The Goldilocks Genome by Elizabeth Reed Aden is the most exceptional medical thriller I've ever read. It starts with Wendy von Gelden's suicide. Wendy was diagnosed with major depression, and because the treatment she tried didn't work, she took her own life. When her wealthy...

No good deed goes unpunished is the perfect way to describe the theme of The Panacea Project by Catherine Devore Johnson. People had always targeted (or avoided) Calla Hammond due to their biases against her skin condition. Yet, things turned dramatically when the doctors discovered...

Ten Thousand Rocks by Ndirangu Githaiga introduces us to a married couple who had first met when they were in middle school. William Henry Young is a medical doctor and black, and his white wife Laura is a teacher. William, known as Will, has a...

A massive hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas, leaving a hospital and its inhabitants trapped with a deadly virus and no way to escape. In the sensational thriller The Lambda Factor by Dimple P. Desai, MD, we are thrown into action at once. With a category five...

Part mystery, part medical fiction, Truth Unveiled by Stephanie Kreml is an impressive start to the Dr. Samantha Jenkins Mysteries series. It follows the suspicious death of a recovering addict and the search for an elusive killer. Samantha “Sam” Jenkins is dreading taking part in...

The Ego Cluster by Robert Cole is a frightening glimpse into a world teetering on the edge of the abyss created by climate change, and the related social paralysis due to corporate greed and short-sighted political interests. Scientists discover a set of human genes that...

While trying to get his bearings after a vehicular collision, Damien Winters finds himself facing what resembles a giant, eyeless mountain lion launching itself like a lunatic linebacker at him. Think of Leonardo DiCaprio’s bear attack in The Revenant, and you get an idea of...

The Neander Conspiracy by Scot Baddesta is an exciting sci-fi novel. Professor Tyson Moore is bored with his predictable life at Stanford University and needs a short breather. When a video showing his unconventional comments goes viral on campus, Suntech’s offer becomes more and more...

What a fun read for a medical action “thriller”! The Injection by DL Jones and Devante Cresh was anything but what I expected. In fact, it was refreshingly different. Rather than bogging readers down in medical details and jargon, as so many medically-based novels do,...

To Die For: A Lynn Clarke Thriller Book 1 by Ray Ronan is an action-packed medical thriller. It is similar to the Jason Bourne movies but with a twist. This story focuses on the human organ donor business that has recently become a lucrative industry....