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Chance Hightower wakes up in the emergency room without knowledge of how he got there or what is happening to him. The claustrophobic 22-year-old is told that he has been in an ATV accident, and medical staff is preparing tests.

Sharon Stevenson is a forensic psychiatrist. Her job is to decide whether a patient is of sound enough mind to stand trial, not whether they did or didn’t commit a crime. But Sharon is also a mother grieving the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who has never been found. And what if the man sitting before her, who has been charged with the murders of several women, also claimed the life of her sweet girl? It’s time to find out the truth.

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

In the fall of 2018, Dr. Gennifer Drake’s body washes up on a foggy beach on Galveston Island. Her death propels her two closest friends, Dr. Louise Finerty and Dr. Marnie Liccione to investigate. They discover Gen was researching a deadly new form of dengue fever at the ultra-high security Gulf National Laboratory. Aided by climate change, this mosquito borne illness, known as Break Bone Fever, is spreading northward and threatening lives in the United States.

FBI geneticist Mason Brown and Danish Interpol agent Jonna Nielsen have just seventy-two hours to find the missing man they call The Immortal. He's on the run across Europe and his genetic material may be the most valuable commodity in human history. There's just one problem: Someone else wants him, too. As the time to find him dwindles, Mason and Jonna seem to be one step behind a wealthy man who will stop at nothing. If the tech billionaire finds him first, it could change the economic playing field for the entire world.

Dr. Zack Winston, now an ex-con desperate for redemption, reclaims his emergency medicine career and renews his most important relationship. A web of chilling conspiracies, shadowy cartel figures, and a deadly plot that reaches the highest levels of government threatens him. Lives—and the future of the nation itself—hang in the balance. Zack must confront the truth buried deep in a trail of crime and betrayal.

Mentre Washington si prepara al Memorial Day e il World Pride accende le strade di colori, un incendio devasta una palazzina di Foggy Bottom, quartiere eclettico di villette ottocentesche e palazzi decadenti. Tra le macerie dell'edificio, adibito a Airbnb abusivo, sono rimaste intrappolate quattro persone: per Temperance Brennan, chiamata sul posto come antropologa forense, si tratta di un caso complesso. Le fiamme hanno reso i corpi quasi irriconoscibili, i tessuti sono distrutti, le ossa compromesse.

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This chilling mystery is just begging to be read in one sitting.”—Cosmopolitan Broken features the return of New York Times bestselling author Karin...

Dolphins are magical creatures: They comfort the heartbroken, rescue the lost, even heal the sick. At the Hope Key Dolphin Assisted Therapy center in Florida dolphins use their healing powers to help autistic children communicate and to soothe other troubled people. But what if you don't want help? What if you've gone so far down the wrong path that you can't go back? Katy Grant can't see any way back from the path her life has taken. And she doesn't really care. Working at Hope Key keeps her out of jail. And it just might give her the chance at revenge she wants on the man who ruined her life.

Disturbed pre-med student Keely Rexroth is unable to take ‘no’ for an answer when she is denied entry into a prestigious research program. As her ambition curdles into dark mania, she embarks on her own curriculum of twisted experimentation, fighting to keep her secrets from a campus priest who is too perceptive for his own good.

David Hunter, médecin et anthropologue médico-légal, se rend dans les îles Hébrides, au large de l'Écosse, pour examiner un cadavre qui laisse les locaux perplexes. Un corps entièrement calciné, à l'exception des pieds et d'une main, vient d'être retrouvé dans une ferme abandonnée. Certainement pas un cas de combustion spontanée, comme on voudrait le faire croire. Hunter doit faire parler le cadavre avant que le meurtrier, qui rôde encore sur l'île coupée du monde par une tempête, ne s'en prenne à lui...

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos. Con su maestría habitual en la literatura de intriga, Juan Gómez-Jurado atrapa al oyente irremediablemente.

The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland US. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control has encountered the virus before, and it nearly cost her her life. A mysterious man is killing those who could stop the virus. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, his motivations are unclear. And he has chosen a new target: Samantha Bower.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

The New York Times–bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous...

Shea wakes covered in dried blood and bruises, a dark contrast to her pale skin. She also has no memory of the last year of her life. A stranger named John Doe claims to be a friend- and the only person she can trust. The previous year, Shea Murphy is running a team that works on the development of implantable tech hardware. Noticed by the CEO at Crowned Skull Laboratories, she is offered a position that seems too good to pass up. But, every step forward leads deeper into a world she doesn't understand. Now, journeying to the Alaskan wilderness, Shea fights for answers and survival.

What does it take to wear a flight uniform? What's the toll to stay in one? Join three talented flight crews on gritty, fast-paced helicopter rides through chaos and find out.

She comes home to mourn her father. She stays to uncover the shocking truth. When college student Berry returns to her family’s small Southern California farm after her father’s sudden death, she believes she’s coming home to grieve and reassure her mother that she’ll soon be back for good to run the farm. With farming in her blood, she is eager to bring new life to the failing farm through modernization and sound financial management after receiving her degree in agricultural economics.

Nach der Beerdigung ihrer Eltern wird die sechsjährige Charis von der Familie Burgess adoptiert und wächst behütet auf Torrisdale Castle in Schottland unter der Obhut von Nathan Burgess auf. Je älter sie wird, desto intensiver werden ihre Gefühle für den attraktiven Schotten. Sie beginnen eine leidenschaftliche Affäre. Charis ahnt nicht, dass Calum und sein Vater Böses im Schilde führen und sie Opfer ihres perfiden Spiels wird. Unterdessen hat Pharma Faber in Hongkong eine revolutionäre Entdeckung gemacht: Ein neuer Wirkstoff stoppt den Alterungsprozess!

People come to Hades Archer to dispose of their 'problems' - for a fee. But one night he makes a decision that will change everything. Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his finger on. And as they race to catch a serial killer, Frank starts to wonder if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt.

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...

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves.

Wenn du sein Zeichen erkennst, ist es zu spät! Mitten im Winter wird auf einem Friedhof eine tote Frau gefunden – nur mit einem Nachthemd bekleidet. Unter dem Leichnam entdeckt Rechtsmedizinerin Julia Schwarz das Foto einer anderen Frau mit weit aufgerissenem Auge. Darunter steht ein Datum in drei Tagen ... Bei der Obduktion stößt Julia auf ein verstörendes Detail: drei parallele Kratzer über dem Hüftknochen. Das Markenzeichen eines Serienkillers, der seit Jahren hinter Gittern sitzt. Während Kriminalkommissar Florian Kessler fieberhaft ermittelt, sucht er Antworten beim inhaftierten Mörder.

Si me vieras paseando por la calle, probablemente pensarías que soy de lo más normal. Con mi impoluto uniforme blanco de enfermera y las manos meticulosamente lavadas, no habría nada en mí que te hiciera pensar que soy más que una buena ciudadana. Una buena enfermera. Pero las apariencias engañan. No deberías confiar en mí. Ni siquiera estoy segura de si yo puedo confiar en mí misma.

My life has been shaped by some kind of underworld scheming I don’t really understand. Or maybe I don’t want to know. But now I’m living in darkness and violence, unable to break free but unwilling to succumb to the drug induced stupor my captives force on me. Then Gunnar, a fierce man with a dark relentlessness, charges to my rescue like a black knight, taking vengeance on those who have hurt me. Our first meeting isn’t a rescue out of a fairy tale -- it’s pure chaos. Gunnar may be an ex-con, but he protects me with a ferocity I never knew existed.

At one of the most advanced hospitals in the country, a revolutionary AI system called VARIANT is changing the face of radiology. Trained on vast troves of clinical data, it promises near-perfect diagnoses, lower costs, and faster care. To hospital leadership, it’s a miracle. To the public, it’s the future. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right. A veteran radiology technician begins noticing discrepancies—scans that don’t match symptoms, metadata that doesn’t line up, patients who deteriorate despite clean reports.

Maggie McCabe staat op het randje van de afgrond. Als zeer getalenteerd en gerenommeerd militair traumachirurg heeft ze gevaar nooit geschuwd en staat ze altijd op de plek waar ze de meeste impact kan maken. Haar wereld staat op zijn kop als haar medische bevoegdheid wordt ingetrokken na een reeks tragedies. Maggie wordt opgeroepen om aan de andere kant van de wereld een onconventionele ingreep uit te voeren op een van 's werelds mysterieuzte mannen. Ondanks haar twijfels neemt ze de klus aan, en komt ze terecht in een wereld van onbeschrijflijke rijkdom.

Bullet to the Brain is a Felix Hoenniker medical murder mystery. A short story at the intersection of a murder most foul, a drug dealer grappling with quantum entanglement, and a neurosurgeon who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes. Throw in an angry girlfriend and a genius scientist who disco dances in stiletto heels, and you’re in for a wild ride.

When investigative journalist Claire Dervin stumbles upon a burglary report involving a retired surgeon, she senses something deeper. What she finds is a hidden network of silence—diaries encoded with trauma, institutions that looked away, and survivors buried beneath decades of disbelief. As Claire unearths stories long dismissed, the walls of complicity begin to crack. But truth comes with a price.