Medical Thrillers

Chemistry of Death  by Simon Beckett
Once a high-profile forensic anthropologist, Dr. David Hunter keeps his past a secret while hiding himself in an isolated English village, until he is asked by the police to use his arcane skills to help track down the killer of a young woman, whose murder becomes only the first in a series of twisted mutilation killings.

The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry
A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.

The Plague by Albert Camus
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Mortal Remains by Peter Clement
His suspenseful life as an emergency room doctor intensified by the discovery of a homicide victim from twenty-five years earlier--a woman he had been the last to see alive--Earl Garnet mounts a search for the truth. Also try Lethal Practice.

Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card (Science Fiction)
Frank Hartman, a virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a geneticist who has discovered how to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will.

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child
Summoned to a remote oil rig to diagnose a strange medical ailment among the rig workers, ex-Navy physician Peter Crane soon discovers that the condition is linked to the underwater excavation being done at science research station Deep Storm.

Critical by Robin Cook
Achieving a successful and profitable life in spite of a troubled past, doctor Angela Dawson pursues business opportunities in three major cities only to find her efforts compromised by a surge of drug-resistant staph infections.

Do No Harm by Gregg Hurwitz
A man lays siege to the UCLA Medical Center Emergency Room, attacking nurses by flinging corrosive alkali into their eyes. The first victim, the sister of a belligerent LAPD officer, is lying in critical condition when a second attack occurs, driving Los Angeles into a media frenzy.

The Trudeau Vector by Juris Jurjevics
An American epidemiologist quite literally drops into the frozen Canadian north to find out what has caused several scientists to die spectacularly gruesome deaths. First novelist and Soho Press cofounder Jurjevics weaves his great fondness for the fragile, seductive, polar environment with carefully researched viral lore in a largely successful thriller about bioterror and the pathologists who keep us safe in our beds.

Blood Lies by Daniel Kalla
Ben Dafoe, an ER doctor, is shocked to find out that his former fiancée has been murdered. The killer got away but left behind blood evidence--it’s a rare blood type that matches Ben’s own. Suddenly he’s the prime suspect, but Ben has another idea: maybe his twin brother, a drug addict who disappeared two years ago, isn’t dead after all. Ben goes under the radar, taking a false name and staying one step ahead of the police while he tries to find a man everyone believes is dead.

The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two women on the trail of an ancient mystery.

Revolution No. 9 by Neil McMahon
Abducted by the followers of a paramilitary sociopath responsible for a series of bizarre, high-profile murders, Dr. Carroll Monks is ensconced within a backwoods community and forced to care for his captor's dangerously ill son.

The First Patient by Michael Palmer
Reunited with his former Annapolis roommate, Andrew Stoddard--now president of the United States--when he is asked to become his personal physician, Gabe Singleton discovers that Andrew is going insane and that the condition may not be the result of natural causes.

Flawless by Joshua Spanogle
Leaving Atlanta to build a new life in San Francisco, Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is confronted by a vicious murder that takes him from the high-tech labs of the cosmetic industry into a dangerous, high-stakes black market.

Dead Head by Allen R. Wyler
Kidnapped by terrorists, brain surgeon Russell Lawton is given an ultimatum: help them by adapting an innovative computer that can manipulate a robot using brain activity, or his only daughter will be buried alive.