A prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist decides to fund a controversial new company, to enhance the oldest and most frequently performed surgical procedure in the World – Abortion.
Unknowingly, self-serving Scientists are manipulated to develop new extraction techniques on innocent, fertile or pregnant young women who have either been abducted or obtained through human trafficking. When patients are brutalized and some go missing, the new promising venture turns into a hellish nightmare.
In a moral struggle between right and wrong, humility and greed, and eventually life and death, be prepared to be dragged through a dark and brutal new world where human life becomes the equity of evil.
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If you like medical thrillers with complex plots and intriguing characters, then I hope Santa left THE IMMORTALISTS by Kyle Mills in your stocking because it’s just what you were looking for.
The novel follows Dr. Richard Draman in his desperate search for a cure for progeria, a disease that causes children to age at a wildly accelerated rate. Draman’s daughter is dying from this rare genetic condition. He receives a copy of some classified work being done on this disease just before the researcher’s mysterious suicide. While the secret research offers hope for his daughter, it also soon has Draman on the run, pursued by a powerful group that knows the papers he has could change everything we know about biology.
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By Ethan Cross
Neal Baer and Jonathan Greene have been the creative driving forces behind some of television’s most popular dramas including LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT and ER. But they have now delved into the world of novels with a debut that has been described as “a psychological thriller of the first order” and a “masterwork of psychological suspense.”
Their novel, KILL SWITCH, is the first of a series featuring Dr. Claire Waters, a brilliant, young forensic psychiatrist with unnervingly personal insight into the criminal mind. Haunted by a disturbing childhood incident in which her best friend was abducted and never found, Claire has always been drawn to those rare “untreatable” patients who seem to have no conscience or fear. She has a natural ability to put people at ease, to draw out their darkest secrets, and she believes that by understanding what motivates violent criminals, she can help prevent them from committing further crimes. But one shocking case could make or break her career — and it’s waiting for her in the psychiatric wing of New York City’s Rikers Island Prison.
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By Don Helin
In RESUSCITATION, D.M Annechino, a former book editor who spent two years researching serial killers before penning his gripping and memorable debut novel, THEY NEVER DIE QUIETLY, wanted to explore the dark side of a successful cardiothoracic surgeon’s desire to make medical history . . .even at the expense of those he should most want to help.
Resuscitation explores what would drive a doctor to violate his Hippocratic oath to abstain from doing harm, and find perverse pleasure in doing so. It is a chilling question, one that author Daniel Annechino explores in heart stopping detail in RESUSCITATION, a fast-paced thriller, that pits a cunning killer against a single-minded cop. When Sami goes after a doctor who is using his victims as guinea pigs for horrific surgical experiments, she never dreams she may become one of the hunted ones.
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By Diane Holmes
No thriller is more personal than the medical thriller. We all get ill or injured. Any one of us could die… today. And sometimes, what we trust the most, medicine, is the biggest danger of all.
In Richard L. Mabry’s latest novel, LETHAL REMEDY, Dr. Sara Miles’ patient is on the threshold of death from an overwhelming, highly resistant infection with Staphylococcus luciferus, simply known to doctors as “the killer.” Only an experimental antibiotic, developed and administered by Sara’s ex-husband, Dr. Jack Ingersoll, can save the girl’s life.
Dr. John Ramsey is seeking to put his life together after the death of his wife by joining the medical school faculty. But his decision could prove to be costly, even fatal.
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In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel.
Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now she’s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil. Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning — and a swift, avenging blade.
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When forensic and criminal behavior expert Dub Walker agrees to help his old friend locate her nineteen-year-old daughter, he never imagines the nightmare that will follow. Authorities discover the bodies of the daughter and of another young woman, in a shallow grave, in a densely wooded area, excavated by feral pigs. Far more disturbing: both young ladies were buried after undergoing a series of highly technical surgical procedures. Soon, police find nearly two dozen more bodies in various rural locations around the city, and even in the massive midtown public cemetery. Now Dub must unravel the questions. Who would do this? Who had the skill and the equipment to perform these procedures without attracting attention? And more importantly, why?
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By Don Helin
In his latest novel, Tunnel Vision, International best-selling author Gray Braver unleashes a plot so fiendish that New York Times best-selling author David Morrell says, “Fascinating and scary, Gary Braver’s Tunnel Vision, goes one step beyond, between life and death. It grabbed me and educated me.”
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Dr. Richard L. Mabry is a retired physician who now writes both fiction and nonfiction. His first novel, Code Blue, was published by Abingdon Press in April, 2010, followed by Medical Error in September, and Diagnosis Death in April 2011.
Publishers Weekly reviewers said this about Diagnosis Death, the third novel in Richard Mabry’s Prescription for Trouble series: “…for fans of the gory, gritty details of patient trauma and hospital gossip, this book certainly will be an enjoyable page-turner.”
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by Derek Gunn
A virus engineered for genocide has been released in Colorado Springs, leading to mass and seemingly unexplained violence. Some of the survivors of the infection begin to evolve into something that is both less than and more than human. The race is on to prevent world-wide release of the virus.
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A. Scott Pearson’s novel Public Anatomy, a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick, is due out in hardcover March 7 in parallel with the paperback release of Pearson’s first medical thriller Rupture.
Here’s the jacket copy:
While recovering from a career-threatening injury, surgeon Eli Branch is pulled into the turbulent world of Dr. Liza French, a colleague he hasn’t seen in ten years. Liza uses their past to lure Eli into a highly-publicized debacle in a Memphis hospital that has put her own career in jeopardy. But when the murder of medical personnel at Gates Memorial appears related to Liza’s surgical complication, Eli finds that more lives are at imminent risk.
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I spent ten action packed, suspense filled, claustrophobic days in about five hundred pages with Michael Palmer’s newest novel, A HEARTBEAT AWAY. In his 16th book he stirs up a toxic brew of a believable tale of intrigue about domestic terrorism, biological warfare and lust for power-with the seeming intrinsic understanding that our enemies don’t always come from faraway places or speak with accents-sometimes our most dangerous enemy looks like us, stands next to us, or is us.
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By Karen Harper
Recently I sat down with CJ Lyons to talk about her newest medical thriller, Critical Condition.
Without giving away the plot’s twists and turns, please let your readers know what CRITICAL CONDITION is about.
CRITICAL CONDITION is the finale of the Angels of Mercy series, so it wraps up all four characters’ storylines in a whiz-bang of a thriller ride…think Die Hard in a hospital. The action takes place in real time, everything happens in less than five hours, which made it so tightly plotted (with four main characters and stories to tell) that I literally wrote the book backwards, starting with who was left alive at the end.
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Kathy Reichs can do seemingly anything. She turned her career as a forensic anthropologist into a series of New York Times bestselling books, whose heroine, Tempe Brennan, got her own television show, Fox’s monster hit “Bones.” Kathy has been a producer for all six of this wildly successful series’ seasons (the show recently aired its landmark 100th episode).
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In Richard L. Mabry’s newest thriller, Medical Error, Dr. Anna McIntyre’s life was going along just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient died because of an identity mix-up, her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions, and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn’t get worse, but that was before she opened the envelope.
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