring both criminals to justice before their intricate plot succeeds.

Daniel is running out of time… Kage is hot on his trail, on the cusp of catching the Organ Thief. Meanwhile, cracks form in Daniel’s fragile alliance with Margaret, as he struggles to contain the android’s insatiable bloodlust. To be truly whole again, Daniel must become more than the sum of his parts. But can he avoid falling to pieces in the process? Slice deeper into the Bubble. You’ll love the plot twists in this third book in the series, The Boy Without a Heart. Get it now.

Michael Thompson had no idea that his camping trip to Dark Hollow Falls would be his worst and last day on earth or that his teenage daughter, Sydney, would be gravely wounded and orphaned in the same savage attack. Sydney’s ultimate betrayal occurred at the one place she believed was her sanctuary. When that realization coalesced with the certainty her father was dead, Sydney’s only wish was to linger in her semi-conscious state until she could die. Psychologist and FBI agent Shawn Cleary begins her investigation without knowing that the man who will become the Park Slasher is still a ...