Part character study, part medical mystery, part legal drama, Always Hope by Heather Frimmer is a difficult novel to classify. In it, three flawed people are brought together by the birth of a child gone wrong. Kendall Carlson’s uneventful pregnancy turns into a harrowing delivery...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

Walls of Age by Clark Templeton is a riveting medical thriller that takes us to a region divided into the Elite and Commons Districts. Nate Walkins is a scientist working for an Institute in the Commons District on a cure for an aging virus. The...

Taimour AlNeimat’s The High Glucose Diet follows Dana Lyle, a writer who turns private exhaustion after a low-carbohydrate experiment into a public defense of the one nutritional villain nobody wants to rescue. Glucose becomes the subject, first as a question in a black notebook, then...

In Chuck Morgan’s The Glass Man Protocol, Dr. Claire Rousseau, a former Boston neurosurgeon, now treats ordinary patients in Silver Creek, a mountain town where she hopes her past will stay quiet. When Mayor Halloway collapses at the Winter Festival, Claire recognizes a neurological attack...

In A.B. Acharya’s Red Sky, after losing academic recognition for his research into DMTA, neuroscientist Narin Roy travels from Chicago to St. Louis, hoping to rebuild his career through a pharmaceutical company called Harvester. There, he becomes involved with Ian Blair, a corporate attorney connected...

It is the summer of 1905. Owen Townsend, a young Ivy League-educated doctor related to a prominent family in New York City, is at a park with his fiancée, Maude, when he has a psychotic episode, wreaks havoc, and blacks out. Having recently been discharged...

Patient Zero by Dr. Emil Šabanović follows the stories of five patients as they navigate their struggles with the help of their therapists. A twenty-two-year-old woman suffering from DPDR slowly starts to overcome her dissociation with reality after some therapy sessions. Intrusive, violent thoughts plague a...

Dr. Sophia Mendez and Dr. Jolie Harding were working on a vaccine when their funding was cut just before the outbreak of COVID-19. Author D.K. Rivers takes up their story in Remnavax. The London hospitals are overwhelmed with cases. Patients are dying, there is a...

Daiyu had traveled a long way from China to the US for one reason: vengeance. Born in 1976, her parents were murdered when she was young by a figure she only knew as the Golden Mirror, the leader of the Zufu triad. It takes years,...