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Title: What Can’t Be Unseen
Author: Michael Crisp
ISBN: 979-8-90243-666-9
Imprint: RiverRun
On Sale: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Trim Size: 203x127mm
Pages: 300
List Price: 12.99
Category 1: Medical Thriller/Suspense
Category 2: Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Category 3: Psychological Thriller

What Can’t Be Unseen

By Michael Crisp
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From NHS doctor Michael Crisp.
A gripping medical thriller that cuts to the heart of power, ethics, and the cost of truth.

When a young migrant woman dies in a London Emergency Department, NHS doctor James Harland makes a discovery he cannot explain: an unidentified compound in her blood—powerful, experimental, and potentially catastrophic.

The hospital wants the case closed. Harland refuses.

Teaming up with investigative journalist Emily Morris, he follows a trail that leads far beyond the ward—into asylum centres, covert laboratories, and a pharmaceutical breakthrough someone will do anything to protect.

What they uncover is more than a conspiracy. It is a system built to look the other way.

And exposing it may cost Harland everything.

Because once you see the truth… you can’t unsee it.

Drawing on real-world medical experience, Michael Crisp delivers a thriller that is as thought-provoking as it is fast-paced. What Can’t Be Unseen combines the tension of a high-stakes investigation with urgent contemporary themes—medical ethics, institutional accountability, and the human cost of progress.

This is a novel that doesn’t just entertain—it challenges.

Perfect for readers of Val McDermid and Joseph Knox, as well as book clubs looking for fiction that sparks discussion as well as suspense.

MICHAEL CRISP is an NHS doctor with nearly twenty years’ experience. He draws on real clinical insight, rich character observation, and deeply human stories gathered over decades. His writing blends authenticity with pace, tackling topical issues through compelling characters. He now balances medicine with writing and is hard at work on his next novel, The Shadow Helix.

 

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