Nurse Thriller

Bullied, overlooked and under-appreciated, Lissa McColl learns at an early age to do very bad things. As a nurse, she is respected and valued for the first time in her life. But Lissa hates her job and the selfish, rude and inconsiderate people she has to deal with. But being underestimated in this job had its advantages. Lissa can get close to people, find out their secrets… sometimes with deadly results.

The job offer seemed too good to be true. It was. Sophie Chen needs to disappear. When a private nursing position opens at the remote Baxter Estate—isolated, well-paying, no questions asked—she takes it without hesitation. Her patient: Richard Baxter, a wealthy tech investor left paralyzed and mute after a stroke. Her employer: his elegant, cold wife Claudia. Sophie's job is simple. Keep Richard comfortable. Follow Claudia's rules. Don't ask questions. But something is wrong in this house. The locked rooms. The missing staff. The way Richard's eyes follow her with desperate intensity. ...

My name is Sarah Shaw. I’m a nurse. I’m working at the hospital on my usual night shift when I receive an urgent call from the nurse’s station. As I rush down the brightly lit corridor, I see two police officers. And I know it’s terrible news.... The words blur together as the officer standing in front of me tells me that my husband, William, is dead. We were only married for a few short months. Our life together hadn’t even started. Now I’m 30 years old and a widow. As the investigation begins, all eyes are on me: the young wife.

Then: Morning light shines into the nursery, casting shadows across the pale pink walls and wooden cot in the middle of the room. She opens the door expecting to hear the soft coo of her daughter, Sofia, stretching herself awake. But the room is silent. The cot is empty. Her little girl has vanished. Now: Twelve years have passed, but Emily will never forget the night her life changed forever, and she’s happy to have her daughter back beside her. A teenager now, Sofia started asking questions about when she was a baby.

Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor's husband, a surgeon, and now she is a "person of interest" if not an outright suspect. But someone other than the police is also watching Cheryl Beth.

"Crossover appeal to fans of medical suspense and such authors as Tess Gerritsen." Library Journal "The plot is interesting and the resolution filled with action." Romantic Times BOOKreviews "I gave you fair warning." Willow Traynor had it all. Respected ICU nurse, wife of an undercover policeman and an expectant mother. Then her husband was shot and killed. And she received a crank call saying, "I gave you fair warning." A month later, she was the victim of a hit-and-run and she lost her baby. Again, the caller strikes with the same warning. Fearing for her life, Willow fled Kansas City to...

Follow Dr. Jim McCray through a single twelve-hour night shift working in the emergency room of a small Midwestern hospital. The fast-paced writing chronicles Dr. McCray’s experience with wit and candor as he manages a series of typical but poignant patient interactions. The book dives deeply into the practice of modern emergency medicine with detailed descriptions of medical care and procedures. It is based on the author’s real-life experiences as a young resident physician.

What happens when science goes too far? Chimera Secrets feature five stories about genetically altered humans who find love. A Nurse for a Wolfman: Only love can tame the beast. Guarding the Mermaid: Love is even more slippery than this mermaid when wet. The Lionman Kidnapping: It’s not just his mane that’s impressive. A Chimera’s Revenge: A mad scientist. An even madder patient. A fiery kind of love. Capturing a Unicorn: Will he betray or save the world’s only unicorn?

"I really enjoyed this one. I honestly couldn't put it down. The ending was a total surprise. I'm still thinking about it!" - #1 Amazon and USA TODAY bestselling author Freida McFadden ER physician and medical researcher, Drake Cody, has developed an experimental drug that may treat spinal cord injury and help the paralyzed walk. A massive Big Pharma pay-off awaits twisted pharmaceutical genius Meryl Kampf if she can pirate Drake's breakthrough. Meryl, while ingesting increasing doses of cocaine and steroids, spearheads agents of an international crime syndicate and a traitor none suspect, ...

From the author of the Vietnam War novel, Brown Water A literary novel about the tunnel rats of Vietnam. Until now. Cu Chi, November 1967. The tunnels run for two hundred miles beneath the red dirt of South Vietnam—three levels deep, carved by hand, invisible from the surface. The Viet Cong live in them, fight from them, vanish into them. The U.S. Army sends men down to find them. Earle Cain is one of those men. A coal miner's son from Virginia, he carries a .45 pistol and a flashlight into tunnels so narrow he cannot turn around. Fourteen inches wide. Twenty inches high. Absolute dark. ...

Nell Sweeney has led an ordinary life. Every day, she walks to and from the hospital where she works as a nurse, believing that no harm can befall her. Until one day she is taken. Because someone out there has a secret. Someone out there has been watching Nell—and they’ve been watching others like her, too. Nell is the unlucky one—she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And if she isn’t found soon, someone will make sure that she isn’t the last woman to be taken.

The desert keeps its secrets buried deep. But the crows remember everything. For years, the disappearance of young Lalia has hung over the Navajo landscape like a shadow that refuses to lift. For Kaelen, a relentless cop haunted by his own history, the case file has never truly closed. But seeking answers means treading a dangerous line where his badge clashes directly with ancient tribal law and closely guarded community secrets. When Debora, a local nurse with an uncanny ability to notice things others miss, experiences a hostile vision that smells like rain, the cold trail suddenly turns...

She was the kind nurse who brought cakes in. She remembered birthdays. She did the night shifts nobody else wanted. By the time the consultants of the Countess of Chester Hospital finally went to the police, seven babies were dead, and the most controversial criminal case in modern British history was about to begin. Lucy Letby Decoded goes beyond the headlines, the verdicts and the noise. It asks the questions the courtroom never quite answered. Why this quiet young woman from a quiet town in Hereford. Why babies. Why the smallest possible victims a country can produce. And why, after ...

Revised - Revamped - Refreshed - 2026 Experience this gripping tale of end-of-life care turned deadly by bestselling author Netta Newbound. While providing compassionate care to footballing legend Charlie Maidley, Lizzi can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right. Why is Charlie being sedated when he isn't in pain or suffering? Determined to uncover the truth, Lizzi makes the fateful decision to wake him up - but at what cost? Soon after, the discovery of a woman's body on the property sends shockwaves through the community. A killer on the loose has Lizzi questioning her every...

My first mistake was falling in love with the handsome, married doctor. My second mistake was killing him… I never meant to hurt anyone. I’m a nurse, it’s my job to help people. But sometimes in life things happen that you don’t expect, and you’re pushed to extremes. I can’t let anyone find out what I’ve done... or why I did it. If the secrets of my past come out then it’s not just my life at risk, it’s my family’s too–darling little Campbell, just five years old and completely innocent. I have to protect him.

Hospice nurse Claire Arden returns to Halcyon House, the private memory-care hospital where her mother died, expecting quiet shifts, locked medication carts, and families desperate for one more lucid hour. Then three patients with dementia begin remembering the same impossible crime. Each recalls a vanished child, a midnight fire, and a clinical trial that was supposedly canceled thirty years ago. Their details should not match. Their charts say they never met. But someone inside Halcyon is changing records before Claire can prove what they know. As Claire follows falsified consent forms, ...

He is the best nurse on the floor. Everyone says so. When alarms sound in the small hours of the morning at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island, Ricardo is always first through the door — calm, skilled, indispensable. In seven months on the overnight ICU shift, he has responded to thirty-seven code blue emergencies. What no one knows is that one nurse has caused most of them. Detective Lisa Moretti sees a pattern in the numbers that no one in the hospital wants to acknowledge. Nurse Chantal Harper sees something in Ricardo's eyes during a code that she cannot explain and cannot ignore....

In this vintage locked-room murder-mystery box set, Nurse Sarah Keate is paired with detective Lance O’Leary, to solve each case before more victims fall to the murderer’s hand. Although Nurse Keate places high value on her professionalism, she is unable to resist the pull of solving a good mystery, proving herself a worthy detective in her own right, earning Detective O'Leary's respect and admiration.

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Recovery nurse Maya Rook takes the overnight shift on the twelfth floor of St. Brigid's Mercy, a failing charity hospital where the elevators skip levels, donors get private rooms, and uninsured patients vanish into paperwork. When a post-op patient wakes terrified and whispers that he was moved to a floor that officially does not exist, Maya assumes anesthesia has blurred his memory. Then a second patient says the same thing. Then a third dies with a billing code written on his palm. Maya follows falsified consent forms, erased camera logs, and a surgical schedule that lists procedures no ...