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Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.

Something deadly lurks in the forest around Cinderfield. Locals put the unusually high number of disappearances down to transients or runaways; some even blame the Cinderman, a figure of local legend rumoured to haunt the woods looking for unsuspecting victims. Forensic specialist Laughton Rees doesn’t believe in monsters. Already investigating the area’s history of missing women, news of the latest ‘runaway’ Maddie Friar brings her to Cinderfield to find out the truth.

London, 1920. There's a killer on the streets of Camden Town, and no woman is safe. When a woman's body is dragged from the Regent's Canal on a freezing January night, eminent forensic pathologist and criminal sleuth Dr Bernard Spilsbury immediately detects foul play. And when a second woman washes up dead under similar circumstances, police realise they are looking for a dangerous predator. Is someone luring lonely spinsters to their deaths through a newspaper Lonely Hearts column? And can they be stopped before they strike again?

Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Raven has seen thousands of dead bodies but when a drowned man knocks against the hull of her canalboat, it's a bit too close to home. Cassie is grappling with the loss of her 'gift' - her conviction that she could sense the last thoughts of the dead - and at first the mystery man with the golden-green eyes isn't sharing his secrets. But the case gets under her skin and when Cassie joins forces with Detective Phyllida Flyte, together they start to dredge up secrets from the past.

Nothing is as dangerous as a government agency scorned. When Dr. Meiling Chen-Adams is threatened with prison for practicing without a license and accused of killing people in Africa with her monoclonal antibodies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a high-stakes political battle.

Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero, Ryan Brenan, has it all. A booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy loving family. Then, the apparitions begin.

Weil die Wahrheit spitze Dornen haben kann: "Die Zerrissenen", der dritte Band der Thriller-Trilogie von Stephanie Fey. Mit stiller Verzweiflung – oder eiskaltem Kalkül... Eigentlich soll die Rechtsmedizinerin Carina Kyreleis die Polizei bei den Ermittlungen um eine Serie von Grabschändungen unterstützen, doch dann entwickelt eine Routineuntersuchung eine erschreckende Dynamik: Carina begutachtet die Leiche eines Strafgefangenen, der sich angeblich selbst erhängt hat – und erkennt Ungereimtheiten, die sie an ein lang zurückliegendes, blutrotes Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte erinnern.

Cheyenne must overcome her mistrust of the army ranger who says he is trying to save her life in order to help him, to live, to stay alive herself, and hope for a future. As she lays dying, she wonders what might have been had she trusted Scott. Scott must stop the family who is bent on deconstructing the country with a bioweapon and find a way back to Cheyenne before she dies.

After surviving a terror attack that took her husband, Lucy is trying to rebuild her life for her two teenage children. She makes the decision to move them all to an off-grid mountain community. Away from the insanity their life had become, their temporary solution becomes a permanent way of living. Lucy believes she is giving her kids the perfect life, and a way of living that they truly want. Until the day her son, Vincent, decides to leave without saying a word. Lucy and her daughter, Avery, leave their secluded life to search for him in the nearby town.

Ich liebe nur dich! Ein Satz, der Gänsehaut bereitet. Valerie führt eine glückliche Beziehung, in der Manuel ihr Mittelpunkt ist. Zumindest sieht es ihr Umfeld so. Doch schon bald kann sie die blauen Flecken nicht mehr verbergen. Allerdings ist die größte Bedrohung nicht das, was sich hinter den geschlossenen Türen ihrer Wohnung abspielt. Ihr Albtraum beginnt, als sie sich am sichersten fühlt. Ist ihr gesamtes Leben eine Lüge? Der Kampf um die Wahrheit beginnt.

Fünf ermordete Paare, keinerlei Beweise... Kay Scarpetta jagt den Pärchenmörder. In Williamsburg, Virginia geht ein Serienmörder um, der es auf junge Liebespaare abgesehen hat. Vier Pärchen sind in den vergangenen zwei Jahren vermisst gemeldet und erst Monate später tot aufgefunden worden – immer im Wald und schon so verwest, dass selbst eine erfahrene Gerichtsmedizinerin wie Kay Scarpetta keine Todesursache feststellen konnte.

After an ancient virus is unearthed in an Egyptian tomb by an archaeology grad student, he unwittingly sets it loose in a small Northwestern town. Cats begin acting strange and aggressive, forming packs and roaming the streets after dark, attacking people and dogs. Human victims of these attacks develop vertical pupils as they begin to lose their minds.

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few in Bampton liked him, knowing him to be a wife-beater and distinctly unsavory character, so when some hungry pigs unearth his corpse from a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. As bailiff, it is Hugh de Singleton’s duty to bring Edmund’s killer to justice. But where is he to start investigating when almost everyone in the village has a motive? And when everyone is pleased to see the scoundrel dead, who knows how far they might go to help someone get away with murder?

Am Schauplatz eines Verkehrsunfalls wird die Leiche eines Mannes gefunden, der schon Stunden zuvor ums Leben kam, aber dennoch typische Unfallverletzungen aufweist. Im Blut des Toten findet sich ein unbekannter Wirkstoff. Rechtsmediziner Dr. Russel Owen bittet einen Freund aus Studientagen um Hilfe und kommt dabei skrupellosen Menschenversuchen auf die Spur.

My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn’t mean anything to you, unless you’re about to die—and then I’m your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept and burning their house to the ground. When the case lands on barrister Neve Harper’s desk, she knows it could make her career. A matter of days before the case, as Neve is travelling home for the night, she is approached by a man. He tells her she must throw the case or the secret about her husband’s disappearance will be revealed. Failing that, he will kill everyone she cares about, until she does as she is told.

Du hast die Macht über dich selbst, über dein Handeln, deine Gedanken und deinen Willen... Und wenn sie splittert, die Macht? Du fährst erholt aus dem Urlaub an einen Rastplatz. Du denkst, das Leben ist wunderbar. Aber was passiert, wenn sich deine komplette Realität nach diesem einen Stopp grausam verändert? So ergeht es Dr. Jan Volkmann, Neurochirurg und trockener Alkoholiker. Seine Lebensgefährtin Nina verschwindet an einer Tankstelle spurlos. Bei der verzweifelten Suche nach ihr stimmen seine Erinnerungen plötzlich nicht mehr mit den Tatsachen überein.

As Dr. Meiling Chen-Adams, prepares for her Maui honeymoon, a call from President Warrington changes her and Ryan’s lives forever. Meiling's story has weaved through the media during the previous three months and attracted the president's attention. He wants Meiling to apply her RNA virus theories to counter the CCP’s bioweapons.

Almost three years after a deadly biological event killed millions, Alice carves out a life with an isolated community of survivors on a fortified island in New York. But just as quickly as the Haze spread, so has news of her rare blood type placing a target on her back.

The consequences of fighting for justice in a quiet New Mexico community are unfathomable in this intense medical thriller where powerful enemies hide the truth—no matter the human cost.