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Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans. Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary Newton, nouvellement arrivée, soupçonne une grippe banale d'être à l'origine de leur maladie. Très vite, le docteur et les habitants d'Olney St. Mary sont plongés dans un cauchemar, alors que la maladie ravage la population locale. Bien que les médecins utilisent les derniers médicaments disponibles, le nombre de morts ne cesse d'augmenter.

Doctor Stephenson's day-to-day routine of caring for animals is shattered by the apparently random murder of his lifelong friend. He and his hound, Lucinda, are drawn into the investigation. Kent soon suspects that small-town politics surrounding a new resort have led to murder, and that it won't end with just one victim. When a nameless toddler is found wandering alone by the river, all bets are off. As he unravels the mystery, Kent struggles with a new love interest and a sense of helplessness, as he fights the medical battle of his career to save his daughter's prize stallion.

Lucas Grafton has spent the last ten years hunting the Conclave, a secret organization who took everything from him, including his very identity. Now he has a lead—an imminent terrorist attack on London—codenamed "Descartes." Jenna Young can't believe she was attacked and barely escaped with her life. Now she's on the run with a stranger and racing against the clock. With only a note left by her father after his death, telling her to use the codeword "Descartes" to get the pills that slow the progression of her illness, Jenna has only days before her body will start to deteriorate.

Dunja Hougaard has gone underground to covertly investigate her former boss, Sleizner. For months, Dunja and her team have been gathering information. When a high-ranking man within the Danish intelligence service and an unknown woman are found dead at the bottom of a lake outside Copenhagen, the trap is finally ready to close. The only question is: whom will it catch? And meanwhile, on the other side of the strait in Helsingborg, the Swedish police Fabian Risk detective receives a message that changes everything.

In The Methuselah Gene, Michael S. Maurer’s mesmerizing medical thriller, Alex Morton, a talented but unorthodox scientist, undertakes the care of little Jimmy Higgins who suffers from one of the rarest diseases in the world, progeria, a genetic mutation that grossly accelerates the aging process. Alex’s study of progeria yields staggering discoveries about the mother of all diseases, aging. What Alex does not know is that Mother Nature jealously guards her secrets and that his newly developed therapies will lead to calamitous unintended consequences.

Seven years after making her escape from an abusive marriage, Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman is settling into her position as medical examiner in the city of San Francisco. Doing what she loves, she can almost put the trauma of her past behind her—until she confronts the case of a young woman, 16 weeks pregnant. Everything about the case says the woman took her own life. As hard as Schwartzman tries to make peace with the evidence in her head, something about the case won’t leave her alone. She’s all too aware of how similar the circumstances are to her own past.

DC Heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury—a dissection. Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds’ former lover, who harbors a grudge against all the victims. Then when prominent people in the US government begin to experience these same deadly cardiac emergencies, it falls to the unlikely team of three to snuff out a catastrophic plot that only the medically astute can divine.

Du weißt, etwas stimmt nicht. Doch niemand glaubt dir... Endlich ein neuer Fall für Rizzoli & Isles von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Tess Gerritsen! Der brutale Mord an einer Krankenschwester hält Detective Jane Rizzoli und Gerichtsmedizinerin Maura Isles in Atem. Noch in Arbeitskleidung wurde ihr der Schädel eingeschlagen. Hat sie einen Dieb überrascht oder hat jemand auf sie gewartet? Was Jane da gar nicht gebrauchen kann, ist ihre Mutter, die sie permanent wegen der vermeintlich entführten Nachbarstochter anruft.

Der brutale Mord an einer Krankenschwester hält Detective Jane Rizzoli und Gerichtsmedizinerin Maura Isles in Atem. Noch in Arbeitskleidung wurde ihr der Schädel eingeschlagen. Hat sie einen Dieb überrascht oder hat jemand auf sie gewartet? Was Jane da gar nicht gebrauchen kann, ist ihre Mutter, die sie permanent wegen der vermeintlich entführten Nachbarstochter anruft. Zudem sind da noch diese unfreundlichen Neuen in der Straße - mit denen ist etwas nicht koscher, glaubt Angela. Jane wischt alle Warnungen beiseite.

Globales Unheil bahnt sich an. Die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, bricht auseinander. Die komplette Sleepless-Serie vom preisgekrönten Bestsellerautor Andreas Brandhorst. Das Hamburger Start-up Harmony bringt ein neues Medikament auf den Markt: "Sleepless". Es bietet Menschen die Möglichkeit, teilweise oder ganz auf Schlaf zu verzichten, ohne müde zu werden. Sie gewinnen also Zeit, die sie bisher schlafend verbrachten, als Lebenszeit hinzu. Doch schon bald wird klar: Immer mehr Menschen leiden nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless an Psychosen und mentalen Veränderungen.

When a rare plant living within the most remote reaches of the Amazon rain forest is discovered to contain a key ingredient for a promising COVID-19 cure, a high-powered pharmacologist teams up with a renegade botanist to locate and retrieve specimens of the elusive plant. But the unlikely pair soon learns they are not the only ones who seek the valuable biological resource.

A Sulrano, nel cuore della Grecia Salentina, si muore ancora per il morso della taranta. Questo, almeno, il significato che i paesani danno alle morti che puntuali colpiscono due volte all'anno, nel corso delle celebrazioni che si concludono con la festa di San Paolo. Le autopsie confermano la presenza del veleno del ragno, ma Gelsomino è convinto che Sulrano sia solo un luogo dimenticato dallo scorrere del tempo e che, all'ombra dell'ignoranza dei suoi abitanti, qualcuno stia uccidendo indisturbato.

The year is 1999. Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young Scottish doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a senior house officer in the struggling east London hospital of St Luke’s. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, over-worked staff and underfunded wards a darker secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. Which of the medical professionals our protagonist has encountered is behind the murders? And can our unnamed narrator’s version of the events be trusted?

Julia began her career as an emergency physician but changed her chosen specialty after a tragic case. A young boy was brought to her ER with a severe allergic reaction and dies after she attempts a life-saving procedure.

Thirty-eight-year-old Vivian Long has suffered from agoraphobia (fear of public places, fear of leaving home) for all her adult life. She experiences a severe panic attack while driving home from the store and runs a red light, nearly crashing into a truck with her 14-year-old daughter, Faith, in the car. This is the catalyst to get long-needed help.

Patients are dying at St. Raphael's Hospital. That sucks. What’s worse? I think a doctor is behind the deaths. Me? I'm an X-ray tech. I can see through people. That’s cool, but is it enough to stop a psychotic neurosurgeon? Can I use my X-ray skills to learn the truth before it’s too late for me and my patients?

It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse—and then you pass it on. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges: small outbreaks at first, but then suddenly it's a plague—and only days later it is already killing people. In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even Lilly Slater, his partner and an eminent vaccinologist, can't work out what's happening.

Una organización secreta compuesta por políticos, miembros de la realeza y la élite financiera urde un plan misterioso llamado "Operación Inuit". El periodista Antonio Villegas descubre el plan y aparece muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Paralelamente, la joven doctora Eulalia Martín observa cómo aumentan estrepitosamente los casos de leucemia para los pacientes que consumen un medicamento sospechoso.

Karen has lived a life of disappointment and grief. When she finds an abandoned baby, she decides to keep her and name her Cari Moses. Cari becomes the epicenter of Karen’s life, but she is blind to the trail of devastation her actions leave in their wake. Karen’s personal grief and deception are inextricably linked to the activities of a serial killer who harbors a fascination with pregnancy. These players inhabit a dark world of contrasts, where the hopes and aspirations of youth become enmeshed in despair and depravity.

Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.