Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Medical
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$12,538
The median book price
$6.49
Bestseller's daily sales
3,158
50th book's daily sales
11
Average number of pages per book
340
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
Volatility
New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > thrillers > suspense
61.24%
fiction > thrillers > medical
40.82%
fiction > romance > suspense
40.82%
fiction > christian > suspense
40.82%
Keyword requirement
thriller, mystery, suspense, medical, doctor, nurse, hospital
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 6 words:
- Harmful Intent (A Medical Thriller)
- Never Lie: An addictive psychological thriller
- Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller
- The Bone Bed: Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 20
- Suicide Med: A gripping psychological thriller
- Indie success
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25%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
95%
10.53%
56.67%
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Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Harmful Intent (A Medical Thriller) | Robin Cook | Self published | N/A | $139 | $4.99 | 758 | |
2 | Never Lie: An addictive psychological thriller | Freida McFadden | Hollywood Upstairs Press | 4 | $352,811 | $3.99 | 146,587 | |
3 | Never Lie | Freida McFadden | Hollywood Upstairs Press | 97 | $257,622 | $18.55 | 146,586 | |
4 | Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller | Freida McFadden | Hollywood Upstairs Press | 99 | $54,854 | $3.99 | 68,306 | |
5 | Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller | Freida McFadden | Self published | 342 | $69,305 | $11.20 | 68,306 | |
6 | The Bone Bed: Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 20 | Patricia Cornwell | Recorded Books | 688 | $22,312 | $6.99 | 12,407 | |
7 | Ward D | Freida McFadden | Hollywood Upstairs Press | 715 | $52,920 | $17.50 | 68,306 | |
8 | Brain Damage | Freida McFadden | Podium Audio | 1,065 | $68,929 | $29.66 | 34,805 | |
9 | Suicide Med | Freida McFadden | Podium Audio | 1,170 | $65,607 | $29.66 | 19,533 | |
10 | Suicide Med: A gripping psychological thriller | Freida McFadden | Hollywood Upstairs Publishing | 1,229 | $8,602 | $3.99 | 19,533 | |
11 | The Surgeon: An utterly unputdownable and pulse-pounding psychological thriller packed with twists | Leslie Wolfe | Bookouture | 1,502 | $7,708 | $3.99 | 25,447 | |
12 | Brain Damage | Freida McFadden | Self published | 2,126 | $15,939 | $10.35 | 34,805 | |
13 | Winter's Rise (Winter Black FBI Mystery Series Book 4) | Mary Stone | Mary Stone Publishing | 2,296 | $5,809 | $3.99 | 13,483 | |
14 | Suicide Med | Freida McFadden | Self published | 2,612 | $17,375 | $13.49 | 19,533 | |
15 | Arms of Grace: Arms of Grace Book I (A Medical Thriller) | Eleanor Chance | Darlington Publishing; 2nd edition | 3,436 | $5,870 | $5.99 | 738 |
Harmful Intent (A Medical Thriller)
Robin Cook
Never Lie: An addictive psychological thriller
Freida McFadden
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance. Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth. Read more
Never Lie
Freida McFadden
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels. And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth. Read more
Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller
Freida McFadden
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.And now she might never escape. Read more
Ward D: A gripping psychological thriller
Freida McFadden
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.And now she might never escape. Read more
The Bone Bed: Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 20
Patricia Cornwell
From one of the world’s number top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel.A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why.But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age.When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel. Read more
Ward D
Freida McFadden
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D. And now she might never escape. Read more
Brain Damage
Freida McFadden
After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all:A prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check.Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check.Handsome lawyer husband? Double check.Then, one night a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything.As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started. Read more
Suicide Med
Freida McFadden
“I don’t want to die like this. Not here, not now—in the anatomy lab on a Saturday night. I know I’ve done some bad things in my life, but I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve this…”One suicide. Every year.Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble.The pressure is intense. People crack.Thank goodness for Dr. Conlon, her quirky but beloved anatomy professor. He’ll do anything to help his students succeed. But is it a coincidence that the bespectacled professor joined the staff the same year the suicides began? Or are they suicides at all?All Heather knows is that one student will die this year. And that student could be her. Read more
Suicide Med: A gripping psychological thriller
Freida McFadden
“I don’t want to die like this. Not here, not now—in the anatomy lab on a Saturday night. I know I’ve done some bad things in my life, but I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve this…”One suicide. Every year.Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med.Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble.The pressure is intense. People crack.Thank goodness for Dr. Conlon, her quirky but beloved anatomy professor. He’ll do anything to help his students succeed. But is it a coincidence that the bespectacled professor joined the staff the same year the suicides began?Or are they suicides at all?All Heather knows is that one student will die this year.And that student could be her.Why readers are totally gripped by this unputdownable psychological thriller, Suicide Med, by bestselling author Freida McFadden:"What a gripping read! Fasten your seat belt for the twists and turns." --Amazon review"I love it! It is exactly a moment when I give away my Netflix account and devote an hour a day to enjoy a story." --Goodreads review"This book delivered thrills and a surprising depth of emotion. Totally recommended--and I can't wait to check out the author's other books!" --Amazon review"I LOVED this book. I would give it 6 or 10 stars if I could. I didn't want it to end!" --Goodreads review Read more
Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer?Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe.As I call time of death, my voice is steady. My colleagues stand hushed around me, their eyes on me, confused, concerned.I have never lost a patient until today.My hands tremble inside their gloves. I slide down the cold tiled walls, my heart racing in my chest.I have never hated a patient until today.But what choice did I have, once I recognized him?And what will I do to protect myself, if someone learns the truth?A Kindle no.1 and Amazon charts bestseller, The Surgeon is a totally gripping psychological thriller that will have you racing through the pages, gasping for breath until the final jaw-dropping twist. If you love Freida McFadden, Shari Lapena and The Girl on the Train, you won’t be able to put this down.See what readers are saying about The Surgeon:“Wow!!!… absolutely page-turning psychological thriller!!!!… will shock you over and over again!!… absolutely addictive.” Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I was clinging to it word for word!… suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, betrayal, and some crazy twists and turns!… kept me glued to my Kindle!… Definitely don’t miss out on this one!” NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“As I write this review, I'm secretly giggling and giddy! I have never read such a fantastic thriller in my life!!!! I was constantly in suspense, holding my breath, and keeping an eye on my page count because I absolutely could not wait to see how the book ended!!!!… If I could, this book would be 10 stars!” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“A riveting, fast-paced thriller…. hooks you from the start, taking you on a wild and twisted journey… I was able to read this one in like 9 hours because I refused to do anything else!… incredibly suspenseful, absolutely addictive page-turner by this amazing author!” @rubie_reads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“What a suspenseful read!… my heart is racing!… from cover to cover, I was hooked. I devoured The Surgeon in less than 2 days!… absolutely perfect!” NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I love Wolfe’s plot twists. She’s a master of them… I always give 5 stars to an author who can trip me up… Wolfe gets all the stars for getting me MORE THAN ONCE!… I could go on and on and on about what I loved about this.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Completely gripping and intense!… jaw-dropping twists, and a blow you away ending make this one you can't miss.” NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I was hooked right from the beginning; I started and finished it in less than 24 hours! The suspense was constant and the twists were endless!… The ending left me in shock!” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Omg… had me thinking about the ending for two days afterwards!!… a twist that I did NOT see coming!” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“You will not get any sleep until you finish this book… The twists were mind blowing… will leave your heart in your mouth. The anticipation of waiting on the next shoe to drop will leave you glued to the pages of this book until you see the words ‘The End’.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“YES!! YES!! YES!!… I was hooked and needed to know more!… Hooked me instantly… Mind-blowing.” Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Had me hooked from the BEGINNING!!! The twist literally had my jaw in the floor… impossible to put down.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read more
Brain Damage
Freida McFadden
"I couldn't put it down!" --Readers' FavoriteAfter years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all. Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband? Double check.Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything.As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her... before he finishes the job he started. Read more
The cure is to kill...For more than thirteen years, Special Agent Winter Black has believed her little brother was dead—kidnapped and murdered by The Preacher, the same lunatic who killed her parents. A lead into Justin’s whereabouts brings her out of her hiatus to chase it, but other cases need her attention too.At the FBI, tensions are high when a body is dug up, encased in a fifty-five-gallon drum. The team soon realizes they aren’t hunting the typical serial killer, but a skilled surgeon. One who experiments on atypical brains—brains just like her new friend’s; brains just like her own—then disposes of their patients like they would a defective organ.In the mix, Winter’s childhood psychiatrist surfaces—the only medical professional who knows about her abilities, or so she thinks.Could the murders be connected?Time is running out, because now, the killer is after Winter’s friend. And after her.Book four of Mary Stone’s throat-clutching Winter Black Series, Winter’s Rise proves that evil doesn’t just hide in the dark.Scroll up to one-click your copy today! Read more
Suicide Med
Freida McFadden
“I don’t want to die like this. Not here, not now—in the anatomy lab on a Saturday night. I know I’ve done some bad things in my life, but I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve this…”Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med.One suicide. Every year.Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her. But after Heather’s longtime boyfriend dumps her and she finds herself failing anatomy, her world starts to crumble.The pressure is intense. People crack.Thank goodness for Dr. Conlon, her quirky but beloved anatomy professor. He’ll do anything to help his students succeed. But is it a coincidence that the bespectacled professor joined the staff the same year the suicides began?Or are they suicides at all?All Heather knows is that one student will die this year.And that student could be her.Why readers are totally gripped by this unputdownable psychological thriller, Suicide Med, by bestselling author Freida McFadden:"What a gripping read! Fasten your seat belt for the twists and turns." --Amazon review"I love it! It is exactly a moment when I give away my Netflix account and devote an hour a day to enjoy a story." --Goodreads review"This book delivered thrills and a surprising depth of emotion. Totally recommended--and I can't wait to check out the author's other books!" --Amazon review"I LOVED this book. I would give it 6 or 10 stars if I could. I didn't want it to end!" --Goodreads review Read more
Arms of Grace: Arms of Grace Book I (A Medical Thriller)
Eleanor Chance
A mysterious abandoned baby.A lonely, troubled nurse.What will she risk to save him?The thrilling first book in the award-winning ARMS OF GRACE series!Grace Ward’s sterile existence is thrown into chaos when a baby is abandoned in her ER. From the instant a strange woman thrusts the infant into her arms and disappears, Grace's life is transformed.She names the baby Johnny. His identity is shrouded in secrecy, and even with a trained staff treating him, his life hangs in the balance. As Grace grows more devoted to him, major events threaten their bond and his life. A deadly infection sweeps through the hospital, Johnny's mysterious origins affect his future, and Grace's personal life grows increasingly complex. When Johnny's prognosis creates an ideological chasm that leaves the hospital staff on opposing sides, Grace refuses to bow to the mounting pressure that could destroy her career and even her life. Her vow to rescue Johnny is the beginning of a journey to heal the scars of her past and create the bright future they both deserve. What will Grace risk to keep that promise?Arms of Grace is a finalist in consideration for production by Wind Dancer Films, a silver medalist in the Readers' Favorites International Awards, and a recipient of the B.R.A.G. Medallion."Eleanor Chance's novel is a great success at multiple levels...The plot is well-paced, and it is constructed to keep the reader turning pages nonstop. Arms of Grace is intelligently written, a story that inspires and entertains. It's a must-read!" - Reader's Favorite"Great story with a strong plot and many challenges to the main character kept me predicting and reading. Could be the start of a great series, a mom's story about raising a special needs child. Loved it!" - B.R.A.G. Medallion Read more
Sinful Summer (A Mayet Justice Book Book 12)
Emilia Finn
Summer has arrived, and the honeymoon I’ve been scheming over for months is finally here. I’ve been married to the workaholic, medical examiner, Minka Mayet for nearly half a year already. But it took a lost bet and a metric ton of coercion to get her out of her cold office and into a bikini on the deck of a multi-million-dollar boat.Time well spent, if you ask me. But we wouldn’t be who we are—me, a homicide cop, and her, a doctor for the dead—if death didn’t follow us across the country.I’ve placed my wife on a no-work, no-phone ban. All for her own health and well-being. And partially for my own gluttonous desires.But a dead body has turned up, and poison is the weapon of choice.Minka is determined to help.And I… well, I’m determined to keep her naked, sated, and relaxing.A bet got us here.Perhaps it’s time to make another to keep her focus squarely on me.Sinful Summer is the 12th novel in Emilia Finn's Mayet Justice series and can be read as a standalone. Read more
The Body Farm: Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 5
Patricia Cornwell
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial killer who has long eluded the FBI. But as she tries to make sense of the evidence, she is left with questions that lead her to the Body Farm, a little known research facility in Tennessee where, with the help of some grisly experiments, she might discover the answer.It is Scarpetta alone who can interpret the forensic hieroglyphics that eventually reveal a solution to the case as staggering as it is horrifying. But she must also endeavor to help her niece, Lucy, who is embroiled in controversy at Quantico. And Scarpetta, too, is vulnerable, as she opens herself to the first physical and emotional bond she has felt in far too long a time. Tenacious and brilliant, tender and gentle, this is Scarpetta even more realized and poignant than we’ve seen her before—in a stunning achievement from a bestselling author at the peak of her powers. Read more
The Locked Door
Freida McFadden
Some doors are locked for a reason....While 11-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not a killer like her father. The police can't pin anything on her.As long as they don't look in her basement. Read more
Stone Virus: A Viral Disaster
Jacqueline Druga
When the outbreak comes to a head, Laney is away from home. Chasing her dream of being the winner of a baking reality show, she is sequestered like a juror. No phone, no internet, no knowledge of what is happening.When the show evacuates all of the contestants, somehow Laney is left behind. Shut off from communication when the city loses power, Laney is clueless about what is happening and lacks the knowledge of the virus she is facing. Those infected experience a violent fever rage before the virus ultimately consumes them and takes their lives.She’s far from brave and searches for someone to help her. Carrying a backpack with some supplies and very little survival know-how, Laney has a choice. She can wait it out until all infected die or try to make it home to her family. However, meeting the young girl Nika, changes how Laney must view and navigate her journey. Her weaknesses need to become strength.The journey becomes more than just getting home. Read more
'A perfect detective for our time' Stephen Fry No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses. Can DS Cross prove it was murder?THE DETECTIVEDS George Cross doesn't rely on guesswork and he has no time for false assumptions. He is a detective who goes off the evidence in front of him, not 'hunches' or 'gut feelings'. He does not know what these are.THE CLOSED CASEWhen a young woman is found dead, the Bristol Crime Unit is quick to rule it a suicide as the woman had a long history of drug abuse. But her mother is convinced it was murder, saying that her daughter had been clean for years and had been making strides in a new therapy programme.THE ANSWERAs an outsider himself, DS Cross is drawn to cases involving the voiceless and dispossessed and, here, the evidence states that this woman was murdered – Cross just has to prove it. But under pressure from his boss to shut down the case, and with numerous potential suspects, time is rapidly running out to get the answers that this grieving family deserve.Perfect for fans of M.W. Craven, Peter James and Joy Ellis, The Patient is part of the DS George Cross thriller series, which can be read in any order.ALSO IN THE DS CROSS THRILLER SERIES#1 THE DENTIST#2 THE CYCLIST#3 THE PATIENT#4 THE POLITICIAN#5 THE MONK#6 THE TEACHER#7 COMING SOON...CROSS CHRONICLE SHORT STORIESTHE LOST BOYSTHE EX-WIFE'In DS George Cross, Tim Sullivan has created a character who is as endearing as any I've ever come across in this genre. His quirks are his gift, and with Sullivan's tremendous plotting and superb writing, this series is a gift to readers.' Liz NugentWhy readers love George Cross . . .'A clever mystery full of tension but also humour and compassion. George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.' Elly Griffiths'A British detective for the 21st century who will be hard to forget' Daily Mail 'A compelling, suspenseful police procedural with an intimate, positive insight into living on the autistic spectrum' Woman 'Truly wonderful . . . well-developed characters and an absolute star in George Cross!' Reader Review 'An entirely different type of detective in DS Cross' Reader Review Read more