Don Donaldson
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Medical Thrillers

Hello… I see you’ve found your way to the medical thriller room. Over the years, I’ve written five medical thrillers. The first four were published by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Putnam. Between them they generated a good deal of praise from best-selling authors such as Tess Gerritsen, who said the first book was:

“Full of twists and turns, and brimming with chillingly authentic medical detail.”

Michael Palmer said the second book was:

“Fascinating and well written.”

Leonard Goldberg found the third to be:

“…fast paced with believable characters and plenty of twists and turns.”

As so often happens with books these days, the publishers let those novels go out of print. But I’m elated to say that Belle Books has swept in and resurrected them. In addition they will also publish for the first time anywhere, THE BLOOD BETRAYAL, a book that best-selling author, Lewis Perdue, has said:

“…is a compelling, creepy, complex novel about the all too plausible perversion of cutting edge medical research …an intriguing portrait of evil… you will not soon forget.”

So I’m hoping that, along with my forensic mysteries, you will make these books part of your reading future. As these novels make their way into the world from the deep recesses of the book factory, they will be displayed on the right side of this page. Please visit frequently and see how this end of things is going.

-Don Donaldson

The Memory Thief

The Memory Thief

(Originally published with the title, AMNESIA, under the pseudonym, David Best.) HOW THIS BOOK CAME ABOUT Of all the books I’ve written, this is one

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The Judas Virus

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(Originally published under my David Best pseudonym.) EXERPT PROLOGUE KAZAKHSTAN THIS SHOULDN’T BE happening, TR thought as the truck hit a big pothole in the

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The Lethal Helix

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(Originally published with the title, In The Blood) EXERPT PROLOGUE WHAT THE HELL is that? Chester Sorenson had grown up with cows and knew just

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The Killing Harvest

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(Originally published with the title, Do No Harm) EXERPT PROLOGUE DR. GEORGE LATHAM pulled the inner core of the biopsy probe from the outer sleeve

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The Blood Betrayal

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EXERPT CHAPTER 1 DAMN. I do not want to go in there. Death seeped under the operating room doors. It slipped through the crack between

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About Don

For many years I’ve been writing a forensic mystery series featuring the hugely overweight and equally brilliant New Orleans medical examiner, Andy Broussard, and his gorgeous psychologist sidekick, Kit Franklyn.

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New Orleans Forensic Mysteries

  • Cajun Nights
    CAJUN NIGHTS
    Thu, Nov 13 2014
  • Blood On The
    Blood On The Bayou
    Tue, Nov 11 2014
  • No Mardi Gras For The Dead
    No Mardi Gras For The Dead
    Thu, Nov 06 2014
  • New Orleans Requiem
    New Orleans Requiem
    Fri, Aug 17 2012
  • Louisiana Fever
    Louisiana Fever
    Thu, Aug 16 2012
  • Sleeping With The Crawfish
    Sleeping With The Crawfish
    Thu, Aug 16 2012
  • Bad Karma In The Big Easy
    Bad Karma In The Big Easy
    Tue, Aug 14 2012
  • Assassination at Bayou Sauvage2 cover
    Assassination At Bayou Sauvage
    Sun, Aug 12 2012

Medical Thrillers

  • The Memory Thief
    The Memory Thief
    Wed, Feb 05 2014
  • The Judas Virus   print
    The Judas Virus
    Fri, Jun 29 2012
  • The Lethal Helix 1
    The Lethal Helix
    Tue, May 29 2012
  • The Killing Harvest   600x900x300
    The Killing Harvest
    Sun, Apr 29 2012
  • The Blood Betrayal   600x900x300
    The Blood Betrayal
    Thu, Mar 29 2012

Paranormal & Fantasy

  • Garden of the lost
    Garden of The Lost
    Fri, Jul 06 2018
  • ThenCameLight forprint
    Then Came Light
    Thu, Jul 05 2018

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