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Gibt es das perfekte Verbrechen? Ja. Wenn der »Architekt« dahintersteckt. Eine Todesspur quer durch Deutschland: Zusammen mit dem BKA müssen Helen und Nicolas Eichborn einen ungeheuren Anschlag stoppen, der unzählige Menschenleben fordern würde – perfekt geplant vom »Architekten«. Namenlos und unaufspürbar bietet er seit Jahren im Darknet seine Dienste an, und Scheitern ist für ihn keine Option. Nun hat eine Bewegung der Reichsbürgerszene dem Architekten seinen bislang größten und gefährlichsten Auftrag erteilt.

Главный судмедэксперт Китая, Лэй Жун, начинает получать странные и пугающие посылки: человеческие останки, из которых невозможно выделить ДНК. Лэй Жун пытается вычислить убийцу, но тот всегда находится на шаг впереди. Поиски маньяка приводят Лэй Жун к древней рукописи известного судмедэксперта Китая – Сун Цы. Чтобы остановить неуловимого убийцу, Лэй Жун должна разгадать тайну древнего трактата.

Ancora una volta Kay Scarpetta si trova ad affrontare l'orrore. Richmond: nel container di un cargo proveniente da Anversa viene rinvenuto il cadavere di un uomo in avanzato stato di decomposizione; l'autopsia, eseguita dall'anatomopatologa Kay Scarpetta, non riesce a stabilire con precisione la causa della morte e la polizia non è in grado di identificarlo. Unico indizio, un nome su uno scatolone: "Loup-Garou", "lupo mannaro". È la firma dell'assassino? È la stessa mano criminale che in Francia strazia le sue vittime con terrificanti rituali?

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles. Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners). STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that these organs are not distributed by the national transplant list, established to allocate organs fairly.

Jérémy Bouscarat est infirmier à l'hôpital Lariboisière. Une nuit, alors qu'il fume devant les urgences, une voiture pile face à lui. Au volant, une femme en état de choc ; à l'arrière, deux enfants blessés par balle. Lorsque le commandant Alexane Laroche arrive sur place, la mère est introuvable. Pourquoi s'est-elle évaporée dans la nuit ? Pour la flic démarre une course contre la montre ; pour l'infirmier, une quête obsessionnelle qui le transformera à jamais. Qui des deux aura le fin mot de l'histoire ?

Un bacino pieno di segreti. Una siccità che rivela un fondo oscuro. Álex si confronta con un nuovo serial killer. Questa volta, un caso che si divide tra Barcellona e un ambiente rurale, il bacino di Sau.

Toxic Minds is Anthony Lee’s medical thriller where healthcare collides with disinformation and a hateful mind losing touch with reality is the most dangerous of all.

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, Dr. Avit Arceneaux and Sister Lazare, genetically altered clones, escape to Scorpion Hollow, a remote town nestled in the hills of North Georgia. They have nowhere else to go, and Lazare is expecting their first child.

In this quick-hitting thriller set in Baltimore, during the waning years of the Cold War, Lussi Sim, a Norwegian physician, is the medical director of a newborn intensive care unit. Lussi had practiced pediatrics near her parents in Oslo until her father suffered a stroke. Growing up, Lussi experienced chronic mental trauma in the self-assigned role of her mother’s bodyguard. Ironically, her father’s stroke removed the physical threat to her mother and enabled Lussi to pursue her long-suppressed goal to train as a newborn intensive care subspecialist in the United States.

Aus einem fensterlosen Labor, das von keinem Menschen betreten wurde und dessen einzige Tür unter ständiger Beobachtung stand, ist eine Unze Radium im Wert von drei Millionen Dollar verschwunden. Unmöglich!, meint Prof. Dexter. Sein berühmter Kollege van Dusen ist indigniert. Sein Wahlspruch lautet: Nichts ist unmöglich, und so macht sich der große Kriminologe daran, das mysteriöse Geschehen aufzuklären.

When Kimberly ends up in The Phoenix Institute after a traumatic event, she's lost in her minds chaos until Ryker comes along. He's got a stubborn streak a mile wide, and she's got more than a few screws loose. After many grueling group therapy sessions, they seem to have a better understanding of each other. But can this lead to something more?

„Der Tod ist weiß wie Schnee.“ Der Kampf um Leben und Tod ist der Alltag der ehrgeizigen Unfallchirurgin Lisa Wenger. Doch dieser Job fordert immer mehr seinen Tribut – Lisa muss nachhelfen, um die anstrengenden Schichten durchzustehen und mehr als einmal überschätzt sie ihre eigenen Kräfte. So auch, als sie auf dem nächtlichen Weg nach Hause einen schrecklichen Unfall verursacht. Von nun an kann Lisa dabei zusehen, wie ihr einst erfolgreiches Leben zerbricht: Sie leidet unter Schuldgefühlen, verliert ihren Job und gerät in den Fokus polizeilicher Ermittlungen .

Step inside St. Ann’s Hospital—where secrets hide behind every door and death waits in the shadows. In this gripping 1929 mystery by acclaimed author Mignon G. Eberhart, nurse Sarah Keate is no stranger to troubled patients—but Room 18 is different. After a tense dinner party on a stormy night, the hospital is plunged into darkness. A patient is found dead. A vital radium treatment is missing. And whispers of murder swirl through the ward.

Telefonate oscene. Minacce. E quella continua sensazione che ogni suo gesto sia maniacalmente osservato. Beryl Madison, scrittrice di successo, vive da mesi nel terrore, sa che la sua vita è in pericolo. Eppure apre la porta di casa al suo assassino. Poco dopo, sempre a Richmond, viene ucciso un altro famoso scrittore. E i due cadaveri finiscono all'Istituto di medicina legale. Comincia così il difficile lavoro della dottoressa Kay Scarpetta. Indagini di laboratorio che, a poco a poco, si trasformano in un incubo spaventoso che coinvolge la sua stessa vita.

Everything you thought you knew could be a lie When Toms sister is diagnosed with an illness, it starts a chain of events that he could never have thought possible. Unlocking a decades-old mystery may be the first step, but soon he will be caught in a race to save the ones he loves. Can he...

Life as an ER doctor is intense. A shift can turn from mundane to insane in a matter of moments depending on what walks in, or crawls in, the door. Dr. Cameron Turner was no stranger to death. It happened all the time in the ER, but usually not to the doctor. When an irate patient loses control, Cameron crumbles to the ground with a mortal wound. While the team races to save their colleague from certain death, Cameron opens his eyes and finds himself face-to-face with God. He is offered something he has sought his entire life.

Nora Brady has left the sheriff's department after a personal tragedy leads her to re-evaluate her life. She takes a job in the oncology clinic at Harrison Hospital, where she has been a per-diem nurse for some years. When it's discovered that a patient who had been treated in the clinic dies while on a cruise, but an autopsy reveals no evidence of cancer, Nora and her friends are left to wonder if he was the only victim. Unwilling to alert the perpetrators, Nora and the team covertly explore the who and why of such a deplorable scheme.

A company in Switzerland has been working to make the future of medicine and surgery a present-day reality. Their successes have been stacking up for over a decade, and their next project promises great things. Until things start to go awry. Animal experimentation has never been an easy path for medical corporations. Especially when those animals revolt. A woman seeks out the help of Harvey Bennett and the CSO team to bring down an organization she believes is engaging in some questionable research.

The task looks simple to Joe Mayfield and his wife, hacker extraordinaire, Weezy Napolitani: find a stolen laboratory notebook. But when professional assassins attack Joe and Weezy and a biotech’s lead scientist is kidnapped, it’s apparent something much larger than a missing notebook is at stake. It’s a few years in the future. Gene therapy has come of age, bringing with it the hope of curing genetically driven diseases. For Gerard Crecher, the altruistic vision of saving the planet becomes justification to sacrifice a few climate change deniers by altering a few crucial genes.

Packender Thriller, der in die düsteren Praktiken einer Sekte entführt. Doli ist zwölf, als eine Horde weißer Rocker sie im Navajo-Reservat überfällt und halbtot ihrem Schicksal überlässt. Traumatisiert, schwanger und verzweifelt, überlebt sie nur knapp. Die Missionarin einer fundamentalistischen Sekte lockt sie nach Short Creek, wo man sie gegen ihren Willen als fünfte Frau mit einem der radikalen Anführer verheiratet. Sie soll der durch jahrzehntelangen Missbrauch kranken Linie frisches Blut zuführen.