Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Books in Order

Looking for a brief escape, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery visit a former classmate who serves as coroner in a small Adirondack town. A pest-control worker’s bizarre death, missing remains, and a cluster of dementia-like cases soon point to a terrifying bioweapon that could spread far beyond the mountains.

With Jack Stapleton still recovering from a near-fatal case, Laurie Montgomery shoulders extra work at the medical examiner’s office and assigns a struggling resident to a suicide autopsy. When that same resident soon appears on her table, Laurie suspects a staged death tied to a crooked cancer-diagnostics company.

New York chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is devastated when her longtime friend, internist Sue Passero, dies suddenly in a hospital parking garage. She asks her husband Jack Stapleton to handle the autopsy, and his uneasy findings lead them into a dangerous hunt for a killer hiding inside the hospital.

Chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery and abrasive but brilliant resident Aria Nichols autopsy a pregnant social worker whose death is written off as an overdose. Doubting that story, Aria turns to genetic genealogy databases to identify the unknown father and uncovers a killer who does not want to be found.

When a young woman with a transplanted heart collapses and dies on a New York subway, medical examiner Jack Stapleton suspects more than a random flu. His autopsy points toward gene-edited viruses and a global biotech plot that could turn a local tragedy into a worldwide catastrophe.

Returning from maternity leave, New York medical examiner Laurie Montgomery is assigned what looks like a routine death on the subway. Her suspicions of poisoning draw Jack Stapleton into a case that links a dead researcher, stem-cell start-ups, organized crime, and a kidnapping that hits painfully close to home.

When a college friend in Rome asks for help examining a mysterious tomb, Jack Stapleton brings modern imaging into the heart of the Vatican. The discovery inside sparks a clash between archaeology, faith, and medicine, even as Laurie faces a complicated pregnancy back in New York.

UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez learns from a news report that her grandmother has died after routine surgery in New Delhi. Traveling to India for answers, she teams up with Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery to investigate a booming medical tourism industry with a deadly dark side.

Physician-entrepreneur Angela Dawson has built a chain of boutique surgical hospitals and is ready to take her company public. When drug-resistant staph infections suddenly sweep through her facilities, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery must determine whether this is bad luck, bad hygiene, or deliberate sabotage.

Boston concierge doctor Craig Bowman is stunned when a hypochondriac patient’s death lands him in a high-profile malpractice trial. His estranged brother-in-law, medical examiner Jack Stapleton, agrees to help, but an exhumation and fresh autopsy expose a cover-up that puts careers and lives at risk.

Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery notice an unsettling pattern of healthy patients dying after routine operations at New York’s top hospitals. Their probe reveals that subtle genetic “markers” and aggressive insurance practices may be turning certain people into quiet, profitable losses.

Disillusioned Russian émigré Yuri Davydov drives a cab in New York by day and plots revenge by night, drawing on his past in a Soviet bioweapons lab. When Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery link unexplained deaths to anthrax, they must stop a homegrown bioterror attack in time.

A mobster’s body disappears from a New York morgue, and pathologists Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are left with only questions. Their search leads to a remote African facility where genetically altered primates are being bred for organ transplants, and the science has already slipped its leash.

After losing his family and practice, ophthalmologist turned pathologist Jack Stapleton starts over at New York’s morgue. A string of lethal infections in hospitals linked to the same health-care conglomerate draws him into a conspiracy where bioterror, managed care, and corporate greed collide.

New York forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery is troubled by a spike in drug overdose victims who seem unlikely users. As she battles office politics and mob-linked homicides, she uncovers a grisly scheme in which young professionals are dying so their organs can quietly be harvested.