Medical Mysteries Fiction

It’s a typical night in the emergency department. Patients are streaming in, and the waiting room is packed. People are irritated. Staff has been pushed to their limits. To top it off, there’s some kind of commotion in the corner that involves both hospital security and the police. And Brayan, a seasoned nurse, is forced to deal with it all. On this particular night, he has had more than his fair share of stress. So much so that it has given him a pounding headache and a stabbing pain in his gut.

Brander, security chief of the Syrtis Base on Mars, has been forced to invoke Emergency Directive SB-17-5Z. Two men have died, victims of an unknown alien disease. The entire base is now isolated. No one can enter or leave under any circumstances. Dr. John Naysmith, newly arrived on Mars, is leading a small medical team in a desperate attempt to isolate the virus and discover a serum to combat it. But if the disease continues to spread and gets out of control, then Brander will have no alternative but to annihilate the base and everyone in it with nuclear bombs!

The Sherlockian Canon, as prolific as it is, contains few accounts in which Mr. Holmes and his medical colleagues Doctors Watson and Verner solve cases involving frightening medical conditions. It strikes me that many more such cases were successfully solved by Mr. Holmes and his associates. It is unlikely that Doctors Watson and Verner would allow such mysteries remain unsolved.

Bullet to the Brain is a Felix Hoenniker medical murder mystery. A short story at the intersection of a murder most foul, a drug dealer grappling with quantum entanglement, and a neurosurgeon who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes. Throw in an angry girlfriend and a genius scientist who disco dances in stiletto heels, and you’re in for a wild ride.

Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city - until a deadly epidemic threatens to destroy everyone she loves.

Set in America's New Wild West, this medical thriller features Kit Carson, a single mom nurse, who joins the Vigilantes for Healthcare Justice to fight against armed crazies, a crooked sheriff, and the greed of the corporate hospital. Drama and trauma on the night shift in five episodes. In the vein of Samuel Shem's The House of God and B.P. Reiter's The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, Collison writes a medical thriller from a nurse's point of view, with gun locked & loaded and tongue firmly in cheek.

When a deadly drug floods the streets of Staten Island, one of Felix’s patients falls victim. The only woman with the skills to design a drug like that had sworn she’d given up the life. Felix needs know for sure. The trail to find her runs through a New York where taverns vanish, shoe salesmen ignore what you want and give you what you need, nightclubs take only bullion and refrigerator doors open into other worlds.

Returning to the United States to finish up her Field Training Epidemiology Program at the CDC, Camille Carter gets a part time job helping her mentor and professor, Dr. Anderson. At first, Camille likes the attention that Dr. Anderson gives her, but soon she is drawn into a mystery that has her doubting her relationships and those that she holds in the highest of esteem.

Stay out of trouble, they said. Lay low until things blow over, they suggested. Sound advice for Senior Medical Examiner Dr. Beckett Campbell, considering he was found hovering over the body of accused serial killer Craig Sloan, a bloody rock in his hand. Sound advice, all of it. Problem is even a vacation in the Virgin Gorda isn't far enough for Beckett to escape his demons. It doesn't help that there's something strange happening on the island, something that has to do with bitter drinks and bikinis.

Alan just watched his beautiful girlfriend die from testing an unstable drug. It looks like this drug is still in the process of being released by a renegade doctor, so Alan teams up with an old friend, Ryan, to stop the dangers of the drug from hurting other people. Alan's journey leads him to some new discoveries and some decisions that may leave him in need of a cure himself. When Alan and Ryan team up with an unlikely ally, how far will they go to protect people from this dangerous drug? What more dangers are they going to uncover?

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection The Edinburgh Mystery. This short story features Clouston’s most popular private detective F.T. Carrington. A series of mysterious burglaries in Scotland’s Kinbuckie proves more of a challenge for the shrewd investigator than he thinks....

In the story that started it all, Holmes and Watson meet for the first time and Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard asks the world's first consulting detective to assist in the investigation of a bizarre poisoning case.

A fallen medical researcher becomes obsessed with a single question: Do the dead think? Another creepy tale of the bloody scalpel!