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Body broker Penny Lin keeps her distance from the past as she transports donated cadavers in Portland, Oregon, to laboratories, universities—anyone who can justly benefit from the dead. Then, among the deceased, Penny finds murder victim Cesar Velasquez, her ex-lover and a major figure in medical research, whose body comes with an anonymous warning: Don’t tell a soul.

While the world is busy holding its breath, Ishmael Weinberg is just trying to fix his fountain pen. Ishmael has spent thirty years hiding in the thirteenth century. He writes about obscure kings and falconry while the modern world goes to hell on Twitter. He thinks he can outrun history by...

From "the queen of of forensic fiction" (Los Angeles Times) Patricia Cornwell, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series—now an original series on Amazon Prime! The newest installment in the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series...

Alone in the northern wilderness, Callan makes a single mistake while field-dressing a deer. The knife slips. The wound is deep. Contaminated. And hours from medical help. What follows is not a heroic survival tale, but a clinical countdown.

Leahs Leben scheint perfekt zu sein. Sie hat ihre Passion zum Beruf gemacht, leitet erfolgreich ein Yoga-Studio und scheint auch in der Liebe ihr Glück gefunden zu haben. Aber wie gut kennt man den Menschen, den man liebt, mit dem man sein Leben teilt? Ihre Zweifel kommen nicht von ungefähr. Hütet sie doch selbst ein Geheimnis wie ihren Augapfel. Und je tiefer sie in Tures Vergangenheit gräbt, desto mehr Geheimnisse und verstörende Wahrheiten kommen ans Licht.

When her mirror twin goes missing, Casey is led to a deadly paradise where no one escapes… Casey and Nora are mirror twins; identical—sort of. Casey is right-handed, Nora is left-handed. Their moles sit on opposite cheeks. In terms of personality, they are also diametrically opposed. So, when her high-strung sister disappears after a fight with her husband, Casey shouldn't be as concerned as she is. Nora's done it before. Her husband seems nonplussed. But this time, things feel different. It's a twin thing; Casey knows it in her bones. Something is terribly wrong.

The Perfect Narcotic... Dr. Roger Jackson has seen thousands of arrhythmias in thirty years of cardiology at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has never seen one he couldn't explain -- until a young woman arrives in his CCU with a heart rate that won't break and a toxicology screen that comes back clean. When a second case follows two days later, Roger starts pulling a thread that leads south across the Gulf of Mexico to a cartel that has done something new: gone legitimate.

Nell'indagine che sta conducendo per scoprire cos'è davvero successo al suo vice, Jack Fielding, ucciso sei mesi prima, Kay Scarpetta ha deciso di incontrare una detenuta della Georgia Prison for Women, una donna condannata per reati sessuali e madre di una diabolica assassina. Sono ragioni personali, oltre che professionali, a metterla nella necessità di fare luce su macabri omicidi: il massacro di un'intera famiglia avvenuto anni prima a Savannah e una serie di morti inspiegabili che si stanno susseguendo a un ritmo inquietante.

PANDEMIE! ist ein kompromissloser, authentischer Roman über die ersten Monate von COVID-19 in Zentralflorida. Basierend auf echten Erlebnissen im Krankenhaus – verdichtet zu einer packenden Geschichte – zeigt dieses Buch, wie sich die Realität für Ärzte, Pflegekräfte und Atemtherapeuten tatsächlich anfühlte: chaotisch, tödlich, erschöpfend und geprägt von Systemversagen. Keine Heldenromantik, keine politischen Parolen. Nur die Wahrheit aus der Frontlinie.

In the ruthless labs of Helix Innovations, geneticist Dr. Emily Harper uncovers a shocking secret: a hidden sequence in every living organism that determines the precise moment of death. Her discovery triggers a moral dilemma—whether to allow Helix to exploit it for profit, stay silent, or give it up to an organization craving control.

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.

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.

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.

In the high-stakes environment of Mercy General Hospital, a countdown is underway to a looming government shutdown, and the patients are revealing astonishing truths. Instead of complaints, they whisper coordinates, share chemical equations, and offer diagnoses with uncanny precision. As the medical staff, including Dr. Aris Thorne, cling to their charts, they face an unsettling reality: the dying hold insights that could save lives—even as their own hang in the balance.

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?

Dr. Dean Graves, M.E. is asked to help the Atlanta Health Department investigate a respiratory illness that’s infecting—and killing—mostly young, healthy individuals. The victims of the deadly disease seem to be random, with no traceable source for the exposure. As the illness with a 100% mortality rate spreads across Georgia, including Augusta where Dr. Graves lives and works, he starts to question whether this could be an act of bioterrorism.

Dr. Lindsey Hart has spent twenty years behind the locked doors of a high-security psychiatric hospital, a place where the line between sanity and madness is thinner than the ward walls.

A devastating misdiagnosis. A buried truth. One man’s fight for justice. After the sudden death of his wife, decorated war veteran Jon Wesley is drowning in grief, addiction, and the crushing weight of fatherhood. Isolated and unraveling, he’s barely holding on. Then, a mysterious whistleblower comes forward with a chilling claim: Amanda’s cancer was misdiagnosed, and her life could have been saved. The revelation thrusts Jon into a deadly web of medical negligence, buried errors, and systemic deceit.

È la notte di Natale a Central Park e Temple Gault, l'inafferrabile serial killer, guarda la sua ultima vittima mentre si lava il sangue dalle mani con la neve appena caduta. Kay sta eseguendo un'autopsia quando riceve la notizia che il killer è tornato in azione. E l'incubo ricomincia. Mentre Scarpetta inizia a indagare, Gault uccide ancora. E colpisce molto vicino a Kay. È chiaro che il suo vero obiettivo è proprio lei.

Feminist dystopian thrillers have been hitting eerily close to reality lately, and The Last Midwife brings that discomfort home. ‘I’m going to snuff out the old witches–every last one of them!’ Childbirth in England is a state-controlled procedure. Midwives have been outlawed for decades. Only a handful remain, risking everything to help mothers give birth in secret, but now their very existence is under threat.