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  • Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Only One Cure by Jenifer Ruff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The President's son is dying. Terrorists claim to have the only cure.When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington D.C. for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway—but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career...
  • Turning Point Club Box Set by J.A. Huss

    Turning Point Club Box Set by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enter a world that is real, raw, and filled with dark romance – this 2500+ page set contains the USA Today Bestselling Series and spinoffs Taking Turns, Turning Back, His Turn, Total Exposure, The Pleasure of Panic, The Boyfriend Experience, and Play Dirty...
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    suspense  billionaire  psychological  fiction  book  adult
  • Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham

    Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer by Michael Stockham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Battling against a Texas prison, a young lawyer fights for a fair trial in a prison-friendly town as witnesses and evidence evaporate.Scarred physically and emotionally by a botched delivery, his wife struggles to realize their dream of a healthy baby and a happy family.Trapped in solitary confinement, an inmate fights for medicine to keep his failing heart pumping...
  • A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch

    A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Who needs enemies when you have a friend like that? I should wonder why I feel so comfortable with Taylor. Why I’m so enamored with a stranger I met at a bar.I should, but I don’t. Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she spends her days at a dingy Manhattan pub just so she won’t have to tell anyone the shameful truth...
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    suspense  adult  book  family  fiction  psychological
  • Dead Still by Barbara Ebel

    Dead Still by Barbara Ebel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Annabel Tilson is a medical student finally liberated from the two-year confinement of lecture halls and gross anatomy. The first clinical rotation of her junior year is surgery where she has high hopes of mastering the basis of patient care like her famous neurosurgeon father...
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    medical  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  crime  fiction  legal
  • 20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On a warm summer's morning in London, there's a lot more than just smog in the air. There's the romance of a first date. There's the courage of the emergency services. And there's the danger from those with dark secrets to hide...20 Minutes. 20 People...
  • Raney & Levine by J.A. Schneider

    Raney & Levine by J.A. Schneider

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Another doctors-&-cops adrenalin-packed thriller: A murderous religious zealot threatens women ("sinners!"), a little baby, and a hospital. First, tension enters Jill Raney's and David Levine's relationship over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels he'd be safer adopted anonymously...
  • The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst

    The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He thinks his secret is safe. But she knows the truth…My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming and everybody trusts him. Except me.On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.Doctor Drew Devlin is not the respectable figure he makes out to be...
  • Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne

    Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming…Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky.But then I heard the rumors about his previous girlfriend, that she had vanished without a trace. That’s when I found the cameras in my apartment.I was trapped...
  • Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost comes the chilling story of a young woman who returns to her haunted childhood home to unravel the deadly mysteries of her family’s past.Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, envied by all her friends. But when her mother died mysteriously there, the thrills of Blackworth Mansion became nightmares...
  • She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

    She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple.Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse...
  • Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Has her husband really left her? Or is someone playing a deadly game?When Eva’s husband Samuel doesn’t come home from a boys’ night out, she thinks he’s sleeping off his hangover at a friend’s house. So she waits. And waits...Eventually, he sends her a text – he’s met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated...
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    suspense  fiction  psychological  thriller  book  adult
  • The Sleepwalker by Ian Blackwood

    The Sleepwalker by Ian Blackwood

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ellie has a problem. The monster in her dreams has come to life.Dr. Ellie Thompson has always been haunted by her nightmares. But now they're bleeding into reality. She wakes to find there really is glass in her foot, a knife under her pillow...
  • Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Suicide Med by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a reason Southside Medical School has been nicknamed “Suicide Med.” For the last six years, every year one student has taken his own life.Except for last year. Last year was a murder-suicide.The press has pointed to the heavy workload as the culprit in the high suicide rate. Some students believe that the school is cursed...
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    medical  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder
  • The Other You by J.S. Monroe

    The Other You by J.S. Monroe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Is he who you think he is?Kate used to be good at recognising people. So good, she worked for the police, identifying criminals in crowds of thousands. But six months ago, a devastating car accident led to a brain injury. Now the woman who never forgot a face can barely recognise herself in the mirror.At least she has Rob...
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    medical  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • Multiple Motives by Kassandra Lamb

    Multiple Motives by Kassandra Lamb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychotherapist Kate Huntington helps other people cope with the horrible things that have happened to them, but she herself has led a charmed life... so far. Now a killer with a mysterious grudge against her and her closest friend, lawyer Rob Franklin, is threatening everyone and everything that she holds dear...
  • The Dinner Guests by Kiersten Modglin

    The Dinner Guests by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six friends.A lifetime of secrets.One terrifying game.When a group of friends receives unexpected invitations to a dinner party, they see it as a chance to finally meet the bizarre and reclusive new neighbor whose home is enshrouded in layers of security.As the drinks are poured and dinner is served, the group begins to realize things are not what they seem...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  psychological  thriller
  • Alchemist by Peter James

    Alchemist by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As chilling as Stephen King as credible as Michael Crichton - a gripping novel of terror and...
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    medical  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • First Do No Evil by Carey Baldwin

    First Do No Evil by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bella: It's a lifesaving vaccine with one deadly side effect—murder. There’s a killer lurking in Dr. Skylar Novak’s family tree—the gene for breast cancer. That's why her brilliant brother invented the Bella vaccine. But even if the miracle drug protects her from the cancer that took her mother's life, it can't save Sky from the flesh and bone evil stalking her in secret...
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    medical  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  murder
  • Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X...
  • Broken House by Tom Turner

    Broken House by Tom Turner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new psychological novel from Tom Turner, author of the Charlie Crawford - Palm Beach series Hedge fund honcho Cam Crawford just checked himself into a ritzy Connecticut rehab facility. Admitted the same day were a drunk, an addict, and a psychopath...
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    suspense  fiction  psychological  thriller  book  adult
  • Swimming Monkeys by Steve Hadden

    Swimming Monkeys by Steve Hadden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An impossible promise…a remarkable discovery…a decision on behalf of mankind…A cross between Jurassic Park and The Da Vinci Code, Swimming Monkeys is a coming-of-age thriller that examines the on-going struggle between science and religion.Ryan Webster is a seventeen-year-old swimmer who despises his father, protects his mother and barely keeps gas in his truck...
  • Reunion at Mossy Creek by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain

    Reunion at Mossy Creek by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stubborn residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life...
  • Ward Zero by Linda Huber

    Ward Zero by Linda Huber

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Horror swept through her. Had she been buried alive? On Sarah’s first visit to see her foster mother, Mim, in Brockburn General Hospital, she is sucked into a world that isn’t what it should be. Someone is lying, someone is stealing. And someone is killing – but who? With a grieving child to take care of, as well as Mim, Sarah has to put family first...
  • The Lost Girl by Mark Gillespie

    The Lost Girl by Mark Gillespie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Darcy vanished thirteen years ago. Today, she’s coming home. Darcy Drummond was four when she was kidnapped on a crowded beach. A massive police search and media frenzy followed but the girl was never found. Most people gave Darcy up for dead. Or worse. Then, one fateful night, she walks into a police station. Seventeen years old. A chance to start over...
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    suspense  fiction  psychological  thriller  book  adult
  • 20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes To Go Viral by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something is spreading in the peaceful town of Amberfall. Something that threatens the whole of humanity. Something is going viral. 20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 stories that will make you want to stay inside and never greet another human being again. This is a short novella about a viral outbreak in a small town in the Lake District and shows how quickly disease can spread amongst the population...
  • The Hospital by Leslie Wolfe

    The Hospital by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When I wake up, I know three things. My name is Emma. Someone tried to kill me. And I can’t remember who. When I blink, my eyelashes brush against scratchy cloth. My fingers twitch, numb and distant. In the distance, sirens wail. I’m in the hospital. I should be safe here, but I know I’m not...
  • The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene

    The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark.Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You...
  • The Dark Before Dawn by Laurie Stevens

    The Dark Before Dawn by Laurie Stevens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    High in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, grisly murders are taking place. On each of the victim's bodies a note is left for L.A. Sheriff's detective, Gabriel McRay. The killer's identity is locked in the suppressed memory of a horrifying trauma from Gabriel's own childhood.Teamed with his forensic pathologist girlfriend and his pyschiatrist, Gabriel runs two parallel investigations...
  • Mercy by Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer

    Mercy by Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiance, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack...
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    medical  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  disability  fiction
  • Black Death in a New Age by Kathy T. Kale

    Black Death in a New Age by Kathy T. Kale

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CAN A PLAGUE PANDEMIC STRIKE AGAIN? What happens when there is no treatment for the plague? Before antibiotics, millions lost their lives. Today, some plague bacterial strains have acquired resistance, while others have been weaponized for war. In light of this threat, Dr. Dana Sparks, an immunology professor at Duane University is searching for a vaccine...
  • How to Spot a Psychopath by M.Q. Webb

    How to Spot a Psychopath by M.Q. Webb

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We’ve all wondered about someone... are they... how do I know? How to Spot a Psychopath is a thoughtful, intelligent, psychological thriller full of conflicting accounts and sharp turns. How to Spot a Psychopath will keep you questioning who is hiding what, and why...
  • The Patient's List by James Caine

    The Patient's List by James Caine

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The new patient whispered a list of names. One by one they're each dying.Rina Kent was the new hot shot psychiatrist at Holy Saints ward. She also recently married the love of her life, who's also a doctor at the same hospital. Rina felt on top of the world, until one of her patients committed suicide.Rina knows it was her fault.A year later, her marriage has already gone down in flames...
  • The Euthanist by Alex Dolan

    The Euthanist by Alex Dolan

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this auspicious debut, Alex Dolan announces himself as a virtuoso of psychological suspense and a rightful heir to masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens...
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    medical  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  investigator
  • Ghosted by J.E. Rowney

    Ghosted by J.E. Rowney

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Violet and Zoe are best friends, joined at the hip...until Zoe vanishes. Meanwhile Violet tries to juggle a new relationship and a demanding job as a midwife, where she meets a mum-to-be who faces her own unexpected challenges. Who can Violet turn to to help her to find out what lies behind Zoe’s disappearance?This is a story with twists and turns. A story of friendship. A story of trust...
  • Rage Therapy by Daniel Kalla

    Rage Therapy by Daniel Kalla

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A compelling psychological thriller that probes the darkest compulsions of the human mind. Dr. Stanley Kolberg was not just murdered. His lifeless body was battered and broken almost beyond recognition, as though his unknown killer had been driven by a ferocious rage that had exploded madly out of control. As far as the Seattle police are concerned, there is no shortage of suspects...
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    medical  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  murder  mystery
  • The Truth by Naomi Joy

    The Truth by Naomi Joy

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect wife. Perfect life. Perfect crime.Anthony is not the man everyone believes him to be. And Emelia is not the woman he wants her to be.Theirs was a whirlwind romance, Anthony was the doting boyfriend, the charismatic and successful career man who swept her off her feet. But now Emelia is trapped in a marriage of dark secrets and obsession...
  • Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt

    Shadow Girl by Gerry Schmitt

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky...
  • Dead Med by Freida McFadden, Patricia Santomasso

    Dead Med by Freida McFadden, Patricia Santomasso

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes an electrifying medical thriller, Dead Med, originally published as Suicide Med."All I can think about is how pathetic it would be to die in the anatomy lab. The last thing I want is to become one of the dead bodies."When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes...
  • Under the Knife by Kelly Parsons

    Under the Knife by Kelly Parsons

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the author of Doing Harm, a thriller in which a grieving, vengeful husband stalks the surgeon he blames for his wife's untimely death.Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others...
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    medical  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • I Know You Do by Georgette Deloriad

    I Know You Do by Georgette Deloriad

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Step into the mind of Georgi, a 40-year-old woman with a combination of debilitating medical conditions that are killing her. But today, she takes back control... Escaping her isolated existence with her abusive husband to board the luxurious ship of a controversial offshore organization, D-LAD...
  • Heads Will Roll: A Medical Thriller by Joanie Chevalier

    Heads Will Roll: A Medical Thriller by Joanie Chevalier

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if, in the near future, we could choose the body we wanted? We could visit a store front, much like a neighborhood mom-and-pop shop, and we’d see all the available bodies lined up in a glass-enclosed case. We’d be able to choose the body we wanted, purchase it, have an operation, and wham bam! wake up with our new body. Dr...
    Categorized as:
    medical  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  murder
  • Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle

    Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late….In Baltimore’s St...
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