Deadly Medicine

2022 WINNER of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense for Deadly Conspiracies!Radiologist Lindsey Moran is about to achieve her goal of becoming a partner at Cascade Park Hospital when her father mysteriously dies in a prison riot shortly before the prison hospital closes and Cascade Park takes over the care of the inmates. She soon learns the three escaped prisoners aren't the only ones wreaking havoc on the city and suspects something is very wrong at the prison. To find the truth, she must first find the courage to confront her past, but someone is determined to stop her and all trails lead her back to the prison. "Laurie Gilbert's extensive experience in the medical field delivers a chillingly believable story. The emotional, action-packed opening sucked me in and kept me reading. The main characters are easy to empathize with and cheer for. A fast-paced thriller with a satisfying, heartwarming ending." --from Cindy Hiday, author of DESTINATION STARDUST and winner of the Kay Snow Award for Fiction. Deadly Medicine Series Book #1Traditional medical thrillers with a what if element...The stories all start in or around Portland, Oregon, where local physicians face challenges they couldn't have anticipated and test their convictions in ways unimagined. Though the stories are chronologically dated, each book stands alone and can be read in any order.

"A wicked prescription guaranteed to give you sleepless nights." ~Nora RobertsSt. Louis Trauma nurse Casey McDonough thinks her life is interesting enough. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of the family home into the Chapel of Eternal Vigilance.Then, things begin to really go wrong when OB/Gyn Dr. Dale Hunsacker arrives. Handsome, wealthy and charismatic, the good doctor is enchanting the patients of the St. Louis hospital. But, Cassy believes he is a serial killer. And the only person who takes her seriously, is Hunsacker himself.Caught in a spiral of suspicion and intimidation, Casey approaches ex-Marine, ex-Jesuit homicide sergeant Jack Scanlan for help. All she has are hunches for proof, but she'll do anything to stop the monster walking the halls of her hospital."Eileen Dreyer creates the sort of skin-crawling suspense that will leave readers looking with a wild and wary eye upon anyone at the other end of a stethoscope." ~Elizabeth GeorgePublisher's Note: As a former trauma nurse, Eileen Dreyer combines her real-world medical knowledge and superb story-telling to bring readers a series of uniquely plotted, spine-tingling, medical mysteries. Fans of Tami Hoag, Elizabeth George, Nora Roberts as well as John Lutz, Michael Crichton and Patricia Cornwell will enjoy these well-crafted medical thrillers.

Trauma Nurse Faces Life and Death Searching for her Lost Sister in City of the Dead, a Medical Thriller from Eileen DreyerForensic Nurse Chastity Byrnes courageously stood up to her father, exposed his secrets, shattered her family, and sent herself into exile. But after a decade of struggle, she's finally found peace, until a sister she hasn't seen or heard from in years disappears, and her sister's husband-a man she's never met-turns to her for help.Old guilt twisting inside her, Chastity leaves for the French Quarter of New Orleans searching for a sister she suspects doesn't want to be found.Aided by fellow Forensic Nurse Karina Boudreaux, and ex-firefighter-turned-cabbie James Guidry, Chastity navigates the diverse culture of New Orleans and her own past, searching for answers.But as the people around her begin mysteriously dying, Chastity discovers she's in the sights of a serial killer.Publisher's Note: No one writes medical thrillers better than former Trauma Nurse, Eileen Dreyer. The story contains profanity consistent with the setting, with no explicit sexual content, and will be enjoyed by fans of medical and psychological thrillers and mysteries.This story was previously published as Sinners and Saints."No one does twisted psychological suspense like Dreyer." ~RT Booklovers

Fantasy Retribution Becomes Harsh Reality in With a Vengeance, a Medical Thriller from Eileen DreyerTrauma nurse and SWAT medic Maggie O'Brien has spent years trying to get out from under the shadow of her father, the most infamous cop in St. Louis. Her SWAT team is now her family, and the Blymire Memorial ER staff her friends.But when people in her care start turning up dead, Maggie fears one of her ER friends is enacting a fantasy retribution by systematically killing patients.Caught dead center between justice and loyalty, dare she betray the people she relies on most? If she doesn't, will she be no better than her father? But if she does, she'll likely be the next victim.Publisher's Note: No one writes medical thrillers better than former Trauma Nurse, Eileen Dreyer. This tight medical thriller contains profanity consistent with the salty speech of cops and bad-guys and contains some explicit sexual content."Turbocharged thriller" ~Kirkus Review"A first-rate, action-packed thriller." ~Midwest Book Review"As with all Eileen Dreyer books, this one is a keeper." ~The Mystery Reader"Fast pacing, thorough research and a swaggering cop..." ~Publisher's Weekly

"Action-packed, thoughtful, suspenseful, sensitive, all at the same time and all the way through." ~Ken Keith, Verified ReviewerTrauma nurse Kate Manion is viewing her own hospital from the other side. Badly injured in an auto accident, she's laying in her own ICU, strapped down, paralyzed and unconscious. And yet, somehow, she managed to kill her nurse.The murder was an accident; Kate swears. But the accidental deaths keep happening. Has someone taken Kate's mishap as a mandate to kill off anyone making life difficult for the staff?As corpses pile up, Kate realizes that only she can stop the serial killer who is acting out the fantasy of every staff member at St. Simon's Hospital.With only a burned-out forensic pathologist to help her, Kate must wade through greed, politics, secrets and suspicion to unearth a murderer she doesn't want to find; before he – or she-strikes too close to home.Publisher's Note: As a former trauma nurse, Eileen Dreyer combines her real-world medical knowledge and superb story-telling to bring readers a series of uniquely plotted, spine-tingling, medical mysteries. Fans of Tami Hoag, Elizabeth George, Nora Roberts as well as John Lutz, Michael Crichton and Patricia Cornwell will enjoy these well-crafted medical thrillers.