Science & Medicine

Archeologists

Kate Ellis, The Funeral Boat. Mystery
A detective who’s an amateur archeologist suspects that a recently unearthed skeleton may be a Viking and discovers a link to a modern-day crime. Part of a series.

Linda Fairstein, The Bone Vault.
A recent corpse found in an ancient sarcophagus leads to an investigation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History.

Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank. Mystery
In 1884, a woman travels to Egypt to indulge in her passion for archeology and encounters grave robbers, a mysterious mummy, and a dashing archeologist. First in a series.

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Relic.
Terror haunts the Museum of Natural History after a mysterious relic arrives from South America.

Nora Roberts, Birthright.
An archeologist investigates the discovery of a Neanderthal settlement at the site of a new housing development.

Biologists

Greg Bear, Darwin’s Radio. Science Fiction
A molecular biologist and a virus hunter discover that a deadly disease has its roots in the origins of humankind.

Michael Crichton, Prey.
A swarm of tiny, bioengineered particles escapes from a Nevada lab an becomes a predator with humans as their prey.

Paul McAuley, The Secret of Life. Science Fiction
When a strange fungus threatens Earth’s food chain, a microbiologist travels to Mars to discover the cause.

Jennifer Vanderbes, Easter Island.
Two women in different time periods go on expeditions to Easter Island that lead to both scientific and personal discover.

Randy Wayne White, Heat Islands. Mystery
Marine biologist Doc Ford is searching for sea anemones when he discovers the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island. Part of a series.

Chemists

Gary Braver, Elixir.
A medicinal chemist for a pharmaceutical company becomes the target of a ruthless manhunt when he discovers a flower that can prolong life.

Camille Minichino, The Beryllium Murder. Mystery
A scientist investigates the suspicious death of a colleague who was poisoned with beryllium.

Geologists & Earth Scientists

Sarah Andrews, Tensleep. Mystery
Geologist Emily Hansen investigates the suspicious deaths of two coworkers at an oil field in Wyoming. First in a series.

Matt Dickinson, Black Ice.
A scientist discovers a shocking secret beneath the Antarctic ice cap but the expedition is threatened when she rescues two explorers.

Jack Du Brul, Deep Fire Rising.
A geologist is caught up in adventure and intrigue when a secret organization claims to have predicted the end of the world. Part of a series.

Clare Dudman, One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead.
A German meteorologist in the early 1900s theorizes about continental drift and disappears on an expedition to Antarctica.

Mathematicians

Mark Cohen, The Fractal Murders. Mystery
A math professor thinks the deaths of three experts in fractal geometry may be related.

Physicists

Rebecca Goldstein, Properties of Light.
A young physicist seeks out an older scientist whose theories were rejected and becomes involved in a web of betrayal and tragedy.

Tom Grace, Quantum.
An experimental physicist claims to have discovered an unlimited power source but a rival is determined to stop him at all costs.

N.M. Kelby, Theater of the Stars.
An astrophysicist goes to France to accept an award and learns about her mother’s past in Nazi-occupied Paris and at Los Alamos.

Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams.
Albert Einstein has a series of dreams that culminate in his essay on the relativity of time.

Physicians

April Christofferson, Clinical Trial.
A doctor on a Blackfoot Reservation is suspicious when an epidemic arises at the same time that an experimental vaccine is ready for clinical trial.

Craig Danner, Himalayan Dhaba.
An American woman seeking direction in her life reluctantly accepts the position of town doctor in a remote Himalayan village.

Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon.
A cardiologist who is the only survivor of a serial killer known as the Surgeon must help the police when the killing starts again.

Joshua Gilder, Ghost Image.
A plastic surgeon realizes that a horribly injured patient is his lover and he becomes a suspect.

Perri Klass, The Mystery of Breathing.
A pediatrician who works with premature infants becomes the target of a campaign of anonymous hate mail and vicious accusations.

Patrick Lynch, Omega.
When patients at his clinic start dying from antibiotic-resistant infections, a doctor tries to track down a superdrug that is rumored to exist.

Kenneth Oppel, The Devil’s Cure.
An oncologist helps track an escaped inmate whose blood may hold the key to a cancer cure.

Susan R. Shreve, The Visiting Physician.
A doctor returns to the small town where her sister vanished to fill in for the local doctor during a mysterious epidemic.

Coroners

Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem. Mystery
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta tracks a serial killer and finds herself a target. First in a series.

Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead. Mystery
A forensic anthropologist in Quebec links a dismembered body with a series of similar murders and begins to track a serial killer.

Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted. Mystery
A pediatrician who serves as the town coroner finds the body of a brutally murdered college professor.

Dentists

Carola Dunn, Die Laughing. Mystery
Daisy Dalrymple can’t help but investigate when she arrives for an appointment and finds her dentist dead.

Susan Isaacs, Compromising Positions.
A bored housewife helps investigate the murder of a periodontist and gets involved with the detective.

Psychologists

Jonathan Kellerman, Therapy. Mystery
When a man and his girlfriend are found dead, psychologist Alex Delaware seeks out the therapist who may hold the key. Part of a series.

Howard Roughan, The Promise of a Lie.
A psychologist is framed for a murder and must untangle the secrets of a mysterious patient.

Stephen White, Blinded.
Psychologist Alan Gregory struggles with patient confidentiality when a woman tells him she thinks her husband is a serial killer. Part of a series.

Veterinarians

Laura Crum, Hayburner. Mystery
A veterinarian tries to discover who is setting fire to barns where horses are housed.

Sue Miller, While I Was Gone.
A successful veterinarian with a happy family finds her world shaken up when someone from her past life returns.