DEADLY MEDICINE:
Thrillers and Suspense Novels in the World of Medicine 

Gary Birken

Final Diagnosis. Berkley, 2001.
Claire's stay in a state-of-the-art medical institute becomes something less than ordinary when her friend Erin, a reporter for the AMA News, begins to ask questions.

The Plague. Berkley, 2002.
One by one, the patients of Annick Clement are dying. When she traces the deaths to a killer virus, she discovers that it is the work of a deranged bioterrorist.

Alice Blanchard

Life Sentences. Warner, 2005.
While Boston-based scientist Daisy Hubbard struggles to to find a cure for the rare genetic disease that claimed the life of her brother, she finds out that her sister, Anna, who suffers from schizophrenia, has disappeared. Upon arriving in California, Daisy learns that a serial murder has confessed to killing Anna and that it may be linked somehow to her research.

Gary Braver

Flashback. Forge, 2005.
Three years after the sting of a rare jellyfish puts him into a coma, Kack Koryan awakens to find that the toxin has left him with an extraordinary memory, as well as horrifying flashbacks of violence. he comes to the attention of pharmacologist Rene Ballard, who has been disturbed to learn that the same toxin has been used on Alzheimer's patients with frightening results.

Gray Matter. Forge, 2002.
Type-A, over-achieivng parents Martin and Rachel Whitman seek a dangerous, top-secret new brain enhancement procedure for their developmentally disabled son at an exclusive clinic.

Jack Chase

Fatal Analysis. Signet, 1996.
Prominent Washington, D.C., psychiatrist Jason Andrews discovers that someone is using his revolutionary new drug-which can break through mental barriers to reveal hidden secrets and relieve psychological trauma-for a much darker purpose.

Mortality Rate. Signet, 1997.
A young medical student notices that an exceptionally high number of terminally ill patients are dying of strikingly similar causes.

Tony Chiu

Positive Match. Bantam, 1997.
How does MedEx, an organ donor transplant firm, manage to come up with so many needed body parts so quickly, and at such good prices? Dr. Nguyen-Anh Dupree stumbles upon the nasty answer.

April Christofferson

Clinical Trial. Forge, 2000.
Dr. Isabel McLain is called in to conduct a clinical trial of a vaccine whose developers claim will defeat the deadly hantavirus which has killed dozens of Native Americans. But is it truly safe, or are the Indians being used as human guinea pigs?

The Protocol. Forge, 1999.
Jennifer Rockhill bluffs her way into the job as in-house counsel for a Seattle biotech firm run by the doctor she suspects let her comatose husband die in order to sell his kidneys on the black market. Her thirst for revenge is eventually superceded by the desire to uncover the secret of an illegal genetic/cloning experiment and she finds an accomplice in the person of Matthew Place, a former CIA agent.

Patent to Kill. T. Doherty, 2005, 2003.
Dr. Jake Scully's decision to blow the whistle on his employer's descent into biopiracy, he places his life--and that of his family-- in danger.

Peter Clement

Lethal Practice. Ballantine, 1998.
When the Chief Administrator of St. Paul's Hospital is murdered with a cardiac needle, Dr. Earl Garnet races against time to clear himself as a suspect and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy far more sinister than he could possibly imagine. Followed by: Death Rounds (1999), The Procedure (2001), Mortal Remains (2003) and The Inquisitor (2004).

Mutant. Ballantine, 2001.
ER physician Richard Steele and geneticist Kathleen Sullivan join forces to investigate potentially devastating research involving genetically modified foods. Followed by: Critical Condition (2002).

Robin Cook

Coma. Little, Brown, 1977.
Patients undergoing routine surgery are dying and their bodies disappearing.

Brain. Putnam, 1981.
Two doctors put their careers-and their lives-on the line when they suspect something is very wrong at the medical center where they work.

Fever. Putnam, 1982.
A cancer researcher discovers his daughter is a victim of leukemia resulting from a chemical plant conspiracy that not only threatens to kill her, but will destroy his career if he tries to fight it.

Godplayer. Putnum, 1983.
Dr. Cassandra Kingsley, the wife of a brilliant heart surgeon is afraid that someone in the medical center where they work is causing a series of mysterious deaths.

Mindbend. Putnum, 1985.
When a future doctor trusts his pregnant wife's care to the clinic operated by the giant chemical company where he works, he never suspects that she will be subjected to terrifying experimentation.

Mortal Fear. Putnam, 1988.
Internist Jason Howard suspects that eminent biomolecular geneticist Alvin Hayes was murdered and tries to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse before it's too late.

Harmful Intent. Putnum, 1990.
When a mother and child die in childbirth following a routine spinal, anesthesiologist Jeffrey Rhodes is found guilty of malpractice and harmful intent. He flees the authorities in an effort to clear his name and learn what really happened that fatal day.

Vital Signs. Putnam, 1991.
Pediatrician Marissa Blumenthal is so desperate to have a baby that she is willing to undergo any scientific method available. But at the urban fertilization clinic she goes to she soon uncovers its terrifying secrets.

Blindsight. Putnum, 1992.
Dr. Laurie Montgomery investigates a series of fatal "overdoses" and uncovers an underground black market transplant business.

Terminal. Putnum, 1993.
Sean Murphy, a young medical student from Boston, accepts a post at Miami's Forbes Clinic where behind its incredible success rate at treating brain cancer patients he discovers an international conspiracy.

Fatal Cure. Putnum, 1994.
Bartlett Community Hospital in Vermont seems the ideal place for Boston doctors David and Angela Wilson, whose daughter suffers from cystic fibrosis. But after they begin working for the hospital and for the powerful HMO who administers it, they notice that patients-many with terminal illnesses or life-insurance policies in favor of Bartlett-are dying at an alarming rate.

Acceptable Risk. Putnum, 1995, 1994.
Research scientist Edward Armstrong discovers a personality-altering drug and involves himself and other researchers in a deadly experiment.

Cromosome 6. Putnum, 1997.
In New York, medical examiner Jack Stapleton and his colleague Laurie Montgomery are worried by some odd autopsy findings. Their investigation leads them to Equatorial Africa and Dr. Kevin Marshall, a scientist performing genetic experiments that could dramatically alter life on earth, who worries that he has traded his ethics for a gleaming futuristic lab. Forensic pathologists Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery re-appear in Vector (Putnam, 1999)

Toxin. Putnum, 1998.
After his only son dies from the E.coli bacteria following a dinner of burgers and fries at a local fast food place, Dr. Kim Regis searches for the source of the contamination but powerful forces aim to stop him.

Shock. GPPS, 2001.
Two graduate science students see a way to solve their financial woes by donating their eggs to an exclusive fertility clinic, undeterred by the rumors that a fellow student donor has disappeared.

Seizure. Putnam, 2003.
A powerful senator opposing all biotechnical research makes a Faustian bargain when he develops Parkinson's Disease.

William Cutrer and Sandra Glahn

Lethal Harvest. Kregel, 2000.
A neurological disease affecting the President of the United States is linked to a series of crimes at the Fertility Clinic where the Commander-in-Chief's nephew, an embryologist, was conducting experiments to find a cure.

Deadly Cure. Kregel, 2001.
In the wake of Dr. Tim Sullivan's death, a number of his records regarding his research in illegal human cloning turn up missing. His family and colleagues soon find themselves struggling to survive a treacherous mix of hidden agendas in the hunt to obtain the secrets of Sullivan's research.

False Positive. Waterbrook, 2002.
Medical Resident "Red" Richardson becomes suspicious about the practices at a nearby ritzy abortion clinic after a woman is rushed into the ER in shock from massive blood loss.

John Denton

Mind Catcher. Dutton, 2002.
Two ambitious, pioneering neurosurgeons with very different agendas, place the life of a 13-year-old brain-damaged patient in jeopardy.

Nicholas Delbanco

In the Name of Mercy. Warner, 1995.
After assisting his cancer-stricken wife to commit suicide, Dr. Peter Julius accepts an offer to run a hospice for the critically ill. But when several unexplained deaths occur during his shift, many fear that his practice has moved beyond mercy and into the realm of murder.

Don Donaldson

In the Blood. Berkley, 2001.
A cancer survivor who wishes to claim her commercially stored eggs discovers that they have been stolen.

Eileen Dreyer

Nothing Personal. HarperPaperbacks, 1994.
A serial killer is stalking the staff as a St. Louis hospital and suspicion falls upon nurse Kate Manion.

Bad Medicine. HarperPaperbacks, 1995.
When several prominent lawyers commit suicide, trauma nurse and part-time investigator Molly Burke searches for a link between the victims beyond their bar association, but powerful forces are out to stop her.

Brain Dead. HarperCollins, 1997.
Forensic nurse Timmie Leary moves back to her hometown of Puckett, MO, from Los Angeles to modernize Memorial Hospital's ER. Soon elderly patients start dying. Aided by boozy, two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Daniel Murphy, Timmie digs for answers, but finding the truth may cost her more than her job.

David Farris

Lie Still. HarTorch, 2004, 2003.
Dr. Malcolm Ishmail comes to the horrifying conclusion that his career downslide and the loss of life of his patients is the work of a former lover who he had reported for a string of botched surgeries years earlier.

David E. Feldman

Bad Blood: A Long Island Mystery. 1stBooks, 2002.
Bennett James tries to discover the person responsible for deliberately injecting the patients as his hospital with HIV-infected blood.

Nancy Fisher

Vital Parts. Signet, 1993.
Model Vivienne Laker is offered the promise of eternal health and beauty but the cost will be far more than she is willing to pay.

Side Effects. Signet, 1994.
Weary of emergency medicine, Dr. Kate Martin takes a job as a consultant for a pharmaceutical company where she discovers a cover-up behind a supposedly miraculous anti-aging drug with horrifying side effects.

Special Treatment. Signet, 1996.
Dr. Adam Salt and magazine reporter Robin Kennedy wonder if some new, undetectable drug is behind the sudden resurgence of mysterious entrepreneur Morgan Hudson's baseball team. And when players suddenly succumb to bizarre, uncontrollable rages and the club's reclusive owner is murdered, Salt and Kennedy team together to track down a killer.

Code Red. Signet, 1998.
While in the Peruvian jungle where a deadly virus has struck, a NYC virologist falls in love with Dr. Jean Pierre Didier. But their romance is shattered when she is swept up in a deadly medical conspiracy.

Code Blue. NAL, 2000.
When a number of her patients die under suspicious circumstances, plastic surgeon Taylor Barnes, a recovering alcoholic, finds her own life threatened when she gets too close to a doctor conducting research in organ cryopreservation.

Steven Ford

The Protocol. Berkley, 2000.
Dr. Susan Keane becomes deeply alarmed when her cancer patients begin to die after being given a secret, experimental treatment discovered in the Amazon jungles. When she begins to investigate the origins of the "treatment," her darkest suspicions fall upon her own co-workers. Even worse, the surviving patients are now carriers of this lethal infection...and one of them is missing.

Mortality. Berkley, 2003.
Plastic surgeon Paul Tobin's career is resurrected at an exclusive clinic run by his brother-in-law that specializes in a revolutionary new therapy that reverses the aging process. It doesn't take Tobin long to realize that something is not quite right.

First Do No Harm. Berkley, 2004.
Two scientists clash over a mutated culture of smallpox called Enigma. Is it a cure? Or a biological time bomb?

Tess Gerrittsen

Harvest. Pocket Books, 1996.
Abby DiMatteo, a talented surgical resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital, begins to suspect an illegal organ-procurement ring is operating in the prestigious facility.

Life Support. Pocket Books, 1997.
An ER physician working the graveyard shift traces the suspicious deaths of two aged patients to illicit anti-aging experiments with the aid of Medical Examiner David Dvorak.

Bloodstream. Pocket Books, 1998.
Dr. Claire Elliott and Chief Lincoln Kelly battle against a brain altering parasite that spreads a plague of violence in the small resort town of Tranquility, ME, and discover that similar outbreaks have occurred in the town's past.

Gravity. Pocket Books, 1999.
Dr. Emma Watson's mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare as she combats a lethal microbe that is multiplying out of control.

The Surgeon. Ballantine, 2001.
Two Boston detectives lead the search for a serial killer dubbed "The Surgeon," because of the manner in which he butchers his female victims. Could it possibly be the same murderer that one of his previous victims, Dr. Catherine Campbell supposedly killed in self-defense several years earlier in Savannah, GA.

Joshua Gilder

Ghost Image. S&S, 2002.
When plastic surgeon Jackson Maebry is called to the ER to work on a horribly disfigured woman, he discovers that the victim is his own girlfriend, a fact he withholds from everyone, including the police. This intentional oversight makes him a suspect even as he investigates the crime on his own.

Leonard S. Goldberg

Goldberg's series features Los Angeles forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock and Detective Jake Sinclair who join forces to solve a variety of cover-ups, conspiracies, and murders.

Deadly Medicine. Signet, 1992.
Deadly Practice. Signet, 1994.
Deadly Care. Dutton, 1996.
Deadly Harvest. Dutton, 1997.
Deadly Exposure. Dutton, 1998.
Lethal Measures. Dutton, 2000.
Fatal Cure. Signet, 2001.
Brainwaves. NAL, 2002.
Fever Cell. NAL, 2003.

Kevin Guilfoile

Cast of Shadows. Knopf, 2005.
Unbalanced by the brutal rape and murder of his daughter--a case still unsolved--a Chicago fertility doctor who specialized in human cloning uses the unidentified killer's DNA and an unsuspecting client couple to create a clone so that one day he'll be able to put a face to the fiend.

Philip Harper

Final Fear. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
When a friend of reporter George Gray mysteriously dies at Clarke Hospital in Philadelphia, he investigates a doctor who may be torturing his patients.

Peter Hernon

The Kindling Effect. Morrow, 1996.
Conducting electromagnetic experiments on criminals in an attempt to control their behavior, Dr. John Brook is shocked when the treatments have the opposite effect and two prisoners escape to commit further violence.

Echo Heron

Quirky RN Adele Monsarrat works in a big city hospital where anything can happen and usually does-including murder.

Panic. Ivy, 1998.
Paradox. Ivy, 1998.
Pulse. Ivy, 1998.
Fatal Diagnosis. Ballantine, 2000.

Scott Holden

The Carrier. St. Martin's, 2000.
After a college professor steals graduate student Jack Collier's cure for cancer, he unwittingly turns the cure into a liquid that is deadly to the touch...and Jack becomes its carrier.

Renee B. Horowitz

Ruthie Kantor Morris, a 50-ish widow who manages the pharmacy counter at a Scottsdale, AZ, supermarket, uses her knowledge of drugs to solve murders.

Rx for Murder. Avon, 1997.
Deadly Rx. Avon, 1997.

Jeffrey Hudson (Michael Crichton)

A Case of Need. Dutton, 1993, 1968.
When a woman bleeds to death on the operating table and her physician is accused of murder another doctor searches for the horrible truth.

Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

Do No Harm. Morrow, 2002.
Dr. David Spier come to suspect that a disturbed man who has been attacking his hospital's ER staff was an unwitting participant in a secret medical study years earlier.

Frank Huyler

The Laws of Invisible Things. H. Holt, 2004.
When a young girl unexpectedly dies under his care, Dr. Michael Grant is blamed, but he come to believe he has discovered a new, undocumented disease.

Oakely Jordan

Death's Parallel. Rainbow, 2002.
A Memphis doctor under fire for assisting his terminally ill patients to die with dignity on their own terms finds an unwanted supporter in a yet un-apprehended serial killer.

Daniel Kalla

Pandemic. Tor, 2005.
Just as Dr. Noah Haldane has warned, a virus more deadly than SARS strikes, but he is shocked to learn that it has been intentionally unleashed.

Stephen Kanar

The J Factor. Bantam, 2000.
In the near future, when Big Business runs the health care industry, the Justification Factor decides who lives and who dies based not upon medical need but on whether the person is deemed "good" or "bad." When a young surgeon and an attorney learn the consequences of violating this mandate.

Mary Kittredge

Edwina Crusoe, is a single, attractive, and fiercely independent nurse in New Haven, CT, who also has a talent for crime-solving.

Fatal Diagnosis. St. Martin's, 1990.
Rigor Mortis. St. Martin's, 1991.
Cadaver. St. Martin's, 1992.
Walking Dead Man. St. Martin's, 1992.
Desperate Remedy. St. Martin's, 1993.
Kill or Cure. St. Martin's, 1995.

Harry Lee Kraus

Fated Genes. Crossway, 1996.
Web Tyson may be the next Surgeon General if the truth about what's happening in Room 525 of the Crestview Hospital doesn't leak out. Lenore Kingsley, who is conducting secret experiments in gene splicing, has her own reasons for seeing Tyson achieve his goal, but an over-worked and ambitious pediatrician stands in the way.

Rochelle Krich

Fertile Ground. Avon, 1998.
After a young woman who has donated her eggs to a prestigious L.A. fertility clinic is murdered, the clinic's director disappears. His fiance, Dr. Lisa Brockman, begins her own investigation into clinic's files to learn the truth about what has happened.

Jerry Labriola

Murders at Hollings General. Strong Books, 2000.
Quirky Dr. David Brooks, who prefers sleuthing to practicing medicine, is asked by his fiance, police detective Kathy Dupre, to help investigate after a pair of murders takes place at Hollings Hospital. Followed by: Murders at Brent Institute (2003).

Jodie Larsen

Deadly Company. Onyx, 1996.
A brilliant pharmaceutical researcher joins forces with a first-grade teacher and a protective father when evidence is uncovered involving a terrifying experiment being carried out on unsuspecting elementary school students.

Patrick Lynch

Carriers. Villard, 1995.
When a plague-like outbreak strikes Indonesia, allied governments try haphazardly to control the epidemic. The crisis brings Holly Becker in search of her two daughters, likely victims of the plague and in her quest may be the secret to the terror.

Omega. Dutton, 1997.
A virulent bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics is killing off patients in a Los Angeles trauma unit. When Dr. Marcus Ford's daughter falls victim to the virus, the only hope is Omega-a radical, genetically engineered antibiotic that is only rumored to exist.

The Policy. Dutton, 1998.
When an insurance company executive dies under suspicious circumstances, entry-level actuary Alex Tynan decides to investigate and uncovers ties to secret Swiss bank accounts, secret DNA testing of policy applicants, and questionable biomedical research

John S. Marr & John Baldwin

The Eleventh Plague. Cliff Street, 1998.
Noted virologist Jack Byrne sets out to track down a brilliant and demented serial killer using bio-terrorism as his weapon.

Neil McMahon

Twice Dying. HarCol, 2000.
Psychiatrist Alison Cahlpy asks her former lover, ER doctor & malpractice investigator Carroll Monks, for help when she suspects that her boss is intentionally releasing dangerous psychopaths back into society. Followed by: Blood Double (2002) and To the Bone (2003).

Ben Mezrich

Threshold. HarperCollins, 1996.
Geneticist Jeremy Ross agrees to help an old girlfriend investigate her father's death and his search leads him to a secret genetic research facility in South Carolina.

Reaper. HarperCollins, 1998.
Two doctors search for answers to combat a rogue communications virus that strikes from TV and computer screens.

Fertile Ground. HarperCollins, 1999.
Fertility doctor Jake Foster discovers a new syndrome causing male sterility--including his own--while his wife, Brett, a second-year attending at Boston Central, has seen several healthy young men die from massive internal and external hemorrhaging. They soon realize that both outbreaks have the same cause--a mysterious compound developed by a powerful company called Alaxon.

Timothy Miller

Practice to Deceive. Fine, 1991.
Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Lionel Stern learns that a flashy, self-taught colleague with his own cosmetic surgery empire is dealing in more than silicone.

Alan Nayes

Gargoyles. T. Doherty, 2001.
A pre-med student chooses surrogate motherhood as a means of making money finds herself in the middle of a horrific cloning experiment.

Michael Palmer

The Sisterhood. Bantam, 1995, 1982.
One by one, patients at Boston Doctor's Hospital survive delicate surgery only to die horribly thereafter. No one knows why except the Sisterhood-nurses bound together by a deadly pledge.

Side Effects. Bantam, 1991, 1985.
A pathologist at Boston Memorial Hospital races against time as she searched for the cause of a strange and deadly illness but important people will stop at nothing to protect their secret.

Flash Back. Bantam, 1988.
Months after undergoing a routine operation eight year old Toby still bursts into tortured screams.

Extreme Measures. Bantam, 1991.
When a young physician questions the whereabouts of an ER patient's body, he becomes the target of a sinister elite clique of medical professionals.

Natural Causes. Bantam, 1994.
Dr. Sarah Baldwin doesn't know why pregnant women are hemorrhaging to death and the only common link is the prenatal herbal vitamins she has prescribed.

Silent Treatment. Bantam, 1995.
When several patients-including his wife-die under mysterious circumstances in city hospitals, suspicion falls on Dr. Harry Corbett who believes that one of his colleagues is a sadistic madman.

Critical Judgment. Bantam, 1996.
After joining the staff of an isolated regional hospital in Patience, CA, Dr. Abby Dolan suspects that the inexplicable ailments popping up in her ER might be linked with environmental contamination caused by a local manufacturer where her fiancé works.

Miracle Cure. Bantam, 1998.
A cardiologist recovering from an addiction to painkillers gets a job testing an extraordinary new drug that claims to reverse arteriosclerosis, but he suspects foul play when a colleague disappears and a patient who was making great progress suddenly dies.

The Patient. Bantam, 2000.
Brain surgeon Jessie Copeland, who is part of a team experimenting on a worm-sized robot that can be sent inside a patient's brain to remove "inoperable" tumors becomes the target of a terrorist who needs juts such a life-saving operation.

Fatal. Bantam, 2002.
Dr. Matt Rutledge is convinced that a series of deaths--including those of his father and wife--is linked to a local coal mining company's careless disposal of toxic chemicals.

The Society. Bantam, 2004.
A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry. When HMO critic Dr. Will Grant finds himself falling under suspicion, he forms a reluctant alliance with rookie detective, Patty Moriarty.

Steve R. Pieczenik

Blood Heat. HBJ, 1988.
In the heart of America a bubonic plague-like epidemic rages. As Dr. Orestes Bradley hunts for the origins of the disease, he will uncover a conspiracy at the highest levels of the U.S. government, the Army, the pharmaceutical industry and the dreaded Japanese Yakuza.

Stanley Pottinger

The Fourth Procedure. Ballantine, 1995.
When the President nominates Abner Titus to the Supreme Court it is believed that his swing vote will enable the court to outlaw abortion. Congressman Jack Macleod is in love with a woman whose closest friend is organ transplant surgeon, Dr. Rachel Redpath, who also happens to be Judge Titus' personal physician and who would do anything to prevent his voting to overturn the abortion ruling. In the meantime, already autopsied corpses begin turning up in the District of Columbia morgue, their livers removed and little dolls deposited in the empty spaces.

A Slow Burning. Dutton, 2000.
Two men who have been shaped by racial hatred--a white cop and a black scientist--must put aside their mutual animosity when the woman they both love is felled by a sniper's bullet. Her only hope is a radical brain procedure, but even if they save her, the sniper is ready to strike again.

Final Procedure. St. Martin's, 2004, 2003.
FBI agent Melissa Gale races against time to bring a former Nazi doctor to justice before he unleashes a biological terror, unaware that he is also seeking her, for the baby she carries holds the genetic key to his plot

Richard Preston

The Cobra Event. Random, 1997.
A 17-year old student leaves for school with what she thinks is the start of a slight cold but within hours has died a hideous death. Other gruesome deaths follow and what a pathologist from the CDC finds precipitates a National crisis. By the author of The Hot Zone.

Suzanne Proulx

Bad Blood. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1999.
Victoria Lucci wears Norma Kamali, dates too many married men, and strives to keep her Denver hospital out of the headlines. But her job is about to take an unlucky turn--patients are turning up dead, and it looks like someone in the hospital is responsible.

Frank M. Robinson

The Donor. T. Doherty, 2004.
Dennis wakes up in a small private hospital after a minor car accident to discover one of his kidney's is missing. When he learns that his second kidney is to be harvested, he runs for his life and discovers that the danger lies very close to home.

Leah Ruth Robinson

First Cut. Avon, 1997.
ER resident Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe throws herself headlong into the case of a serial murderer known as the "Babydoll Killer" when she loses a close friend to the killer, a psychopath who had once targeted Evelyn herself. Followed by: Blood Run (1999) and Unnatural Causes (1999)

Francis J. C. Roe

Under the Knife. Onyx, 1998.
When a patient inexplicably dies and other suspicious deaths follow, Dr. Mike Redmond realizes that he's a crucial link in a diabolical conspiracy.

Holden Scott

Skeptic. St. Martin's, 1999.
After Dr. Michael Ballantine's best friend, Massachusetts Governor Andrew Kyle, is killed in what looks like an assassination he begins to have nightmarish hallucinations...or is it possible that ghosts do exist? It seems that one of his research students has developed a solution with strange side-effects, namely, the ability to activate spirits. With the help of CIA operative Amber Chen, Ballantine tries to stop Kyle's killers from obtaining the critical elements of his lab's research.

The Carrier. St. Martin's, 2000.
Jack Collier's cure for cancer, which involves using flesh-eating bacteria to attack cancerous cells, is stolen by his mentor, who then has him expelled from Harvard. Desperate to save his cancer-stricken girlfriend, Jack steals back his cure, but is unwittingly turned into a carrier of death.

David Shobin

The Center. St. Martin's, 1997.
The Center is a high-tech hospital where computers, not humans, treat patients. Although its success rate is astonishingly high, when a child mysteriously dies there, her sister asks surgeon Chad Dunston to investigate. Unable to get any satisfactory answers, Dunston checks himself in as a patient and soon has to worry if he leave The Center alive.

Terminal Condition. St. Martin's, 1998.
A young doctor at New York's most prestigious hospital discovers that horrific human experiments are taking place within its walls.

The Provider. St.Martin's, 2000.
Dr. Brad Hawkins tries to uncover the truth behind a series of senseless deaths in University Hospital's neo-natal unit. His investigation reveals an unthinkable conspiracy of evil and greed.

The Cure. St.Martin's, 2001.
A Long Island physician begins to suspect that a herbal supplement he has been endorsing may be causing serious adverse reactions.

Steve G. Spruill

Painkiller. St. Martin's, 1990.
Dr. Sharon Francis is a resident at Adams Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., where her schizophrenic mother is a patient. When her mother insists that other patients in the psychiatric ward are being persuaded to sign themselves out and are then being kidnapped, Sharon checks up on one of the "missing" patients. Then one of her own patients disappears, and she begins some serious investigating.

My Soul to Take. St. Martin's, 1994.
Blind patients implanted with a microchip to restore their sight begin to see the future, and there are those who would very much like to use this technology for nefarious purposes.

Harry Stein

Magic Bullet. Doubleday, 1995.
When Daniel Logan and two of his colleagues unearth a component that may effectively ward off breast cancer, rivals at the prestigious American Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., try to sabotage their research in order to protect their own lucrative drug studies.

Infinity's Child. Delacorte, 1997.
The Benedicts are thrilled to finally be having a baby, but ruthless scientists, desperate for a medical miracle and the billions of dollars it will bring, need the baby's organs.

Martha Stearn

Critical Condition. Signet, 1993.
Two dedicated doctors at a Los Angeles hospital who are also lovers attempt to find an explanation behind the deadly disease that is striking both staff and patients.

Deadly Diagnosis. Signet, 1995.
A new deadly strain of the AIDS virus is traced back to a powerful New Jersey pharmaceutical company.

Graham Watkins

Virus. St. Martin's, 1996.
In a large hospital, two doctors investigate a bizarre and deadly disease that is somehow connected with computers and a game program called Penultimate, where losing can be fatal.

Charles Wilson

Fertile Ground. St. MArtin's, 1996.
While exploring uncharted parts of the Amazon looking for vital disease-fighting plants, Delaney and Jordan Jeffries are attacked by mysterious natives and Delaney is infected with a deadly virus that they bring back with them to America.

Donor. St. Martin's, 1999.
Young ER doctor Michael Sims feels that too many of his patients are dying without cause. Shannon Donnelly believes the police are wrong in ruling the death of her Congressman father a suicide. The two team to uncover the truth about a terrifying medical experiment involving nerve regeneration and organ transplants that is protected at the highest levels of government.

Embryo. St. Martin's, 1999.
A successful woman takes a desperate gamble to have a child. A young lawyer discovers a fatal flaw in an unethical experiment. And a new life begins--a life that could signal a revolution in modern medicine...or disaster.

F. Paul Wilson

The Select. Morrow, 1994.
The prestigious Ingraham College of Medicine offers the highest quality education and it is tuition free, but only if the applicants fit the profile demanded by the faculty. But two medical students who are accepted to the institution learn that all is not what it seems.