Author. Ethicist. Raconteur.

Hi, I'm Parker Garrett.  I write queer thrillers and mysteries.

My writing explores what happens when institutions designed to protect people instead calculate risk, manage harm, and quietly look the other way. Set against the worlds of medicine, technology, and influence, my stories are shaped by more than two decades working inside healthcare and regulatory systems, where decisions are made under pressure, documented imperfectly, and often insulated from consequence.

I write from lived experience. Over the years, I have worked closely with hospital ethics committees, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and AI governance initiatives—experiences that inform my understanding of how ethical infrastructures are designed, how they break down, and how harm can be quietly normalized within complex institutions.  With a doctorate in bioethics and more than two decades working in compliance and institutional oversight, I’ve seen how decisions are made under pressure, how records become partial, and how harm is normalized when responsibility is diffuse. 

Each novel begins with a kernel of truth drawn from real-world systems and asks what happens when those systems fail the people inside them.

In my stories, murder happens in plain sight, if people are willing to see it.

Adverse Events is  my debut novel and it draws on firsthand knowledge of clinical oversight systems, private influence, and the slow erosion of public trust when accountability becomes inconvenient.

I live with my husband and our mini-Goldendoodle, Pickles, in Lewes, Delaware