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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2014
  • Latest Book:
    March 2022
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Book List in Order: 15 titles



  • When former mob thug turned doctor, John Cesari, takes a job as a gastroenterologist at a small hospital in upstate New York, he assumes he’s outrun his past and started life anew. But trouble has a way of finding the scrappy Bronx native.


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  • Dr. John Cesari is a gastroenterologist employed at Saint Matt’s Hospital in Manhattan. He tries to escape his unsavory past on the Bronx streets by settling into a Greenwich Village apartment with his girlfriend, Kelly. After his adventures in Hos...



  • John Cesari is a gangster turned doctor living in Manhattan saving lives one colonoscopy at a time. While on a well-deserved vacation, he stumbles upon a murder scene and becomes embroiled in political intrigue involving the world’s oldest professi...



  • In Manhattan, a cancer ridden patient commits suicide rather than become a financial burden to his family. Accusations of malfeasance are leveled against his caregivers. Rogue gastroenterologist, part-time mobster, John Cesari, is tasked to look into...



  • A deranged anesthesiologist with unnatural desires lures innocent women to his brownstone in a swank section of Manhattan. All was going well until John Cesari M.D. came along becoming a thorn in his side. Known as The Gas Man, his hatred of Cesari r...



  • Dr. John Cesari, former mobster turned gastroenterologist, finds himself on the wrong end of the law. A felony conviction lands him in Riker’s Island, one of the country’s most dangerous correctional facilities, doing community service.Fighting t...



  • Recovering from a broken heart, John Cesari MD embarks on a Mediterranean cruise to unwind and clear his head.His goals are to see the sights, eat a lot, and most of all to stay away from women. A chance encounter in a Venetian Bar with the lusty cap...



  • John Cesari’s former lover, Kelly, and her children have gone missing and her husband is found dead in an underground garage. When law enforcement fails to act, Cesari launches his own investigation. He discovers their disappearance is linked to a ...



  • Our favorite gastroenterologist John Cesari joins a small hospital in rural New York and is beginning to acclimate to the colorful administrators who hired him when Jasmine walks into his life. Single, beautiful and just a little bit odd, he is immed...






  • Vacationing in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Dr. John Cesari finds himself in the company of an eclectic group of travelers with mysterious backstories. An unexpected, severe tropical storm hits town knocking out power and making travel nearly impossi...



  • A turf war erupts between rival mobster gangs in lower Manhattan over control of gentlemen's club on Second Avenue. Dr. John Cesari gets dragged into the thick of things as his lifelong friend, Vito Gianelli, the legendary capo of Mulberry Street, fi...



  • John Avanzato grew up in the Bronx, New York during the turbulent times of the 1960's and 1970's and is now a physician residing upstate with his family. A lifelong dream of writing fiction came to fruition in 2014 with the publication of his first b...



  • Cancer patients from St. Matt's Hospital are turning up dead all over lower Manhattan and a rogue pain management specialist is suspected. A ruthless financial adviser known as The Sommelier, with a taste for the high life, scams St. Matt's Hospital ...



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    Highly successful and ambitious physicians from St. Matt's Hospital in Manhattan are dying one at a time under suspicious circumstances as a mob war rages in the background over control of contracts to renovate the Brooklyn Bridge. John Cesari MD, a ...



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    On a cold, rainy night in a deserted section of Tysons Corner, Secret Service agents murder a young woman in cold blood. Congressional intern, Emily Hoffman, witnesses the grisly crime and flees for her life to Manhattan, seeking the aid of her physi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Avanzato has published 15 books.

John Avanzato does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pain Killers, was published in March 2022.

The first book by John Avanzato, Hostile Hospital, was published in October 2014.

No. John Avanzato does not write books in series.