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What kind of person would dream of harming the elderly? How could such a thing ever happen in a place as nice as Marian Manor? These are the thoughts that plague Nora Brady, the young student nurse assigned to the lovely nursing home in Jacobsport, a small coastal town in northern California. When cherished belongings of the residents begin disappearing and several residents die unexpectedly, Nora is forced to act. While carefully observing those around her, she looks for clues, follows her hunches and plays detective as well as student nurse.

Rachel North and her father have spent the last five years surviving the post-apocalyptic wilderness in Connecticut, five years after widespread pandemic transformed most of the world’s population into hungry, unrelenting monsters. But when her father comes down sick and their cabin is attacked by mysterious invaders, Rachel finds herself on a new journey with a different purpose.

Amelia Winn es una enfermera forense que atiende víctimas de agresiones sexuales. Pero un trágico accidente la deja sorda y cae en una depresión que la lleva al alcoholismo. Así es como pierde todo aquello que le importa: su trabajo, su esposo y la pequeña hija de él, Nora. Han pasado dos años, y con la ayuda de su perro guía, Amelia finalmente se está recuperando. Pero esa mañana, en un paseo con su perro, encuentra el cadáver de una mujer flotando.

Dr. Marnie Liccione and Dr. Louise Finnerty team up again to investigate the violent death of a young veteran at a Colorado VA Behavioral Health clinic. Was it suicide or murder? The violent death of Josh Baker, a young veteran and patient at the Front Range VA Behavioral Health Clinic, thrusts Marnie Liccione, M.D. and Louise Finnerty, M.D. into a fast-paced murder mystery set within America's largest health care system. Is Josh another victim of the suicide epidemic or something more sinister?

In The Cure, Dr. Harrison Hawk, a brilliant scientist, stumbles upon a groundbreaking potential cure for aging itself. His discovery not only promises to revolutionize human existence but also holds the power to eradicate most diseases making it the most coveted medical breakthrough in history. When Hawk's discovery falls into the wrong hands, he becomes entangled in a web of ancient societies, mystical traditions, and hidden secrets spanning millennia.

Der neue Fall für Lobenstein & Künzel Vor deiner Vergangenheit kannst du nicht davonlaufen... Als Lars und Yvette Kaiser eines Abends nach Hause kommen, erleben sie den Alptraum aller Eltern: Ihr achtjähriger Sohn Piet ist spurlos verschwunden. Eine Blutlache im Haus weckt schlimmste Befürchtungen. Die Polizei sucht fieberhaft nach dem vermissten Jungen, unverzüglich wird eine Sonderkommission einberufen. Wurde der kleine Piet entführt, um Lösegeld zu erpressen? Oder stecken andere, abgründige Motive hinter seinem Verschwinden? Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.

Stephen Englehart, an Armed Forces medical examiner, dedicates his life to bringing peace to the families of fallen soldiers. Tagged as one of the best, he's able to spot forensic clues others miss. But when the body of a US Marine, supposedly burned beyond recognition, shows up with hardly a scratch, even Stephen is stumped. Were the bodies switched? Then, in the middle of the autopsy, the impossible happens. The soldier wakes up.

Liza Larkin, a socially aberrant pathology resident, relies on these words of her late father to guide her through a world she doesn’t feel a part of. If not for his training over the years and her psychiatrist’s ongoing care, she might be in jail—or worse. So when her colleague, Megan, worries something awful has happened to her aunt, Liza does what she has learned to do. She helps. She drives Megan to Boston to look for the woman. It doesn’t take long. Megan’s aunt lies dead in her condo, in what is soon ruled a freakish accident.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

When human remains are found in a fisherman's crab pot, Detective Alana Mack faces her toughest case yet. As she unravels a complex web of genetic links, Alana becomes the target of a seemingly random attack, leaving her injured and reliant on her ex-husband for help.

Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, hosts an F1 race, the largest sporting event in the city's history and a prime target for terrorism. With over a half million people descending on the Strip for the event, a bomb detonated in a parking garage days before the race. In the emergency room, Doc fights to save the lives of a pregnant doctor and her premature baby injured in the blast, spurring him to risk his own life to find justice for the victims.

Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people. But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart.

Weltweit sorgt ein geheimnisvolles Medikament für Furore, das die Leistungsfähigkeit des Menschen angeblich um ein Vielfaches steigert. Die Geburt der Übermenschen steht kurz bevor. Schon bald wird die Welt wie wir sie kannten eine andere sein. In dieser Zeit des Umschwungs begibt sich der Student Alexander auf eine Reise in seine Vergangenheit. Vor zwölf Jahren verschwand sein Vater, ein bekannter Chemiker, plötzlich aus seinem Leben. Zeitgleich wurde Alexander Zeuge einer unfassbaren Bluttat an seiner Schule.

“There’s a reason Kathy Reichs is the doyenne of forensic fiction—because her MO is to keep the reader guessing till the last paragraph.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her...

Der neue Fall für Lobenstein & Künzel. Ihre Leidenschaft ist das Töten. Du bist ihr nächstes Ziel. Sie ist eine eiskalte Profi-Killerin. Sie tötet Menschen für Geld.Ihre Markenzeichen: Hinterhältigkeit und Grausamkeit. Sie hinterlässt keine Spuren. Doch dann macht sie einen verhängnisvollen Fehler ... Kommissar Alkan Gülert steckt in einer tiefen familiären Krise. Seine Schwester Celina braucht seine Hilfe.

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence. Kanetha Wilson—friend of the first victim—is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague.

Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to act and finds himself drawn into Sidney Parker’s sad life.

When Dr Anna Diaz moves from an urban practice in Cardiff to take on a new job in Bly, a remote village in rural Wales, she finds a community reeling from the unexpected death of their last GP and a startling number of curious rare medical conditions. Among them, a young woman who has become so hairy she looks like an ape, a farmer who is growing new bones, a teacher who hasn't slept for a month, and an old man who has gained enormous amounts of weight and has horns growing out of his head. Deeply unsettled, the locals feel something viral and horrendous is happening to them...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. **EVIL BONES, THE THRILLING NEW KATHY REICHS NOVEL, IS OUT NOW** It’s never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the centre of a Washington, D.C., arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence...