Medical & Forensic

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! This thrilling full-cast recording features Reese Witherspoon as Maggie and Chris Pine as Marc, supported by Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey. AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable...

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her....

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit....

In From Potter’s Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately...

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton...

Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds...

In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame.... It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior...

This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman...

From one of the world’s top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel. A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta...

The world’s bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally. Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary...

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. On her quest to find out...

New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead....

The death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers. Together with his policeman friend and a police dog, he sets out on a quest for justice for his lost patient, but he discovers more questions than answers as he delves into the criminal world.

Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career...

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi....

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could...

The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to...

At first glance, the murder of Peggy Frampton looks like a burglary gone wrong. But DS George Cross, with his meticulous methods, thinks otherwise. The victim, a former mayor of Bristol, is now an online influencer....

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain.

From the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced spine chiller about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as we know it. “Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game.” –#1 NYT...

What would you do if you woke up with part of your memory erased, your fiancée missing, and the most dangerous secret in the world locked inside your own mind? When neurosurgeon Dr. David Thomas regains consciousness in a locked room with twenty-one fresh stitches across his head, he remembers only one thing with absolute clarity: Charlotte, his fiancée. But Charlotte is gone. Their home has been destroyed, and the last two months of David’s life have vanished without a trace. As memories return in violent flashes, one chilling truth becomes impossible to ignore: someone wanted them ...

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

È la notte di Natale a Central Park e Temple Gault, l'inafferrabile serial killer, guarda la sua ultima vittima mentre si lava il sangue dalle mani con la neve appena caduta. Kay sta eseguendo un'autopsia quando riceve la notizia che il killer è tornato in azione. E l'incubo ricomincia. Mentre Scarpetta inizia a indagare, Gault uccide ancora. E colpisce molto vicino a Kay. È chiaro che il suo vero obiettivo è proprio lei.

Christian Hale went to the clinic for a routine dental procedure. He woke up with a shadow living behind his teeth. At first it is just a slight delay in his reflection. A second breath originating from deep within his own lungs. But the symptoms are escalating. The parasite is growing, learning, and mimicking his voice with absolute perfection. Worse still, the clinic has no record of his visit, internet forums discussing similar symptoms are being systematically scrubbed, and the files tracking his physical takeover prove they have been watching him the entire time. Trapped inside a ...

The vaccine works. The data says it doesn't. Someone made sure of that. Bartholomew Aldridge investigates corporate crime — the kind that happens behind boardroom doors, inside data systems, in the space between what companies say and what they do. When an insurer hires his four-person team to examine a failed clinical trial for a pandemic vaccine, the question seems simple: is the failure real? It isn't. The trial data has been systematically corrupted. A vaccine that could save thousands of lives has been made to look like it doesn't work. Finding the sabotage was the first problem. ...

The perfect wife. The perfect lie. Jessica Leighton has everything she ever wanted. A beautiful home on the Maine coast. A husband who saves lives for a living. A fresh start in a town where no one knows her name. But the fog that rolls in off the Atlantic isn't the only thing hiding something. Jessica is losing time. Hours disappear without warning. She wakes in rooms she doesn't remember entering, wearing clothes she didn't choose. A journal appears in her guest room, filled with handwriting that isn't hers, signed by a woman named Elise. A woman who knows things about Nathan that only a ...

El narcótico perfecto Una pastilla negra mortal cruza fronteras a toda velocidad y va directo al corazón de personas sanas. En las relucientes naves de producción de Calero Pharmaceuticals en Monterrey, México, un analgésico revolucionario sale de la línea de fabricación: negro brillante, con una llama grabada, con el nombre en clave Fire. Comercializado como Trilief ER, ha sido diseñado para combatir el dolor crónico con una fórmula de tres componentes que promete menos efectos secundarios que los opioides tradicionales. Inversionistas de Panamá, las Islas Caimán y Europa han ...

They didn’t erase the crime. They erased the regret. When The Remorse Act passed, the country celebrated a miracle: a legal, clinical procedure that could remove guilt from the mind. No more shame spirals. No more nightmares. No more remorse. For investigative journalist Claire Rowan, it always sounded like a lie—until her brother dies shortly after treatment, leaving behind a receipt he never meant anyone to see. Claire’s search for answers drags her into a world of sealed records, sanitized clinics, and a powerful coalition determined to keep the truth buried. Because the procedure ...

Brilliant diagnostician and renowned physician Dr. Sanjay Patel once dreamed of being a doctor at a free clinic, serving those in need. Now he treats billionaires by private jet and gets paid in Gucci totes packed with cash. But when his estranged mentor, Dr. Tom Carpenter, scribbles “Page Dr. Sanjay” on a blank prescription moments before collapsing from a fatal stroke, Sanjay is pulled back to the hospital that nearly ended his medical career, Boston’s Mount Beacon Hospital.

Some monsters are made in laboratories. Some are standing right beside you. FBI Agent Gabi Longoria thought she knew every danger of living in a world filled with superhumans. But nothing prepared her for the terror growing inside her own home. Her partner—and the man she loves—Ian Armory, is losing control, plagued by violent blackouts and terrifying changes he can’t explain. Each episode leaves him less himself, more something else: stronger, wilder, and increasingly unpredictable. Ian believes he could soon become a threat to everyone around him—including Gabi. Desperate for ...

Maggie Chen spent twenty-three years as a federal prosecutor putting criminals behind bars. Now, at 72, she's about to become one. When Cascade Capital Partners—a ruthless private equity firm—acquires her retirement community, Maggie uncovers the truth hidden in the fine print: Cascade doesn't renovate facilities. They destroy them. Strip assets. Gut staff. Displace residents. It's a pattern they've executed across 27 nursing homes, and Sunhaven Estates is next. But Maggie isn't going down without a fight. She recruits five fellow residents, each with a particular set of skills: Frank ...

When the storm hit, the system failed. But some people are born to show up anyway. Former combat medic Sam Jenkins thought he’d buried his past, along with the family he couldn’t save. But when Hurricane Helene tears through the mountains of North Carolina, he finds himself standing guard at a powerless rural clinic, haunted by ghosts and running on duty alone. Then Jen Hayes, a no-nonsense midwife with grit and grace, bursts through the door carrying a laboring mother and a storm-shattered mission. Together, in the flicker of failing lights and howling wind, they deliver more than a ...

In a city where appearances sustain power, what shortens a life is not always what ends it. London, 1668. The theaters have reopened. The King laughs. The city applauds. And two men are dead. When a celebrated actor collapses mid-performance at the Theatre Royal, the death is dismissed as mischance—until another follows with disturbing similarity. Summoned quietly to examine the pattern, physician Étienne Moreau finds something far more dangerous than poison alone: repetition. The source lies not in a single vial, but in a culture of performance. Apothecary Margaret Hale confirms what ...

Kriminal- und Forensikpsychologin Dr. Autumn Trent hat ihren Koffer noch nicht ausgepackt, da soll sie schon das FBI bei einem neuen Fall unterstützen. Diesmal reist sie mit ihrem Team nach Norden, wo ein Spinnennetz aus Täuschung und Mord gewoben wird. An der Ostküste werden wohlhabende Witwer zur leichten Beute einer Gruppe von Schwarzen Witwen, die sich an ihren saftigen Bankkonten laben. Doch in Passavant Hills, Pennsylvania, haben sie es nicht nur auf Geld abgesehen. Hier stehen auch Demütigung, Rache und Menschenblut auf ihrer Speisekarte.

Creía que nuestro matrimonio era perfecto. Mientras nuestros hijos duermen tranquilos en la habitación de al lado, leo los mensajes que Rob, mi marido, ha intercambiado con otra mujer. Sus promesas de escaparse juntos me llenan los ojos de lágrimas. Piensan que pueden deshacerse de mí así como así. Que pueden destrozar la vida que hemos construido juntos. Rob no sabe que yo he descubierto sus secretos y que ahora sé lo necesario para destruirlo. Puedo seguir interpretando a la esposa perfecta un poco más. Haré lo que sea para proteger mi vida y a mis hijos.

THE SIGNAL IS IN THE AIR. THE SCRIPT IS IN YOUR BLOOD. In the sweltering rot of the Florida Panhandle, language is no longer a tool for communication; it’s a virus. Cal Mercer is a man who audits ghosts. A former military linguist, he sees the world through "Field Script," a shorthand for the intercepted nightmares of his past. He thought he’d left the Agency and its mind-bending Project MIRRORFALL in the desert. He was wrong. When a local girl is found dead in a canal, her skin carved with disciplined, linear codes, the "Artificial North" begins to tug at the scar tissue in Cal’s ...

The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more different from Susan’s dreams of an affluent existence as the wife of Robert Knox, one of the foremost anatomists of the day. But as people begin disappearing, these two very different women face an impossible choice. Should they protect what lives they have or tell the truth about what they know?

For warehouse supervisor Mark Jenkins, scoring a reservation at The Gilded Fork was supposed to be the ultimate anniversary gift. It Is the city’s most exclusive dining experience—a place of velvet banquettes, crystal chandeliers, and a waitlist a year long. But beneath the culinary mystery lies a secret far darker than a ruined meal.

Una doctora. Una paciente. Una terrible mentira. Años después descubrí que no podía tener hijos y ahora trabajo en una clínica de fertilidad, ayudando a otras parejas a conseguir lo que yo nunca podré tener. Es así como él vuelve a mi vida: acude con su mujer como pacientes a la clínica en la que trabajo, desesperados por ser padres. ¿Los ayudo a concebir, a pesar del riesgo que supondría? Tengo que tomar una decisión que podría destruirnos… o ayudarnos a todos. Mi ex cree que conoce mis secretos. Pero no sabe hasta dónde estoy dispuesta a llegar para conseguir lo que siempre he querido.

Fin février 2020, lors de fouilles dans le gouffre de Legarrea en Navarre, Nash Elizondo, psychologue médico-légale, et son équipe de chercheurs découvrent à cinquante mètres de profondeur une dépouille de brebis, une guirlande de minuscules roses desséchées et le corps d’une jeune fille : Andrea Dancur, portée disparue depuis trois ans. Parmi ses proches, chacun a quelque chose à cacher, et la silhouette menaçante du grand-père fait obstacle aux confidences.