When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. “Old people die, that’s what they do”…
Medical Thrillers
Dr. Erica Rosen is perplexed when she sees a young Chinese girl with blue eyes in her San Francisco pediatrics clinic. The girl’s mother, Ting, is secretive, and Erica suspects she has…
By Terry DiDomenico Think about the rush an emergency room doctor must feel as the ambulance pulls up, the doors fly open, and there comes the patient. If you want to feel…
In the distance Leah heard sirens. She ignored them. Right now, her daughter needed her and Emily was just out of reach, curled up under the bed, her eyes closed, desperately shaking.…
Doctors go to medical school to save lives…right? When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to…
Mysterious photos of the world’s most wanted killer, Dr. William Blaine. Coded letters luring Persephone Smith to Spain. A little girl who is not what she seems. Criminal psychologist Persephone “Seph” Smith…
The plague has hit Italy. Can Dr. Alana Vaughn find the source in time to save the world? No person is left unscathed, no family untouched. Death grows insatiable. Alana Vaughn, an…
By Terry DiDomenico At first Dr. Caden Taggart fears for his freedom. Then for his ability to cope. Eventually, he fears for his life. It begins when he spots two men sitting…
SOME SECRETS CAN BE DEADLY… Stepping into the darkened hospital clinic, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd hears the faint click of a revolver before spotting the barrel pressed against the young marine’s temple. Unable…
By Austin S. Camacho Looking for a new medical thriller with a unique paranormal twist? It’s time for you to check out THE BONE CURSE by Carrie Rubin. Western medicine clashes with…
By George Ebey Author Richard L. Mabry, MD, brings his considerable expertise to his latest medical thriller, SURGEON’S CHOICE. Dr. Ben Merrick and his fiancée, Rachel Gardner, can’t get her divorced parents…
Cardiologist Dr. Kirk Martin continually crosses swords with Dr. Cliff Hamilton, so he is surprised when Hamilton asks him to care for him after a heart attack. When he is ready for…
By Charlie Cochrane Lisa Towles’ latest book begins with an intriguing premise: what would Big Pharma do if a scientist developed a cigarette to cure lung cancer? In CHOKE, Towles offers one…
Dr. Persephone Smith is a psychologist with a genetic gift. Her enhanced empathy allows her to feel on a primal level the emotions of others, which helps with her job as a…
By Charlie Cochrane If anyone tells you that authors are all alike, you have my permission to tear them off a strip. The members of ITW are a marvelously diverse group and…
Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney’s grief turns to…
RN Gina Mazzio and her long-time love, Harry Lucke, are deep into marriage plans when a particularly nasty murder intervenes—the bookkeeper in their friend Lolly’s office has been raped and carved up.…
Embracing the Legacy—and Setting a New Mark By Austin S. Camacho I’ve heard that varied experiences, an artistic temperament, or even genetics could predict writing talent. By any of those measures it’s…
By J.L. Delozier I read, with added delight, the thriller sub-genres that put an extra that could be me real-life layer of relatability in the story. Think about the espionage thriller that,…
Someone is after Dr. Sarah Gordon. They’ve stalked her, set a fire at her home—and she has no idea what will come next. Her late husband’s best friend and a recovering alcoholic…
By John A. Connell The horror of a pathogen is that it’s an invisible killer, striking at random, dispassionately, ruthlessly. In Jodi McIsaac’s latest novel, A CURE FOR MADNESS, she takes that…
Amy Shojai’s successful September Day series continues the thrills with the release of SHOW AND TELL, again featuring her popular service dog viewpoint character Shadow, and animal behaviorist, September Day. The author…
By Wendy Tyson FATAL COMPLICATIONS is John Benedict’s third crime novel. Kirkus Reviews called Benedict’s debut novel Adrenaline, “a mystery story rife with suspense,” and its popular sequel, The Edge of Death,…
By Donna Galanti Kira Peikoff’s novels, such as No Time to Die and Living Proof, deliver a blend of cutting-edge science, deeply human characters, and explosive high-stakes controversies—and she doesn’t disappoint with her newest bio-medical thriller, DIE AGAIN TOMORROW . In DIE…