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Donorby Ken McClure
Birlinn 2011; US$ 1.38The first Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller. When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to hospital with acute renal failure, her parents are in despair. Their hope is renewed when Amanda is accepted for treatment in a pioneering, state-of-the-art dialysis unit in an exclusive private hospital in Glasgow, but behind the lavish hospital corridors, private rooms and friendly staff lies something much more sinister. Dr Dunbar goes undercover to find out in the first of Ken McClure's gripping thrillers featuring the ex-Special Forces medic. more...
Wildcardby Ken McClure
Birlinn 2011; US$ 2.77The third Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller. When a traveller dies on a flight back to London from Africa, Ebola virus seems to be the reason. However, other victims in the UK are dying of the same illness and there seems to be no link. As politicians equivocate and scientists attempt to find a cause, Dr Steven Dunbar begins to question his own belief in medicine. more...
Dust to Dustby Ken McClure
Birlinn 2011; US$ 2.77The eighth Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller. John Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University, firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus. He is excited when Oxford University informs him that there might be preserved bodies of Black Death victims hidden under Dryburgh Abbey. Motram launches an excavation but it comes to a disastrous end when he apparently loses his mind after entering the secret tomb. Dr Steven Dunbar is sent to investigate ? fearing that a new killer virus has been let loose. more...
White Deathby Ken McClure
Birlinn 2011; US$ 2.77Provides real chills as a major health conspiracy is uncovered? - The Big Issue 'Chilling and believable? - Big Beat From Badsville The seventh Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller. The Governments of the world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later. Vaccination is the only solution, but designing and producing vaccines has never been harder due to stringent trials, rules and regulations and huge settlements in an increasingly litigious society. There is no such thing as a ?completely safe vaccine? but necessity soon begins to outweigh caution and corners are cut, blind eyes turned and scientists given free rein with the new science of molecular biology. The only outcome can be disaster. more...
Hypocrite's Isleby Ken McClure
Birlinn 2011; US$ 4.16The most frightening thing is that research scientist McClure makes it utterly believable? - The Scotsman Dr Frank Simmons works in the University of Edinburgh?s medical school. One of his PhD students, brilliant loner Gavin, announces his intention to find a cure for cancer and actually makes a major breakthrough. Oddly, no one seems to be interested and a picture emerges of a cancer research industry caught in a desperate paradox: it can only justify its existence by not curing cancer. Disinterest soon turns to open warfare as pressure is put on Simmons and Gavin?s work is sabotaged. A truly compelling story with superb dialogue and thought-provoking ideas. more...
Lethal Practiceby Peter Clement
Belgrave House 1998; US$ 5.00When ER doctor Earl Garnet discovers the hospital's Chief Administrator murdered with a cardiac needle, he immediately becomes one of the suspects. Not every doctor is skilled with a cardiac needle, and Garnet is. Attempting to clear his name by identifying the real killer, Garnet also becomes the next target. And his investigation embroils him in a sinister conspiracy that threatens his whole medical world. Medical Thriller by Peter Clement; originally published by Fawcett more...
Death Roundsby Peter Clement
Belgrave House 1999; US$ 5.00Dr. Earl Garnet encounters a deadly bacteria at University Hospital?one that is killing victims who are in some way connected. A nurse dies horrifically and Dr. Garnet?s own wife is gravely ill. While the surrounding community panics, the staff is quarantined?most likely with the sociopath who has masterminded the super-resistant strain and who promises to infect fifty more people immediately. Medical Thriller by Peter Clement; originally published by Fawcett more...
The Bone Gardenby Tess Gerritsen
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 6.99BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tess Gerritsen's The Silent Girl . Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . . Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall,... more...
Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factorby Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 9.99A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully--each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists is a U.S. government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. When the leading researcher from that lab, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, returns from overseas, he barely survives a series of well-orchestrated attempts made on his life. By the time Smith eludes his pursuers and makes it home, he discovers that the virus has claimed its fourth victim, Dr. Sophia Russell--Smith's fiancee. Devastated and enraged, Smith quickly uncovers evidence that his lover's death was no accident--that someone out there has the virus, and the... more...
A Faint Cold Fearby Karin Slaughter
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 1.99An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "suicides" suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia -- a nightmare that is coming to prey on Sara Linton's loved ones. A small town is being transformed into a killing ground. And the key to a sadistic murderer's motive and identity may be held in the unsteady hands of a campus security guard -- a former police detective driven from the force by the hellish memories that will never leave her. Lena Adams survived the unthinkable and has paid a devastating... more...