Promoted to his elite Boston teaching hospital's Chief Resident, Dr. Noah Rothauser investigates a series of anesthesia errors that are killing patients and raising serious concerns about a resident who has created multiple personalities of herself on the internet.

Colleagues-turned-spouses Doctor Laurie Montgomery and Doctor Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend Dr. Sue Passero dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, which falls squarely under Laurie's purview as newly-appointed Chief Medical Examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with...

When a pathology resident ends up on her table days after helping with a suicide autopsy, NYC chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery discovers his death is a staged homicide and launches her own investigation which leads her to a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company—and possibly her own death.

With her son’s cancer in remission, NYC medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work—and finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzle in this compelling mystery by the bestselling “master of the medical thriller.” (The New York Times)
The investigation into the shocking death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge for Dr. Laurie Montgomery, and it has her colleagues...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword.

“You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The...

After her husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a respected researcher, denies that chronic Lyme disease exists, Janessa is infected with Lyme disease by a man who has lost everything to the disease, and who threatens to infect her daughter next if her husband will not change his stance.

An award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again by embarking on a 15,000-mile road trip across the country, forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering who had written to her during her time in the hospital.

When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, possibly the most terrifying situation they have encountered.

Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.