Last Patient of the Night

MASH meets Bosch-with a scalpel.

When a young woman dies in his ER, emergency physician AJ Docker can't let it go.

She arrived beaten. Tortured. Fingertips severed. No name. No ID. Before he could save her, she was gone.

In Houston's busiest trauma centre, death is part of the job. But this one is different. Hours earlier she was alive, frightened, hiding something. Now she's a Jane Doe in the morgue.

The police call it homicide. Docker calls it unfinished business.

Partnering with a streetwise cop and K-9 Banshee, Docker steps beyond hospital walls into a criminal underworld more dangerous than anything inside the ER. As the trail winds through tattoo parlours, gang territory, and ruthless operators who silence witnesses, Docker risks his career—and his life—to uncover the truth.

Fast-paced and gritty, Last Patient of the Night launches the AJ Docker series with authentic ER drama, sharp humour, and relentless tension.

If you like Michael Connelly, high-stakes medical suspense, and justice with consequences, this thriller will keep you turning pages well past midnight.

Read the AJ Docker and Banshee Thrillers in any order, or follow the series from the beginning:

1. Last Patient of the Night
2. Faulty Bloodline
3. Sin City Treachery
4. Deadly Equation
5. Terminal Exchanges
6. The Phantom Files - coming March 2026

Last Patient of the Night is MASH meets Detective Harry Bosch. It's a thriller that won't disappoint." -Gregory D. Lee, author of Stinger: An International Thriller