Dr. Earl Garnet Books In Publication Order
- Lethal Practice (1997)
- Death Rounds (1999)
- The Procedure (2001)
- Mortal Remains (2003)
- The Inquisitor (2004)
- Hot Sorrowful Sweetness of the Dust (2016)
Dr. Richard Steele Books In Publication Order
- Mutant (2001)
- Critical Condition (2002)
Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Darkness Drops (2014)
Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Therapy (2014)
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Peter Clement Books Overview
Lethal Practice
St. Paul’s Hospital. Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. Top ER physician Earl Garnet is one of the few doctors who knows how to insert a cardiac needle. Now a suspect, Garnet races to uncover the truth, even as he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy far bigger and more sinister than he could ever imagine a secret that could blow apart the very medical establishment Garnet has sworn to serve.
Death Rounds
BREEDING GROUNDWhen a nurse in Buffalo dies at St. Paul’s Hospital of a once treatable bacteria, Dr. Earl Garnet and his colleagues try to remain calm. They track the origin of the sickness to University Hospital. But as the infection rages out of control there and more people fall gravely ill including Garnet’s own wife Earl uncovers a shocking connection between the victims. KILLING GROUNDThroughout the community, panic and paranoia spread as wildly as the outbreak itself, and the entire University Hospital staff is quarantined. Yet the mastermind who created this deadly superresistant strain may be someone they know, someone locked within the barricades. Now the sociopath has threatened to infect fifty more people. And that will be only the beginning…
. Death RoundsNo one captures the complex workings of an urban hospital like former ER physician Dr. Peter Clement. His new medical thriller ranges from the realm of microbiology to raw, human rage in a plot so chillingly authentic it could be happening right now…
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The Procedure
‘Heartpounding suspense,’ hailed Entertainment Weekly of Peter Clement’s first medical thriller, Lethal Practice. Now the former ER physician has done it again combining his technical expertise with a page burning plot to create a chillingly plausible novel of suspense. With authentic detail and a surgeon’s precision, Clement captures the tense, electrifying atmosphere of a big city hospital turned into a flash point. For in Fatal Medicine, one threat is more dangerous than contagion: the threat of human beings deciding who should live and who should die…
. Death is a daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, in his pressure cooker career, Dr. Earl Garnet has broken the cardinal rule of modern medicine: he publicly blames a powerful HMO for practicing ‘no fault murder’ in the death of an eighteen month old baby. The HMO swiftly strikes back, igniting a debilitating boycott of the hospital. But after several accidents nearly cost patients their lives, the true bloodletting begins. A doctor is found sprawled out in the parking lot, his throat cut ear to ear. Blamed for instigating the chaos, Earl Garnet knows that he faces more than a deadly power play. The doctor may have uncovered a conspiracy reaching from the halls of one of the nation’s most influential HMOs to a small, experimental clinic in Mexico, where yet another of his patients went for treatment and disappeared. To find answers, Garnet must wade deep into the murky, surreal workings of today’s health care industry. Smart, tough, crackling with suspense, and vivid in its hospital setting, this visionary novel instantly places Peter Clement in the distinguished company of Michael Palmer and Robin Cook. Make no mistake: The Procedure is the work of a first rate physician and an absolutely brilliant storyteller. From the Paperback edition.
Mortal Remains
In a small upstate New York town, an idyllic lake yields a ghastly discovery when the skeletal remains of a young woman missing for twenty seven years are pulled from the icy depths along with unmistakable evidence of her murder. Suddenly, the long dormant case of Kelly McShane Braden’s mysterious disappearance is reactivated. And for two devastated men, dark emotions and disturbing secrets will also rise to the surface. For local coroner Dr. Mark Roper, the murder is more than just a grim interruption of his general practice in sleepy Hampton Junction. Kelly Braden had been a surrogate sister. When the police insist the trail of Kelly s disappearance is too cold to pick up again, he vows to find the missing pieces of the past that will lead him to a killer. Because that s what cracks cold cases: One guy who can t get it out of his head. Yet Mark isn t the only one with Kelly s murder on his mind. Dr. Earl Garnet, chief of staff at Buffalo s St. Paul s Hospital, was once Kelly s secret lover…
and would be savior. Until his plans to rescue her from an abusive marriage were cut short by her vanishing. Now, as the last person to see Kelly alive, he s in danger of becoming the prime suspect, unless he can unmask the murderer first. But neither man knows about the twisted chain of lies and corruption that led to Kelly s death or the shocking revelations that were meant to go with her to a watery grave. And the harder they push for answers, the easier they make it for their lethal quarry to zero in on them and push back with deadly force. With Mortal Remains, Peter Clement remains in total control of readers nerves from the very first page, once more wielding heart racing suspense and scalpel sharp terror with a master surgeon s skill. From the Hardcover edition.
The Inquisitor
It’s spring in Buffalo, New York. At sprawling St. Paul s Hospital, new interns rush through the halls, staff doctors scramble to catch their prot g s mistakes, and everyone is aware of one unrelenting threat: A new and vicious strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS has hit America hard and is menacing the hospital like a wolf at the door. Wrapped in spacesuit like garb to search for every possible source of infection, the hospital staff desperately tries to protect the lives of patients and of each other. Yet despite St. Paul s best efforts, people are dying. In this chilling medical landscape, no one notices the slight spike in the death rate in a palliative care ward. The prevailing attitude is They re supposed to die. That s why we call them terminal. When these same patients complain of terrifying near death experiences, the hospital staff attributes it to delirium caused by medication. But when ER chief Dr. Earl Garnet gets blamed for the unexpected death of a patient, he defies protocol and opens an independent investigation. He quickly becomes suspicious that something far more sinister than disease is killing the hospital s most vulnerable patients. For Garnet, looking into the deaths means rattling relationships that have been built over years relationships with several men and women he once trusted but now must doubt. With the SARS epidemic spinning out of control and a storm of suspicion, fear, and mistrust raging through the corridors of St. Paul s, the hospital is rocked by a horrifying crime: A respected researcher is found brutally murdered. And his executioner may be ready to strike again. With brilliant pacing, scalpel sharp suspense, and an unmatched knowledge of the workings of a big city hospital, Peter Clement is a thriller writer in a league of his own. In his new work, he takes us on a galvanizing, frightening, and constantly fascinating journey set on the front lines of medicine where some dangers can be prevented and others can only be feared. From the Hardcover edition.
Mutant
Former ER doctor Peter Clement blends electrifying human drama with the suspense of top notch medical thrillers. With Mutant he has written one of his most gripping, utterly chilling novels to date. On an isolated stretch of highway in Oahu, a woman cradles her dying son in her arms. In the days that follow, an autopsy draws a shocking conclusion: the boy, his lungs filled with blood, died of a disease previously found only in birds. On the other side of the globe, Dr. Richard Steele, a burned out ER doctor is being recruited into a movement to examine the hazards of genetically modified foods, a job that takes him to an explosive conference in Hawaii. Spearheaded by a charismatic female doctor, the anti bioengineering movement is gathering steam. While a powerful company is using genetic breakthroughs to create disease resistant super crops, activists warn that new DNA strains will wreak havoc on the environment. But no one suspects that the controversy is masking a far more frightening human threat one that could lead to the deadliest weapon of mass destruction ever unleashed upon the world…
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Critical Condition
In the heat of a passionate encounter, ecstasy suddenly turns to terror for renowned geneticist and TV personality Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. Stricken by a brain hemorrhage, she is rendered completely paralyzed and speechless…
but still utterly aware; a prisoner inside her own body. Kathleen is rushed to a Manhattan hospital, her chances of survival slim. Even if she pulls through, the likelihood that she ll sustain permanent brain damage is near one hundred percent. But neither outcome can compare to the insidious fate in store for her masterminded by the very people entrusted with saving her life. As her lover, ER chief Richard Steele, watches and waits for a miracle, Kathleen becomes a pawn in a clandestine plot that runs deeper than medical politics and reaches into the highest echelons of power at New York City Hospital. Placed in the hands, and at the mercy, of revered Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Tony Hamlin, Kathleen descends into a waking nightmare. Powerless to resist the sinister experiments she is subjected to, and unable to cry out for help, she must fight desperately to communicate her tortured, trapped thoughts to Steele before her tormentors can carry their bizarre and potentially lethal work to its completion. Ruthlessly determined to achieve their goals, the secret cabal of ambitious physicians will go to any length to avoid discovery, defy the law, and make medical history at all costs…
even the human life they are sworn to preserve. For anyone who has ever had a mortal fear of hospitals, and the sense of powerlessness that often transpires within their cold, sterile corridors, Peter Clement’s Critical Condition will provide chilling new nightmares along with infectious suspense. From the Hardcover edition.
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