Marie Heaton's successful anesthesiology practice is derailed when a child dies under the mask. Faced with a major lawsuit, she must turn to a former lover for moral support.
Medical fiction
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Author:Cassella, Carol WileySummary: - Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially...
- Author:Kalla, DanielSummary:
Dr. Noah Haldane knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, so when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in China, he expects trouble. He discovers that Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome is far more deadly than SARS....
- Author:Cornwell, PatriciaSummary:
The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders...
- Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:
Finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book. It's 1941, and Canada is...
- Author:Rogers, AmySummary:
A science/medical thriller in the style of Michael CrichtonRabies kills. Can it also cure?Tessa Price, PhD, knows what it’s like to lose a child to a genetic disease. To spare another mother this pain, she invents a radical new gene...
- Author:Byrd, Lee MerrillSummary:
The fire called Riley to his destiny, just like the spinning-wheel called Sleeping Beauty. Now, Riley has third-degree burns on 63% of his body. At the Shriners Burns Institute, he must endure countless skin grafts and searingly painful...
- Author:Yi, MelissaSummary:
In this international medical thriller, readers follow Dr. Hope Sze on an impromptu treasure hunt in Egypt mixing ancient legends with 21st century murder.
- Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
Senator Ashley Butler fervidly opposes any legislation supporting biotechnology and strives to outlaw cloning. His adversary, Dr. Daniel Lowell, has almost perfected an innovative stem cell procedure that reverses the effects of several...
- Author:Cook, RobinSummary:
Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is...
- Author:Lyons, CJ.Summary:
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, Book #2 in the Hart and Drake medical suspense series. "There's an oath doctors take," Detective Mickey Drake said. "Primum non nocere," the shrink...
- Author:Pennie, RossSummary:
In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table with what looks like epidemic mad cow disease. Zol Szabo, a public–health doctor and former chef, and Hamish...
- Author:Pennie, RossSummary:
Dr. Zol Szabo chose public health for its noble ideals and predictable hours. He never expected to be intimidated by the Prime Minister’s Office, roughed up by the RCMP, or threatened by the Hamilton mob.
Though Zol and his team...
- Author:Unsworth, NathanSummary:
Set in an AIDs hospital in an undisclosed African nation, Tea With the Tiger concerns itself with medicine and ethics. The novel explores the corrupt alliance between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. The...
- Author:Pearson, MarySummary:
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling...
- Author:MORTEN, ChristopherSummary:
The gripping tale of a brilliant war orphan forced to use his genius to repay a debt to a mysterious benefactor . The goal is to radically curb the world's soaring population - setting in motion genocide on an unimaginable scale....
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers, fishermen, and their families on...
- Author:Galgut, DamonSummary:
When Laurence Waters arrives at his post in a rural hospital in new South Africa, and convinces Dr. Ruth Ngema, head of the hospital, to set up clinics in the villages, the crime and corruption that follow put everyone involved in...
- Author:Calvert, CandaceSummary:
This collection bundles all three novels from author Candace Calvert's exciting Grace Medical series into one e-book for a great value!Trauma PlanSidelined by injuries from a vicious assault, chaplain Riley Hale is determined to...
- Author:Kerangal, Maylis deSummary:
Driving back home from an early-morning surfing trip with two friends, Simon Limbres is involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted country road. Framed within the twenty-four hours following the crash, this novel describes the...
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