Books like Under the Knife by Tess Gerritsen

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.

In Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Thomas Moore race to stop a serial killer who targets lone women with surgical precision, while unveiling a chilling link to a wounded medic with a deadly past.

When a dead body appears in her bedroom, Miranda Wood becomes the prime suspect of a murder she didn’t commit, and must unravel a web of blackmail, corruption, and personal vendetta to clear her name.

Two timelines converge in Boston as a modern investigator and a 19th‑century medical student race to solve a series of murders tied to a buried skull and a kidnapped baby.

"Surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating theater. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery? From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all"--

Betrayal, grief, and vengeance collide in a high‑stakes medical thriller as biotechnology mogul Morgan Finney unleashes a dangerous plot against the surgeon he blames for his wife’s death, using cutting‑edge technology to threaten her life and reputation.

Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles race against time to solve a series of gruesome murders involving a centuries‑old mummy revealed in a CT scan at Pilgrim Hospital.

When a lethal outbreak threatens a small town, a determined woman doctor uncovers that the epidemic was engineered—leaving her to chase a deadly conspiracy that spans a teenage prostitute and her own household.

A surgeon and a detective unravel a body‑transplant conspiracy that kidnaps refugees and sells their organs to the wealthy, only to find the doctor herself targeted.