In the world of fiction, medical fiction has its own place. Readers often like to indulge in stories that show the dark or murky areas of the field of medicine or alternative medicine. It somehow fuels conspiracy theories but is always a good reading snack.
Here are some spicy topselling medical books from Amazon:
1. Into the Ether – Dr. David Sherer
In ‘Into the Ether’, Dr. David Sherer delves into the world of Adrian Wren, an anesthesiologist living and practicing medicine in the suburbs of Washington D.C. One day, when Wren’s patient turns out to be none other than John Silverstone, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, his life takes a spin and then nothing is what it seems.
Soon, Adrian Wren finds himself involved in Project Penrose, a confidential plan hatched by the president to further his motivations regarding a crime committed decades ago.
Medical-financial thriller is the new genre on the rise, and David Sherer’s Into the Ether is a testament to that fact. With an array of amazing characters, prolific writing, and maximum suspense, book reading cannot become better than this. Sherer sure has a command over his skill and he knows how to present the next astounding twist in the story that would leave the reader simply wowed.
2. Lock In– John Scalzi
This novel starts with a typical virus outbreak in the world in which most people experience flu, headaches and fever. But a small part of the infected population experience paralysis in which they are ‘locked in’ their bodies and are unable to move.
But this is only to set the pace of the story. The real story is about Charlie Shane and Leslie Vann, FBI agents assigned to investigate a murder. The murder is linked to ‘Haden’s syndrome’ – the name of the virus. Things get complicated when they find an ‘integrator’ involved – a person who ‘rents’ out locked in bodies.
3. Autopsy: A Scarpetta Novel – Patricia Cornwell
In a post-pandemic world highlighted by social and political unrest, Kay Scarpetta – a forensic pathologist and chief medical examiner – relocates to a new town and finds herself in the mid of a murder investigation.
There is a grave situation in a top-secret private laboratory, and the US Government is concerned, asking Scarpetta to look into it while on the other side, the serial killer is still on the loose and might be marking her next.
4. The Pull of the Stars: A Novel – Emma Donoghue
Set in Ireland in 1918, a war-torn and disease infected country, Julia Power is a nurse who works at a hospital caring for mothers who the contagious flu has infected. Julia meets a rebel doctor Dr. Kathleen Lynn and a young volunteer Bridey Sweeney in the quarantine ward.
Together they spend the three days in the ward trying to save the infected lives while finding new lives for themselves. In a fight between chaos and peace, hope and friendship must make their way back.
5. Genesis – Robin Cook
The best medical fiction book of its time, Genesis, is a story about Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, who will examine the body of a woman allegedly dying of drug overdose.
Together with Dr. Aria Nicholas, she verifies that her suspicions about the cause of the woman’s death are not delusional and there lie darker secrets in the story.
She uses a new technique, however controversial, to use DNA to track people whose records are not available. The murder of a close friend thwarts her investigations, and now she must decide if she should continue the search for truth staring into the eyes of her death.
6. The Bone Code: A Temperance Brennan Novel – Kathy Reichs
Temperance Brennan – referred to as Tempe in the novel – has a murder mystery to solve. Two dead bodies have been reported, wrapped in plastic sheet, decomposing in a medical waste container off the coast of South Carolina.
Meanwhile, a flesh-eating human contagion is spreading across the state, and while Tempe is busy in her investigation, she realizes that the two must be related. Darker secrets unveil, but the cost of knowing the secrets might be as high as the price of her life. She must choose wisely.
7. Pandemic: A Novel – Scott Sigler
From the author of Infected and Contagious, this novel is one of the bestselling medicine books based on a cataclysmic scenario.
The story resumes at the point where Dr. Margaret Montoya, the hero scientist who saved the world from contagion, is now called in again to handle a bigger problem. Somewhere deep under Lake Michigan, a can-sized container holds microorganisms that can infect humans to make them zombies and turn them into cannibals.
The container won’t hold out for long, and decisions must be made quickly to find and destroy the container before it wreaks havoc in the whole world and infects everyone on Earth.
8. Dark Pattern: The Naturalist – Andrew Mayne
Dr. Theo Cray is a mathematician who takes out serial killers with his genius methods. But a mind-changing pathogen gets to him and puts him off the track. His reputation is destroyed, and he has questions about his own sanity. With the assistance of his professor Amanda, he looks to complete his job and catch a serial killer with hundreds of murders on his hands, but his own dark side might come in the way.
