Medical Crime Thrillers

When a series of unexplained deaths begins to surface, Dallas homicide detectives Myrna Sontiago and Zeke LaPorte are confronted with a disturbing reality: the victims show no signs of trauma, no toxins, and no obvious cause of death. Autopsies raise more questions than answers, and the absence of evidence feels intentional. As the investigation deepens, the detectives uncover a chilling connection between medicine, trust, and silence. Each death points toward a method so precise —and so easily overlooked—that the truth risks being dismissed entirely.

On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith's new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother's safe open, her gun missing and a...

Brought to you by Penguin. An unforgettable collaboration between an award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and the and #1 international bestselling writer Harlan Coben. Maggie McCabe is on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned army combat surgeon, she has always lived life on the edge. But...

Brought to you by Penguin. Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had . . . catching killers. From the creator of the no. 1 bestselling Women's Murder Club thrillers. ______________________________________ Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home to LA to bury her estranged...

_________________________________________ The fifth Will Trent novel, from the #1 bestselling author. Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there's a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith...

Not all doctors are heroes . . . Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his office door and prepares for a relaxing evening. But what follows is a living nightmare when later he is discovered in a locked-in coma, the victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is left to Doctor Kash Devan...

When Hurricane Carina devastates Calusa Key, seasoned nurse Camille believes surviving thestorm will be her greatest challenge. She is wrong. Her home is destroyed, a brutal murder rocksthe island, and a wave of overdose deaths exposes a hidden drug operation.Just because you're in the storm...

Brought to you by Penguin. A missing patient is a hospital ward's worst nightmare - until even more people disappear . . . Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is used to guiding expectant mothers through pregnancy. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch, her focus abruptly...

Samantha Owens applied for the vacant position offered by the State of Texas prison officials for a Registered Nurse with obstetrical experience to work in their OB clinic. After her somewhat frightening orientation what she actually ended up working was the night shift position making her responsible for over 900 inmates in the women's correctional facility.

'A stunning read full of emotion, twists and action' DAVID BALDACCI 'Dark, compelling and unputdownable' STEVE CAVANAGH 'This high-stakes revenge thriller is one of the hottest reads right now' INDEPENDENT, Best Summer Reads 2026 She's the only suspect in the worst crime imaginable. Three years...

When investigative journalist Claire Dervin stumbles upon a burglary report involving a retired surgeon, she senses something deeper. What she finds is a hidden network of silence—diaries encoded with trauma, institutions that looked away, and survivors buried beneath decades of disbelief. As Claire unearths stories long dismissed, the walls of complicity begin to crack. But truth comes with a price.

Der erste Thriller von Michael Tsokos basiert - wie könnte es anders sein - auf einem authentischen Fall und echten Ermittlungen. Sein Protagonist, Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel vom BKA, bekommt es mit einem europaweit agierenden Serienmörder zu tun: Im Umkreis europäischer Flughäfen geschehen Schlag auf Schlag Morde an Frauen, die der Täter mit einer mysteriösen Parole beschriftet. Durch eine spezielle DNA-Analyse gerät der Ex-Soldat Lars Moewig in Verdacht - ausgerechnet ein alter Kumpel des Rechtsmediziners aus gemeinsamen Bundeswehrzeiten, dem Abel so brutale Verbrechen niemals zugetraut hätte.

He sees inside the minds of killers. Can he face a shocking truth before a vengeful psychopath mutilates more victims? As a forensic psychiatrist and famous TV personality, Dr. Colin Powers seems unstoppable. Despite his show’s focus on true crime, he yearns for the challenge of solving real cases. But his wish sours when he receives an anonymous letter containing images of horrifically mutilated victims...

The Perfect Narcotic... Dr. Roger Jackson has seen thousands of arrhythmias in thirty years of cardiology at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has never seen one he couldn't explain -- until a young woman arrives in his CCU with a heart rate that won't break and a toxicology screen that comes back clean. When a second case follows two days later, Roger starts pulling a thread that leads south across the Gulf of Mexico to a cartel that has done something new: gone legitimate.

BKA-Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel arbeitet unter Hochdruck an einem großen Fall: Ein winziger Einstich in der Kniekehle eines Toten verrät ihm, dass einer der gefährlichsten Killer der letzten Zeit weiterhin sein Unwesen treibt. Doch bevor Abel ihn stoppen kann, wird er in heikler Mission in den osteuropäischen Pseudostaat Transnistrien geschickt. Dort soll er zwei Mordopfer identifizieren, die in Kalkfässern gelagert wurden und fast vollständig zersetzt sind.

A strange case takes Dr. Jessica Coran and her team on a 70-foot dive off the Coast of Nantucket Island to do a crime scene investigation inside a sunken yacht, the Promises Fulfilled. Within the eerie confines of the underwater sepulcher, Jessica and the others discover more questions than answers. Even with the help of the famous undersea explorer, Dr. Bob Ballard of Titanic fame, on raising the yacht, more questions mount as there is no evidence whatsoever as to precisely how the ship went down, and later, on autopsy, Jessica discovers no one on board had saltwater in their lungs.

A Jack Reacher-meets-House medical thriller for fans of Paul McEwan and David Baldacci. When the overworked, grumpy-but-brilliant Dr. Macrae fails to save a thirty-year-old patient who dies inexplicably in his ER, he’s determined to understand what could have caused a seemingly healthy young...

The dazzling sequel to The Inside Ring finds Joe DeMarco, the Speaker of the House’s all-purpose “fixer,” in a battle of wits against a lethal female spy. On a tip from his nephew, the Secretary of the Navy asks House Speaker John Mahoney to send his troubleshooter, Joe DeMarco, to check...

With one nerve-shattering New York Times bestseller after another, Michael Palmer has demonstrated his extraordinary ability to create medical thrillers that are at once relentlessly suspenseful and chillingly realistic. And now the former ER physician returns with the stunning and explosive...

The dazzling sequel to The Inside Ring finds Joe DeMarco, the Speaker of the House’s all-purpose “fixer,” in a battle of wits against a lethal female spy. On a tip from his nephew, the Secretary of the Navy asks House Speaker John Mahoney to send his troubleshooter, Joe DeMarco, to check...