 Michael Stephen Palmer trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. His son, Daniel Palmer is also a crime writer. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) The Sisterhood | 1982 |
| 2) Side Effects | 1985 |
| 3) Flashback | 1988 |
| 4) Extreme Measures | 1991 |
| 5) Natural Causes | 1994 |
| 6) Silent Treatment | 1995 |
| 7) Critical Judgment | 1996 |
| 8) Miracle Cure | 1998 |
| 9) The Patient | 2000 |
| 10) Fatal | 2002 |
| 11) The Society | 2004 |
| 12) The Fifth Vial | 2007 |
| 13) The First Patient | 2008 |
| 14) The Second Opinion | 2009 |
| 15) The Last Surgeon | 2010 |
| 16) A Heartbeat Away | 2011 |
| 17) Oath of Office | 2012 |
| 18) Political Suicide | 2012 |
| 19) Resistant | 2014 |