Medical

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. sexy surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved....

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past....

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit....

From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War....

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her....

One suicide. Every year. Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her....

I'm twenty-six years old, and I want to die. So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn't expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own.

Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe....

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi....

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions....

Following the post mortem of a stowaway that reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information....

Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman....

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....

Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner....

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller....

Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before......

They’re one of the country’s most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York’s hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago....

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son.

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why....

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore....

It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner....

A single phone call sets off a chain of events that will test Justin's every belief. When a mysterious woman claims kinship, Justin's instincts scream deception. But when they meet, her mesmerizing appearance shatters his doubts, unveiling a truth he never saw coming.

Lizzy Ballard possesses a dangerous power she struggles to control: the ability to inflict fatal brain injuries using only the power of her mind. Haunted by the memory of her victims, she's on the run from the authorities and from the scientist who created her power, Louise Mortensen. Lizzy has been hiding out in Arizona with her mentor, ex-con Philip Castillo. She's earning money at the poker tables of Phoenix, thanks to an unexpected ability bestowed by a drug stolen from Mortensen: temporary clairvoyance. When Lizzy and Philip decide to head east to Lizzy's hometown of Philadelphia, she's overjoyed to be reunited with her godfather, Owen McNally, and his brother Andy.

War Virus A science fiction medical thriller set in Vancouver during the Cold War era.War Virus is a riveting dystopian science fiction novel set in the bustling city of Vancouver during the tense years of the Cold War. The story unfolds in a world where a mysterious new epidemic is spreading with alarming speed, leaving the medical community racing against time to uncover its origins and find a cure. Mark Brett, a dedicated pathologist, returns from a much-needed vacation to find his lab in chaos. The headline-grabbing epidemic, initially dismissed as a mere flu, quickly reveals its ...

Revive The Dead A New Future New York Science Fiction ThrillerRevive The Dead is a gripping dystopian science fiction thriller set in the bustling metropolis of New York during the year 2033. Raymond Rickman, a former governor of New York turned private lawyer, is pulled from his mundane routine into the world of groundbreaking scientific discovery. When Dr. Benedict Wilson from Beller Research Laboratories approaches him with a proposition to represent their controversial project, Rickman's life takes an unexpected turn. The lab has perfected a technique to revive the newly dead, a process...

When the outbreak comes to a head, Laney is away from home. Chasing her dream of being the winner of a baking reality show, she is sequestered like a juror. No phone, no internet, no knowledge of what is happening. When the show evacuates all of the contestants, somehow Laney is left behind. Shut off from communication when the city loses power, Laney is clueless about what is happening and lacks the knowledge of the virus she is facing. Those infected experience a violent fever rage before the virus ultimately consumes them and takes their lives.

Our eyes met, and my world flipped. He’s off-limits and nothing like the guys I've dated before, which only makes me want him even more. We're different in so many ways. We didn't grow up with the same privileges, yet our hearts and desires are remarkably similar. His tall, muscular body, adorned with black ink, takes my breath away. When our lips touch, the world around us disappears, leaving only the warmth of his embrace. Our relationship is a whirlwind of fire and steam until we hit a wall, hard. Separation sets in, and my world turns dark. I want him and only him. How could he do ...

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?

Southern Legacyby Harper Stanwick, Sr. is a captivating mystery novel set in the Gulf States during the sweltering summer of 1888. This gripping tale weaves together elements of historical fiction, intrigue, and Southern Gothic tradition. In the heat of 1888, at a modest station where eastbound and westbound trains exchange a handful of passengers daily, two men meet whose lives will become deeply intertwined. Adley Witt Jr., a sociable and amiable gentleman, steps in to help a young woman named Kitty Palmer, setting off a chain of events that reveals the complexities of Southern life post-...

At sixteen, Holly Danvers barely survived the car accident that killed her father. While she has no memory of the crash, it took an ayahuasca treatment, a native plant-based psychedelic therapy, in the jungles of Peru for her to emotionally recover. Twenty years later, Holly is a sought-after psychiatrist determined to use her expertise with psychedelics to treat patients suffering from addictions. Ignoring the risks, she embarks upon an unproven new protocol with miraculous results. But her success in probing the traumas of her patients and the secrets they keep is short-lived.

Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and bighearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the 'worm' that is eating his brain—a metaphor her mother once used to explain John's dementia and sundown syndrome—Gracie helps him break out of his nursing home, and the two disappear together on a quest to chase the sun.

When I wake up, I know three things. My name is Emma. Someone tried to kill me. And I can't remember who. When I blink, my eyelashes brush against scratchy cloth. My fingers twitch, numb and distant. In the distance, sirens wail. I'm in the hospital. I should be safe here, but I know I'm not. The last thing I remember is running, seeing an arm raised to strike Why would anyone want to kill me?

Salford, 1983. Lorraine Quick is a single mum, a member of a band going nowhere fast and Personnel Officer at Salford's grim Memorial Hospital. A new General Manager position is being introduced, someone to steer the institution towards Margaret Thatcher's lofty vision for the NHS. Lorraine will be pivotal in selecting the successful candidate, thanks to her recent training in psychometric testing.

A small Texas town. A murdered doctor. If she inherits his practice, will she inherit his same fate? Bound by a non-compete clause, Dr. Samantha Jenkins finds herself in an unexpected role as a traveling doctor in the piney woods of east Texas. When she’s plunged into a small community harboring dark secrets and a history of unsolved mysteries, Samantha faces the daunting task of saving lives while navigating the shadows of a place marked by violence and deceit. As she steps into her predecessor's role, abruptly ended by murder, Samantha swiftly uncovers a web of deception. Mysterious lab...

ADRENALINE: Murder is the ultimate rush. When patients start dying unexpectedly in the O.R. at Mercy Hospital, anesthesiologist Doug Landry finds himself the focus of the blame. Is he really incompetent or is there something more sinister going on? As Doug struggles to clear his name and unravel the secret of the mysterious deaths, it becomes clear that someone will stop at nothing to keep him from exposing the devastating truth. Doug becomes trapped in a grisly race against time to prevent more deaths--including his own. From the boardroom to the recovery room to the thrilling climax in ...

USA Bestselling Author May McGoldrick writing as Jan Coffey TEENAGERS...OR TIME BOMBS? They were all bright, well liked and socially responsible kids — the last students on earth who would smuggle guns into high school. The nation is gripped by the shocking crimes: "good kids" who are suddenly, inexplicably lethal, shooting their classmates before fatally turning their guns on themselves. When Connecticut doctor Dr. Lexi Bradley gets the call that her son Juan has become one of those shooters, her life is turned upside down. Ten years ago, Secret Service agent Bryan Atwood became an ...