The best medical thriller eBooks for kindle, nook, iBooks and more, including medical police procedurals, stories about biological experiments gone wrong, rogue physicians and more.
The Bottom Line: A powerhouse medical thriller with all the right ingredients: a secret order, illicit wonder drugs and a relentless hero that never gives up. Highly recommended. Nazi Germany, 1945. As a ragged group of loyal soldiers await the inevitable Allied invasion, hope for the Third Reich is all but lost until SS Oberstgruppenführer […]
The Bottom Line: A hugely satisfying blend of ripped-from-the-headlines science fiction and suspense, The Happy Chip is one of the year’s best medical thrillers. Highly recommended. Human beings have used mood-altering drugs – ranging from roots to prescription drugs – for thousands of years. Author Dennis Meredith’s The Happy Chip takes the idea a step […]
The Bottom Line: Even when Slaughter’s not at her best, she still brings heated emotions to the contemporary police procedural like few of her peers. Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex […]
The Bottom Line: A first-rate medical thriller that establishes new author James Marshall Smith as one of the year’s best newcomers. Among local law enforcement, scientist Damon Keane is something of a celebrity in Atlanta. So when Atlanta police’s Special Operations Section find themselves faced with three ghoulish deaths and no solid leads, the mayor […]
The Bottom Line: A powerful medical thriller about the ethics of organ transplants, the desperate world of donors and the people who control the system. At Michigan’s Mount Carmel University, a world-famous organ transplant team prepares a patient for a liver transplant. Suddenly, a woman suddenly appears in the operating room with a gun. She […]
The Bottom Line: This addictive first entry in the Julie Madigan series tells the story of a woman traumatized by a past her sadistic tormentor won’t let her escape. Why would an officer of the New Mexico State Police leave the force? That’s the dark secret kept by Julie Madigan, now a medical examiner investigator […]
The Bottom Line: A page-turning medical thriller about the potential consequences of mass infertility that will you have you up long past your bedtime. In his role as a liaison psychiatrist to the Chicago Public School System, Dr. Rafael Johnson spends his time helping pregnant teens. But mostly, his attempts to help offer young girls […]
The Bottom Line: A medical thriller that is timely, gripping and actually important. Highly recommended. For terminal cancer patients wishing for an escape from reality, a Las Vegas hospice care facility licensed to administer LSD seems like a godsend. But when a chemistry lab explosion kills a scientist at a local university responsible for manufacturing the […]
What if you woke up one day looking like a completely different person? Could you live with the consequences? Or would the trauma turn you into a psychopathic killer? After Dr. Thea Donovan performs reconstructive facial surgery on severely injured fireman Malcolm Dean, she is ecstatic with the results. The Reflesh procedure she pioneered with […]
The Bottom Line: A truly terrifying medical thriller that expertly plays upon your worst nightmare about getting old. A must for Dexter fans. For many, the prospect of spending their golden years in a nursing home is nothing short of horrifying. One reason is because the power differential between the elderly and the nurses that […]
