True Crime and Medical Thrillers

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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
By Richard Preston
614.57 PRE
This is a bone-chilling account of how a strain of a lethal, infectious, previously unknown virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory and the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and prevent the spread of the virus.

Isolation Ward
By Joshua Spanogle
F SPANOGLE
Three female residents of a group home for the mentally impaired are victims of a baffling and unstoppable virus. Dr. Nathaniel McCormick, from the Center for Disease Control, peers into their lives and habits in an attempt to discover the source of virus and what he finds chills him to the very bone.

The Alienist
By Caleb Carr
MYSTERY CARR
Carr’s work is an intricately detailed and outstanding psychological thriller set in 19th century New York City. A deadly serial killer stalks the streets of New York City and Teddy Roosevelt, police commissioner, recruits the “alienist” (an early kind of abnormal psychologist) along with a police reporter to track down a serial killer.

The Onion Field
By Joseph Wambaugh
364.1523 WAM
This classic of true crime is an in-depth analysis of a 1963 event in Los Angeles. Two cops pull over two crooks in an otherwise routine traffic stop. But the desperate crooks kidnap the cops, drive them out to an onion field in the countryside, and murder one. The other escapes death but is haunted by guilt over this partner's death and his inability to help.