Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction.Her most recent novel is The Impossible Girl.
One of Kang's top nine medical thrillers, as shared at CrimeReads:
Read about the other entries on the list.Coma, by Robin Cook
This was my first introduction to Robin Cook. I was a kid in the 1970s when the movie version came out and I had nightmares over the movie posters that showed bodies suspended by filament. The concept—harvesting bodes for organs—is not new, but some of the imagery in the book was creepily new and unforgettable. A classic medical thriller.
--Marshal Zeringue