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What happens if you deny that COVID-19 is a real problem? Dr. Duncan “Mac” MacGregor finds out. He experiences firsthand the devastating effects of coronavirus when he is trapped in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. He returns to the USA with a mission - to warn Americans about the impending plague. Melody Swift, prominent conservative newscaster, opposes Mac at every turn and denies the importance and even the reality of coronavirus.

Der mysteriöse Tod eines angesehen Richters entpuppt sich als perfider Anschlag. Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team finden heraus, dass der Herzschrittmacher des Opfers gehackt und als Mordwaffe benutzt wurde. Die Tat scheint mit einem spektakulären Gerichtsprozess in Verbindung zu stehen, den der Richter verhandelt hat. Die Experten des Rechtsmedizinischen Instituts bekommen es mit einem gefährlichen Auftragskiller zu tun, der schließlich auch sie ins Visier nimmt. Und die Situation gerät zunehmend außer Kontrolle.

While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson. Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder...

Will the last humans on Earth please turn out the lights? James Patterson's ZOO was just the beginning. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilization--or...

Ingen kan hjælpe dig. Ingen kan høre dig skrige... I de mørke skygger i en gyde i Bostons Chinatown har man fundet en hånd. På taget ovenover ligger en kvindes afskårne hoved. To ikke-menneskelige hårstrå er det eneste spor, kriminalassistent Jane Rizzoli har at gå efter, men de er nok til, at hun og retsmediciner Maura Isles gør en overraskende opdagelse. Dette voldelige overfald har en grum forhistorie.

Han iagttager dem. Han venter. De forsvinder. Der er sket noget forfærdeligt i den tilsneede landsby Kingdom Come i Wyoming. Tolv sælsomt ens huse står mørke og forladte. Menneskene, der boede der, er tilsyneladende pist forsvundet fra jordens overflade. Maura Isles kører gennem området sammen med en gruppe venner, da de pludselig bliver fanget i en snestorm. De søger ly i den forladte landsby. Deres mareridt er først lige begyndt. Flere dage senere flyver Jane Rizzoli til Wyoming for at lede efter sin forsvundne veninde.

Da en perfekt konserveret mumie bliver fundet i den støvede kælder under Crispin Museum i Boston, vækker det begejstring, både på det skrantende museum, der pludselig har en publikumsattraktion i sin samling, og i offentligheden, der døber det sjældne fund Madam X. En CT-scanning bliver udført under stor bevågenhed, men det står hurtigt klart, at noget ikke er, som det skal være. Det mumificerede lig viser tegn på nylige skader, og Madam X er ikke længere en sag for oldtidseksperter, men en sag for retsmediciner Maura Isles.

Det latinske ord PECCAVI står skrevet i blod på gerningsstedet, hvor en ung kvinde er blevet brutalt myrdet. JEG HAR SYNDET, betyder det. Det er en isnende julehilsen til retsmediciner Maura Isles og kriminalassistent Jane Rizzoli fra Boston, der hurtigt forbinder offeret med den kontroversielle og celebre psykiater Joyce O’Donnell - Janes faglige nemesis og medlem af Mefisto-klubben. På toppen af Beacon Hill hengiver klubbens medlemmer sig til analysen af ondskab: Kan ondskab forklares videnskabeligt? Har den en fysisk tilstedeværelse? Vandrer der dæmoner rundt på jorden?

En uidentificeret kvinde lader til bare at være endnu et kadaver i lighuset, indtil retsmediciner Maura Isles ser liget åbne øjnene. Den meget levende kvinde bliver kørt til hospitalet med fuld udrykning, hvor hun, med chokerende kold præcision, myrder en sikkerhedsvagt og tager flere personer som gidsler... En af dem er den meget gravide patient Jane Rizzoli. Mens de anspændte timer tikker afsted, allierer Maura sig med Janes mand, FBI-agenten Gabriel Dean, for at finde frem til den mystiske morders identitet, men sagen stikker meget dybere end bare en almindelig gidseltagning.

Retsmediciner dr. Maura Isles er vant til at stå ansigt til ansigt med døden i sit daglige arbejde, men aldrig før har et dødsfald rystet hende så meget, for den kvinde, der findes skudt i nærheden af Mauras hjem, ligner hende på en prik, helt ned til de mindste detaljer. Og ikke bare det - en dna-test bekræfter den overrumplende kendsgerning: Den gådefulde dobbeltgænger er rent faktisk hendes tvillingesøster.

Special Forces soldier and medic Walter River would give anything to snatch more than a few seconds of down time to see if he can rattle the no-nonsense and incredibly hot Dr. Lloyd he's protecting, but dodging explosions, snipers, and student radicals who've unleashed a lethal bio-engineered microorganism have made that almost impossible. Maybe he'll get a chance - if he can figure out how to keep them both alive.

When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Prestons' neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, Matthew's lifelong obsession is to somehow get into the prison, gain access to Nash, and exact the ultimate personal revenge. He devises a plan to become a prison doctor to gain access to Nash.

Suspicious deaths. Broken bonds. Lives in peril. Redemption. Past-haunted emergency physician Zack Winston and case-hardened defense attorney Bridget Larsen battle a malicious malpractice suit. They uncover a medical conspiracy trading in drugs and murder. As they peel back layers of truth, past relationships and current alliances destabilize-threatening both their lives. A new bond ignites between them.

Susannah has two beautiful daughters, a high-flying medical career, a successful husband and an enviable life. Her hair is glossy, her clothes are expensive: she truly has it all. But when—on the hottest day of the year—her strict morning routine is disrupted, Susannah finds herself running on autopilot. It is hours before she realises she has made a devastating mistake. Her baby, Louise, is still in the backseat of the car, and it is too late to save her.

On the outside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a pillar of the community: the youngest division chief at his hospital, a model son to his elderly parents, fiercely devoted to his wife and two young daughters. On the inside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a high-functioning sociopath - a man who truly believes himself to stand above the ethical norms of society. As long as life treats him well, Balint has no cause to harm others. When life treats him poorly, he reveals the depths of his cold-blooded depravity.

Determined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands her patients’ suffering better than most, because she’s lost her memories, too. Desperate to become herself again, she pops the same experimental drug she prescribes to her patients. And, like them, she remembers a little more each day. Until one of her patients, a successful accountant, jumps from an eight-story window to his death.

When a young woman in New York City dies mysteriously after a trip to Brussels, top epidemiologist Lowell Kaplan identifies the cause of death as the Marburg Virus - a fatal strain that has surfaced only once before in history. Determined to trace the source of the disease, Kaplan follows a trail of intrigue from the labs of Germany to the jungles of Central Africa. With danger nipping at his heels and the secrets of the virus' origin kept deliberately under wraps, Kaplan must go to unimaginable lengths to stop a deadly scheme.

In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind—and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by profit and greed. Trying to find some normalcy...

New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two...

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions. The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take. And now...they might just be playing with yours too.