9 Macabre Medical Mystery Books

Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons

In this chilling aesculapian thriller, surgeon Steve Mitchell’s beingness is turned upside-down erstwhile helium botches a country and his diligent dies. Already facing imaginable career-ending questions, Mitchell’s information is threatened further erstwhile it becomes wide that the decease was nary accident; that idiosyncratic successful the infirmary is deliberately sidesplitting patients and mounting Steve up to instrumentality the fall.

A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang

Set against the inheritance of the flu epidemic that deed conscionable aft the extremity of the First World War, A Beautiful Poison follows Allene, a young socialite who starts to fishy that immoderate of the deaths of radical she knows cannot beryllium blamed connected the virus. Believing that a poisoner is astatine work, Allene starts to investigate, on with aesculapian examiner Jasper and her adjacent person Birdie.

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The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

Part of Cornwell’s highly-acclaimed Scarpetta series, The Body Farm sees main aesculapian examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta investigating the execution of a young girl. Reaching dormant extremity aft dormant end, Scarpetta turns to the titular Body Farm, a celebrated forensic institute wherever experts tin survey corpses successful assorted states of decomposition.

Under the Knife by Tess Gerritsen

Attorney David Ransom believes he’s been hired for a straightforward aesculapian malpractice case, readying to instrumentality a doc down for negligently causing the decease of her patient. However, erstwhile helium meets Dr. Kate Chesne, she tells him that she’s being framed — and erstwhile different assemblage turns up, Ransom becomes much inclined to judge her.

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart

The debut caller by the co-host of deed existent transgression podcast Morbid, The Butcher and the Wren draws connected Urquhart’s ain experiences arsenic an autopsy technician. Forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is investigating a serial slayer who carries retired aesculapian experiments connected his victims, desperately searching for clues arsenic the slayer closes successful connected her.

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Nurse Korede is utilized to cleaning up the messes near by her young, beauteous sister Ayoola, who has an unfortunate wont of sidesplitting her boyfriends. While Ayoola insists she ever acts successful self-defense, Korede is acold from convinced; but she loves her sister, and would ne'er crook her in. But erstwhile Ayoola starts dating Korede’s long-time crush, a doc astatine the infirmary wherever she works, Korede indispensable determine who she volition save.

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

After the decease of her beloved grandmother, Lena Johnson, successful an effort to assistance wage disconnected her family’s aesculapian debts, takes a occupation astatine the distant Lakewood successful Michigan. Lena’s caller occupation is highly paid and, astatine first, seemingly low-stress — each she has to bash is instrumentality portion successful immoderate aesculapian experiments. Drawing connected the real-world horrors of the medicalised torture of Black Americans, Lakewood is simply a chilling aesculapian thriller.

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

If you similar a supernatural twist with your aesculapian mystery, Strange Practice is the publication for you. Dr. Greta Helsing runs a aesculapian institute for vampires, werewolves, and different mythical creatures. Her beingness of happily treating her patients is disrupted erstwhile a cult of murderous monks starts sidesplitting the supernatural creatures that Helsing works with, and she indispensable halt them earlier it’s excessively late.

The Patient by Jane Shemilt

This suspenseful thriller centres connected Rachel, a palmy and well-established GP, who finds herself crossing ethical and ineligible boundaries arsenic she starts an matter with her caller patient, Luc. As Rachel’s beingness begins to spiral retired of control, with her household falling isolated and different diligent perchance stalking her, she feels that things can’t get worse — and past 1 of her colleagues is murdered.