Here is a list of medical thriller authors who have written suspenseful, chilling and engrossing novels that keep at the edge of your seat all the time.
This genre is very popular with book readers, and with good reason. There is not one person who didn’t have to visit the hospital at least once in their lives. And hospitals, doctors, needles, pills and dire diagnosis are a regular – albeit an uncomfortable and painful – part of everyone’s life. We all associate fear, dread and other negative emotions with lack of health, which let’s face it, make for a great attraction when it comes to reading about them in book, unlike when these happen to us.
It’s similar to everyone dreading to have a car accident happen to them, but almost everyone lingering around when witnessing one on the road.
I love medical thrillers and thankfully the genre is full with talented authors who know how to hook us on their stories, book after book.
The medical thriller authors listed here will also include books featuring medical examiners and forensic pathologists (e.g. books by Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell). Some authors have written books and series in several genres over the years. In such cases I will add the authors to each of the genre listed on Mystery Sequels.
The authors whose names are not yet linked to their respective pages will be added as soon as the author pages have been created.
Authors are added in alphabetical order based on their last name. If you have read books by a medical thriller author not listed here, let us know in the comments section to add them here.
- David McBride trilogy
- standalone medical thrillers
John Case
- standalone medical thrillers
- Dr. Earl Garnet series
- Dr. Richard Steele series
Tom Combs
- standalone medical thriller
- Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series
- standalone medical thrillers
- Kay Scarpetta series
- Andy Brazil series
- Win Garano series
Michael Crichton
- standalone medical thrillers
- Rizzoli & Isles series
Lawrence W. Gold
- Brier Hospital series
- standalone medical thrillers
Leonard Goldberg
- Joanna Blalock series
- Dr. David Ballineau and Carolyn Ross series
Thomas Hoover
- standalone medical thrillers
Gwen Hunter
- Dr. Rhea Lynch series
Daniel Kalla
- Dr. Noah Haldane series
Bette Golden Lamb
- Gina Mazzio RN series
- Alexandra Destephano series
CJ Lyons
- Hart and Drake series
- Angels of Mercy series
Richard L. Mabry
- Prescription for Trouble series
Stephen Martino
- standalone medical thriller
Ken McClure
- Dr Steven Dunbar series
Victor Methos
- The Plague trilogy
Pierre Ouellette
standalone medical thriller
Michael Palmer
- Dr. Lou Welcome series
- standalone medical thrillers
Richard Preston
- standalone medical thrillers
- non-fiction medical thrillers
Roger Radford
- standalone medical thrillers
- Temperance Brennan series
- Virals – Tory Brennan series
Joshua Spanogle
- Nathaniel McCormick series
- Rulers Of Darkness series
- standalone medical thrillers
Christopher Stookey
- standalone medical thrillers
Michael Weisberg
- standalone medical thriller
- Adversary Cycle series
- Repairman Jack series
- standalone medical thrillers
Hi, thanks so very much for including me on this page. What do you mean, when the author page is creased?
My best wishes,
Judith Lucci
Thanks for noticing the spelling error – I meant ‘created’ 🙂