Medical & Forensic

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! This thrilling full-cast recording features Reese Witherspoon as Maggie and Chris Pine as Marc, supported by Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey. AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable...

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....

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....

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med.

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....

New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two...

Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape....

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton...

The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career...

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy'—a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice....

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

This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman...

The death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers. Together with his policeman friend and a police dog, he sets out on a quest for justice for his lost patient, but he discovers more questions than answers as he delves into the criminal world.

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......

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta....

Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino....

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! “Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers...

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead....

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her...

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

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....

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky—and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police investigation...

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

Officer Eden Mercer never backs down. With her loyal K-9 partner Shadow by her side, she patrols the fog-shrouded streets of Nightfall, Oregon—where danger hides in the most unexpected places. When a young woman turns up dead at the base of a hiking trail, what looks like a tragic accident quickly unravels into something far more sinister. The victim had no history of drug use—so why was her blood full of methadone?

Kriminal- und Forensikpsychologin Dr. Autumn Trent hat ihren Koffer noch nicht ausgepackt, da soll sie schon das FBI bei einem neuen Fall unterstützen. Diesmal reist sie mit ihrem Team nach Norden, wo ein Spinnennetz aus Täuschung und Mord gewoben wird. An der Ostküste werden wohlhabende Witwer zur leichten Beute einer Gruppe von Schwarzen Witwen, die sich an ihren saftigen Bankkonten laben. Doch in Passavant Hills, Pennsylvania, haben sie es nicht nur auf Geld abgesehen. Hier stehen auch Demütigung, Rache und Menschenblut auf ihrer Speisekarte.

Creía que nuestro matrimonio era perfecto. Mientras nuestros hijos duermen tranquilos en la habitación de al lado, leo los mensajes que Rob, mi marido, ha intercambiado con otra mujer. Sus promesas de escaparse juntos me llenan los ojos de lágrimas. Piensan que pueden deshacerse de mí así como así. Que pueden destrozar la vida que hemos construido juntos. Rob no sabe que yo he descubierto sus secretos y que ahora sé lo necesario para destruirlo. Puedo seguir interpretando a la esposa perfecta un poco más. Haré lo que sea para proteger mi vida y a mis hijos.

Brilliant diagnostician and renowned physician Dr. Sanjay Patel once dreamed of being a doctor at a free clinic, serving those in need. Now he treats billionaires by private jet and gets paid in Gucci totes packed with cash. But when his estranged mentor, Dr. Tom Carpenter, scribbles “Page Dr. Sanjay” on a blank prescription moments before collapsing from a fatal stroke, Sanjay is pulled back to the hospital that nearly ended his medical career, Boston’s Mount Beacon Hospital.

Una doctora. Una paciente. Una terrible mentira. Años después descubrí que no podía tener hijos y ahora trabajo en una clínica de fertilidad, ayudando a otras parejas a conseguir lo que yo nunca podré tener. Es así como él vuelve a mi vida: acude con su mujer como pacientes a la clínica en la que trabajo, desesperados por ser padres. ¿Los ayudo a concebir, a pesar del riesgo que supondría? Tengo que tomar una decisión que podría destruirnos… o ayudarnos a todos. Mi ex cree que conoce mis secretos. Pero no sabe hasta dónde estoy dispuesta a llegar para conseguir lo que siempre he querido.

El narcótico perfecto Una pastilla negra mortal cruza fronteras a toda velocidad y va directo al corazón de personas sanas. En las relucientes naves de producción de Calero Pharmaceuticals en Monterrey, México, un analgésico revolucionario sale de la línea de fabricación: negro brillante, con una llama grabada, con el nombre en clave Fire. Comercializado como Trilief ER, ha sido diseñado para combatir el dolor crónico con una fórmula de tres componentes que promete menos efectos secundarios que los opioides tradicionales. Inversionistas de Panamá, las Islas Caimán y Europa han ...

Maggie Chen spent twenty-three years as a federal prosecutor putting criminals behind bars. Now, at 72, she's about to become one. When Cascade Capital Partners—a ruthless private equity firm—acquires her retirement community, Maggie uncovers the truth hidden in the fine print: Cascade doesn't renovate facilities. They destroy them. Strip assets. Gut staff. Displace residents. It's a pattern they've executed across 27 nursing homes, and Sunhaven Estates is next. But Maggie isn't going down without a fight. She recruits five fellow residents, each with a particular set of skills: Frank ...

Dr. Lindsey Hart has spent twenty years behind the locked doors of a high-security psychiatric hospital, a place where the line between sanity and madness is thinner than the ward walls.

When the storm hit, the system failed. But some people are born to show up anyway. Former combat medic Sam Jenkins thought he’d buried his past, along with the family he couldn’t save. But when Hurricane Helene tears through the mountains of North Carolina, he finds himself standing guard at a powerless rural clinic, haunted by ghosts and running on duty alone. Then Jen Hayes, a no-nonsense midwife with grit and grace, bursts through the door carrying a laboring mother and a storm-shattered mission. Together, in the flicker of failing lights and howling wind, they deliver more than a ...

For warehouse supervisor Mark Jenkins, scoring a reservation at The Gilded Fork was supposed to be the ultimate anniversary gift. It Is the city’s most exclusive dining experience—a place of velvet banquettes, crystal chandeliers, and a waitlist a year long. But beneath the culinary mystery lies a secret far darker than a ruined meal.

Fin février 2020, lors de fouilles dans le gouffre de Legarrea en Navarre, Nash Elizondo, psychologue médico-légale, et son équipe de chercheurs découvrent à cinquante mètres de profondeur une dépouille de brebis, une guirlande de minuscules roses desséchées et le corps d’une jeune fille : Andrea Dancur, portée disparue depuis trois ans. Parmi ses proches, chacun a quelque chose à cacher, et la silhouette menaçante du grand-père fait obstacle aux confidences.

È la notte di Natale a Central Park e Temple Gault, l'inafferrabile serial killer, guarda la sua ultima vittima mentre si lava il sangue dalle mani con la neve appena caduta. Kay sta eseguendo un'autopsia quando riceve la notizia che il killer è tornato in azione. E l'incubo ricomincia. Mentre Scarpetta inizia a indagare, Gault uccide ancora. E colpisce molto vicino a Kay. È chiaro che il suo vero obiettivo è proprio lei.

Christian Hale went to the clinic for a routine dental procedure. He woke up with a shadow living behind his teeth. At first it is just a slight delay in his reflection. A second breath originating from deep within his own lungs. But the symptoms are escalating. The parasite is growing, learning, and mimicking his voice with absolute perfection. Worse still, the clinic has no record of his visit, internet forums discussing similar symptoms are being systematically scrubbed, and the files tracking his physical takeover prove they have been watching him the entire time. Trapped inside a ...

FINALIST in the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition "Addiction, recovery, rinse, & repeat is a winning formula that Clarke Wainikka executed masterfully in this dynamic psychological thriller!" Annette is an almost-psychologist working at Medicine River Rehab Centre. The centre is isolated, cold, and the site of three patient suicides in the last three years. It's owned by Brandy Holt; Annette's boss and the whole reason why she came to the rural north of Hacksaw, Alberta. While hiding her Xanax addiction from everyone around her, Annette is thrust into the middle of the unraveling ...

She had a name. The hospital called her Jane Doe 2026-001. When nineteen-year-old Kiki Toussaint's mother disappears on New Year's Eve, the trail ends at Rapp Memorial Medical Center. Her mother is dead—processed as unidentified despite having ID in her purse, despite Kiki calling every hospital in New Orleans, despite a family desperately searching. The hospital's explanation: "Unable to locate next of kin." But Kiki knows the truth. Her mother didn't fall through the cracks. Someone made her disappear. Investigative journalist Samantha Paul has seen this before. Black women vanishing ...

Kleine Tierkadaver – eine Ratte, ein Kaninchen, ein Eichhörnchen – tauchen in Charlotte, North Carolina, auf, verstümmelt und auf bizarre Weise inszeniert. Der forensischen Anthropologin Tempe Brennan ist Tierquälerei zutiefst verhasst. Ihre Beunruhigung wächst, als die Entdeckungen immer makabrer werden. Mit Hochdruck versucht sie dem Täter auf die Spur zu kommen. Denn es scheint nur eine Frage der Zeit zu sein, bis ein Mensch zum Opfer wird …

Dr. William Stonehurst has found not just a treatment, but an actual cure for severe PTSD by developing a way to remove the memory of the trauma that caused the PTSD. He then discovers that it is possible to place these removed memories in another person, and it becomes an option for sentencing for repeat violent offenders. Implanting memories of people who suffered the type of violence that the convict perpetrated is thought to reduce recidivism, make them feel real empathy for their victims, and increase the chances of rehabilitation.

In a city where appearances sustain power, what shortens a life is not always what ends it. London, 1668. The theaters have reopened. The King laughs. The city applauds. And two men are dead. When a celebrated actor collapses mid-performance at the Theatre Royal, the death is dismissed as mischance—until another follows with disturbing similarity. Summoned quietly to examine the pattern, physician Étienne Moreau finds something far more dangerous than poison alone: repetition. The source lies not in a single vial, but in a culture of performance. Apothecary Margaret Hale confirms what ...

Feminist dystopian thrillers have been hitting eerily close to reality lately, and The Last Midwife brings that discomfort home. ‘I’m going to snuff out the old witches–every last one of them!’ Childbirth in England is a state-controlled procedure. Midwives have been outlawed for decades. Only a handful remain, risking everything to help mothers give birth in secret, but now their very existence is under threat.

Vietnam, 1969. The same prisoner. The same wounds. Again and again. Flight medic Robert Kendrick has treated thousands of casualties in the air over III Corps. He knows how to observe, catalogue, and move on. A chemistry student turned combat medic, he sees the world in patterns — molecular structures, scar tissue, the geometry of wounds. So when he treats a Vietnamese prisoner with a distinctive tiger tattoo on a Tuesday, then treats the same man with a fresh wound the following month, then again three weeks after that, he doesn't panic. He documents. What Kendrick uncovers isn't a ...

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flu pandemic, the United States is a desolate wasteland. Overwhelmed quarantine centers and FEMA labor camps fail under the strain of asymptomatic carriers and a virulent mutating virus. Amidst this chaos, Teddy Sanders and Ein Becker flee captivity, venturing through the ruins in search of sanctuary.

When medical intern Harry Lindmark’s patient gruesomely dies, he fears an Angel of Death is loose in his hospital. Soon, however, Harry falls under suspicion when unexpected deaths mount. His desperate investigation to clear his name reveals a nightmarish conspiracy—hungering souls of those long-dead are killing his patients, led by the vengeful soul of former physician Sylvester Morrow, as heartless in death as he was in life.

A pharmaceutical giant has teamed up with the Pitt County, North Carolina public health department to test a drug that could help millions improve their health. But someone is sabotaging the research. Healthcare researcher Jeannie Johal is sent to Greenville, NC on special assignment to find out why. Little does she know that even before she begins, plans are underway to persuade her to leave the project.

Scott Mitchell is alone, at home still grappling with the sudden tragic death of his wife. The doorbell rings, signaling what he assumes will be another sympathetic neighbor delivering another casserole he won’t eat. But it is not a neighbor. Instead, on his doorstep is a ghost from his past. Seventeen years earlier he and Dana Elliott, both then Air Force Majors stationed at the Pentagon, had an intense romance cut short when Dana was nearly killed by a Russian assassin (see THE CORONA EFFECT). To shield her from renewed attacks, Dana was whisked overnight into witness protection, given ...