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On her final shift before forced retirement, nurse Allison is ready to tell her story. But this is no ordinary farewell. As the hospital clock ticks towards midnight, she unravels a web of compassion, calculation, and cold-blooded justice that will make you question everything you know about care, mercy, and survival.

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine...

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

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...

Am Hamburger Elbufer wird ein Mann mit einem Dolch in der Schläfe tot aufgefunden. Mord, allem Anschein nach - Hauptkommissar Alexander Rieker von der Mordkommission beginnt mit den Ermittlungen. Die Spur führt zu einem Start-up namens Harmony, das in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten steckt. Ein neu entwickeltes Mittel, "Sleepless", soll dem Unternehmen aus der Krise helfen. Es bietet Menschen die Möglichkeit, teilweise oder ganz auf Schlaf zu verzichten, ohne müde zu werden.

It's been 101 days since Felix Hoffmann's girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. With the Iraq War all but begun, the story coming from Baghdad is that the young woman orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her. But a devastated Felix, doctor at South Berlin Hospital, cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act, and certain clues - as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies - raise the good doctor's suspicions.

When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers - by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace. There was always a trace, Gurney believed. Except what if one day there wasn't?

Juan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, uncovers what he believes to be the key to conquering humanity's susceptibility to cancer. But others are interested in using the new genetic algorithm for very different applications. Nate Carrington, an FBI forensic analyst, has been struggling with several cold cases when he's alerted to an incident at a nearby ranch. It's a case of a newborn calf who is found in the middle of a herd of dead cattle. It provides a single link to Nate's other cold cases....

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.

In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but...

From the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced spine chiller about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as we know it. “Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game.” –#1 NYT...

*Don't miss A Murder in Paris, the brand new twisty thriller from Matthew Blake, available to buy now* THE SMASH HIT NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ~ A GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH ~ TV IN DEVELOPMENT WITH NETFLIX IT’S THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY Everyone knows the Anna O case...

South Africa, Zimbabwe, China and Britain: In the shadow of the Cold War, a deadly secret connects three continents—and time is running out. When a mild-mannered scientist accidentally uncovers a web of international espionage during a routine visit to Beijing, he's thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. His only ally? A magnetic anti-apartheid activist who may have secrets of her own.

She's taking on Big Oil. But when her star witness is arrested for bank robbery, the fight for justice becomes a battle for survival. Environmental attorney Jo Turner is building the case of a lifetime, suing World Petrol, one of the country's largest refineries, for toxic emissions linked to rising cancer rates along the Houston Ship Channel. Her crucial evidence comes from Dr. Tori Nelson, a respected physician and Jo's college crush, whose research exposes devastating community health impacts.

Cyrus Darian used to be a doctor. Now he lives out of a backpack in the Oregon backcountry, avoiding towns, avoiding people, avoiding questions. When he saves a stranger’s life deep in the Oregon wilderness using little more than improvisation and nerve, the act pulls him into a remote off-grid commune that seems, at first, like a quiet place to disappear.

Dr. Autumn Trent, forensische Psychologin und Kriminalpsychologin, will beim Wechsel in die Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse des FBI weiter Erfahrung sammeln und routinierter werden. In Lavender Lake, Florida, verschwinden hochschwangere Frauen. Den einzigen Hinweis auf ihr Schicksal stellt eine einzelne Hand dar … gefunden in einem Sumpfgebiet, in dem es von Alligatoren wimmelt. Ein kaltblütiger Unmensch befindet sich auf einer heiligen Mission, um sein Licht in die dunkle Welt zu bringen. Wie schnappt man einen Kriminellen, der dafür sorgt, dass alle Beweismittel aufgefressen werden?

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Die Geschichte beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten und anonymen Berichten. Kurz vor der Kapitulation der Deutschen Wehrmacht, verschwinden drei U-Boote der Klasse XXI. Die modernsten ihrer Zeit. Fracht und Ziel sind geheim. Nach Ende des Krieges, finden zahlreiche deutsche Wissenschaftler in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika eine neue Heimat. Einige dieser genialen Köpfe verfolgen nur ein Ziel: Die Errichtung eines "Deep State".Im beschaulichen Gainesville, in Florida, hält Nathan Sanders eine Vorlesung an der Medizinischen Fakultät, als er in die Pathologie gerufen wird.

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

Tra racconti di pirati, corse automobilistiche, morti e rapimenti, un thriller ricco di humour nero. Quando il governatore della Virginia, Bedford Crimm, vara una severissima legge sui limiti di velocità, a Tangier Island è il caos. Gli abitanti dell'isoletta insorgono chiedendo l'indipendenza dalla Virginia, e non sono questi gli unici guai per Crimm, alle prese con un'impressionante serie di delitti che insanguinano le strade.