Medical

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....

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....

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.

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South...

When Dr. Hannah Sparks receives an emergency call in the middle of the night, she’s prepared to save a life—but not to confront her husband’s mistress on the operating table.

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital.

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County...

When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault...

The second heart stopping Grant County novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, featuring Sara Linton of the acclaimed Will Trent Series. “Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don’t dare to go. Kisscut will cement...

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....

From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to...

Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill...

In From Potter’s Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately...

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 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...

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive...

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...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds...

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and...

The New York Times Bestseller and 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...

Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer’s mind...

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could...

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

Eric can’t stop thinking about just how close he came to losing her—and he’s done playing this game, done watching Joe risk her life and he’s going to do whatever it takes to get the stubborn woman off the truck even if that means losing her forever. There was only one problem with that plan. Joe loved what she did and had absolutely no plans to quit. She doesn’t care what Eric says, she’s not going anywhere and the sooner he realized that, the sooner she could go back to pretending that everything was fine.

He's served his time. As he strives to restore his life and career, will a high-level political conspiracy execute his death sentence? Dr. Zack Winston, now an ex-con desperate for redemption, reclaims his emergency medicine career and renews his most important relationship. A web of chilling...

Nell'indagine che sta conducendo per scoprire cos'è davvero successo al suo vice, Jack Fielding, ucciso sei mesi prima, Kay Scarpetta ha deciso di incontrare una detenuta della Georgia Prison for Women, una donna condannata per reati sessuali e madre di una diabolica assassina. Sono ragioni personali, oltre che professionali, a metterla nella necessità di fare luce su macabri omicidi: il massacro di un'intera famiglia avvenuto anni prima a Savannah e una serie di morti inspiegabili che si stanno susseguendo a un ritmo inquietante.

Olivia thought she knew darkness. Her childhood. The years in care homes. The fear of abandonment. The fear of loss and failure. Now, as the door clangs shuts behind her – with her captor’s promise ringing in her ears that she’s ‘his’ forever – she realises that nowhere before has been as dark as her attic cell. But, under the eaves, as she shivers in the cold and recalls how she was taken, Olivia starts to make a plan. Because only she knows that the girl in the attic isn’t as innocent as her captor thinks… and that the deepest darkness might just be within her.

Las fuerzas militares de Irán han sido destrozadas. Su liderazgo, diezmado. Pero perder en el campo de batalla no significa perder la guerra. Para salvar al régimen, Teherán solo necesita una jugada capaz de destruir la voluntad política de Estados Unidos de terminar el trabajo. Roger Jackson e Isabel se suponen de vacaciones. Después de todo lo que sobrevivieron en México, una semana a bordo de un crucero por el Caribe debía ser un respiro. Una oportunidad para dormir, respirar y desaparecer por unos días en mar abierto. En cambio, cuando los pasajeros empiezan a enfermar y ...

Dr. Autumn Trent, forensische Psychologin und Kriminalpsychologin, will beim Wechsel in die Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse des FBI weiter Erfahrung sammeln und routinierter werden. In Lavender Lake, Florida, verschwinden hochschwangere Frauen. Den einzigen Hinweis auf ihr Schicksal stellt eine einzelne Hand dar … gefunden in einem Sumpfgebiet, in dem es von Alligatoren wimmelt. Ein kaltblütiger Unmensch befindet sich auf einer heiligen Mission, um sein Licht in die dunkle Welt zu bringen. Wie schnappt man einen Kriminellen, der dafür sorgt, dass alle Beweismittel aufgefressen werden?

In the ruthless labs of Helix Innovations, geneticist Dr. Emily Harper uncovers a shocking secret: a hidden sequence in every living organism that determines the precise moment of death. Her discovery triggers a moral dilemma—whether to allow Helix to exploit it for profit, stay silent, or give it up to an organization craving control.

A profound and engrossing medical drama by bestsellers Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright is back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital. This time, instead of dealing with patients' broken bodies, she's tackling their mental health issues, with...

Tra racconti di pirati, corse automobilistiche, morti e rapimenti, un thriller ricco di humour nero. Quando il governatore della Virginia, Bedford Crimm, vara una severissima legge sui limiti di velocità, a Tangier Island è il caos. Gli abitanti dell'isoletta insorgono chiedendo l'indipendenza dalla Virginia, e non sono questi gli unici guai per Crimm, alle prese con un'impressionante serie di delitti che insanguinano le strade.

What if your dream job came with one condition—say yes… no matter what? Welcome to Shergar Corp. Where ambition is rewarded. Loyalty is tested. And saying no isn't an option. 📚 BOOK 1: THE SECRETARY Gillian Martin lands the kind of job people would kill for. Then the notes start appearing. Will you have dinner with me? Check yes or no. It feels harmless. Exciting, even. Until the questions change. Do you have what it takes to be in my world? Because at Shergar Corp, every "yes" comes with a cost. And some tasks? You don't come back from. 📚 BOOK 2: THE SECRETARY: VOLUME II Lena ...

Politics, science, and murder. Dr. Abina Owusu, a faculty member researching racial health care inequities at the Maine Translational Research, is shocked when she’s arrested by ICE agents and told that she’s been deemed a threat to national security. While she’s spoken out against the administration’s cuts to funding for medical research, climate change, and health care, she insists that she’s done nothing wrong. Nonetheless, she’s held in a county jail awaiting transfer to a deportation facility. It therefore comes as a relief when two men posing as ICE agents appear at the ...

At 3:14 AM, the world ends quietly. No explosion. No warning. Every phone, every generator, every pacemaker — dead. In a single second, civilization collapses from the Information Age to the Iron Age. In the chaos of Neo-Los Angeles, ER surgeon Jennifer Grant is performing emergency surgery when the lights go out and never come back. Her Army medic training kicks in before the panic does. Keep the patients alive. Protect the hospital. Figure out what happened later. But survival isn't just a medical problem. Matthew Walker — former tech executive, self-appointed ruler of the ruins — ...

Cyrus Darian used to be a doctor. Now he lives out of a backpack in the Oregon backcountry, avoiding towns, avoiding people, avoiding questions. When he saves a stranger’s life deep in the Oregon wilderness using little more than improvisation and nerve, the act pulls him into a remote off-grid commune that seems, at first, like a quiet place to disappear.

Some monsters are made in laboratories. Some are standing right beside you. FBI Agent Gabi Longoria thought she knew every danger of living in a world filled with superhumans. But nothing prepared her for the terror growing inside her own home. Her partner—and the man she loves—Ian Armory, is losing control, plagued by violent blackouts and terrifying changes he can’t explain. Each episode leaves him less himself, more something else: stronger, wilder, and increasingly unpredictable. Ian believes he could soon become a threat to everyone around him—including Gabi. Desperate for ...

Editorial Review THE PRESENCE IN THE ROOM delivers a chilling blend of medical realism and supernatural dread, building tension through documented evidence rather than spectacle. Ted Lazaris crafts a slow-burn hospital nightmare where every chart entry and monitor reading deepens the fear that something unseen may be interacting with the child. Fans of Insidious will find this story haunting, emotional, and impossible to forget — a quiet terror that lingers long after the final page. THE PRESENCE IN THE ROOM A True Documented Terror — The Medical and Witness Reports Behind the Phenomena...

In the high-stakes environment of Mercy General Hospital, a countdown is underway to a looming government shutdown, and the patients are revealing astonishing truths. Instead of complaints, they whisper coordinates, share chemical equations, and offer diagnoses with uncanny precision. As the medical staff, including Dr. Aris Thorne, cling to their charts, they face an unsettling reality: the dying hold insights that could save lives—even as their own hang in the balance.

Doctor Richard Keeton is the closest thing to a father figure I have ever known. He single-handedly guided my medical career with plans to appoint me as Chief of Surgery upon his retirement. So when he asks for a favor, who am I to say no—even if that favor means sabotaging his own daughter’s surgical career. It should have been easy. Mentor his young, entitled daughter through her residency. Put up with her spoiled demands and work her so hard she quits the field.

What would you do if you woke up with part of your memory erased, your fiancée missing, and the most dangerous secret in the world locked inside your own mind? When neurosurgeon Dr. David Thomas regains consciousness in a locked room with twenty-one fresh stitches across his head, he remembers only one thing with absolute clarity: Charlotte, his fiancée. But Charlotte is gone. Their home has been destroyed, and the last two months of David’s life have vanished without a trace. As memories return in violent flashes, one chilling truth becomes impossible to ignore: someone wanted them ...

Aviana Lehrer thinks she has finally reached the pinnacle of her career as a hospital executive in Denver when her life shatters and she is sucked back into the oppressive family drama she escaped ten years earlier. In order to ensure that her mentally deteriorating father stays out of trouble, she gives up her dream of big-city hospital administration, moves back home to the town of Berndtbridge, Michigan, and takes an entry-level position as a home care nurse under the tutelage of a far-less-experienced mentor.

In the quiet rhythm of a family kitchen and the buzzing corridors of a pediatric hospital, Dr. Andrew Turbin begins to notice something unsettling: a growing number of children presenting with neurological symptoms that defy classification. Their scans don’t match known disorders. Their genetics offer no clear answers. And yet, across backgrounds and regions, the patterns echo. What begins as a collection of names and EEGs becomes an obsession. As Andrew digs deeper, joined by a brilliant field researcher from India, Dr. Meera Rao, and a trusted colleague in pediatric genetics, Dr.