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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.

Aviana Lehrer thinks she has finally reached the pinnacle of her career as a hospital executive in Denver when her life shatters and she is sucked back into the oppressive family drama she escaped ten years earlier. In order to ensure that her mentally deteriorating father stays out of trouble, she gives up her dream of big-city hospital administration, moves back home to the town of Berndtbridge, Michigan, and takes an entry-level position as a home care nurse under the tutelage of a far-less-experienced mentor.

In the quiet rhythm of a family kitchen and the buzzing corridors of a pediatric hospital, Dr. Andrew Turbin begins to notice something unsettling: a growing number of children presenting with neurological symptoms that defy classification. Their scans don’t match known disorders. Their genetics offer no clear answers. And yet, across backgrounds and regions, the patterns echo. What begins as a collection of names and EEGs becomes an obsession. As Andrew digs deeper, joined by a brilliant field researcher from India, Dr. Meera Rao, and a trusted colleague in pediatric genetics, Dr.

Olivia thought she knew darkness. Her childhood. The years in care homes. The fear of abandonment. The fear of loss and failure. Now, as the door clangs shuts behind her – with her captor’s promise ringing in her ears that she’s ‘his’ forever – she realises that nowhere before has been as dark as her attic cell. But, under the eaves, as she shivers in the cold and recalls how she was taken, Olivia starts to make a plan. Because only she knows that the girl in the attic isn’t as innocent as her captor thinks… and that the deepest darkness might just be within her.

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.

He's served his time. As he strives to restore his life and career, will a high-level political conspiracy execute his death sentence? 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...

Eric can’t stop thinking about just how close he came to losing her—and he’s done playing this game, done watching Joe risk her life and he’s going to do whatever it takes to get the stubborn woman off the truck even if that means losing her forever. There was only one problem with that plan. Joe loved what she did and had absolutely no plans to quit. She doesn’t care what Eric says, she’s not going anywhere and the sooner he realized that, the sooner she could go back to pretending that everything was fine.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

A profound and engrossing medical drama by bestsellers Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright is back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital. This time, instead of dealing with patients' broken bodies, she's tackling their mental health issues, with...

Doctor Richard Keeton is the closest thing to a father figure I have ever known. He single-handedly guided my medical career with plans to appoint me as Chief of Surgery upon his retirement. So when he asks for a favor, who am I to say no—even if that favor means sabotaging his own daughter’s surgical career. It should have been easy. Mentor his young, entitled daughter through her residency. Put up with her spoiled demands and work her so hard she quits the field.

Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn't a doctor. The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable. But when Alex re-awakens, she's unharmed - and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. And then she meets the next victim.

Ein Lastwagen, drei Männer, ein Moment der Unachtsamkeit – von einer Sekunde auf die andere ist das Leben der MacBrides ein anderes. Einzig Sohn Matthew übersteht das Unglück mit schweren Beeinträchtigungen. Und doch findet er zielstrebig zurück nach Meredith Downs, zurück zu Mutter und Schwester, als das Schicksal ein zweites Mal zuschlägt. Und plötzlich steht nicht nur sein Leben auf dem Spiel, sondern seine Seele – und zwar auf eine Weise, die kaum jemand vorhersehen, geschweige denn hätte überleben können.

'WOWZA!!!!! Dark, gripping, tense, pulse pounding and hard to put down . . . a fantastic page turner!' - Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ __________ No. 1 New York Times bestseller! The second instalment of the Dr. Wren Muller series by co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid...

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.

Creía que nuestro matrimonio era perfecto. Mientras nuestros hijos duermen tranquilos en la habitación de al lado, leo los mensajes que Rob, mi marido, ha intercambiado con otra mujer. Sus promesas de escaparse juntos me llenan los ojos de lágrimas. Piensan que pueden deshacerse de mí así como así. Que pueden destrozar la vida que hemos construido juntos. Rob no sabe que yo he descubierto sus secretos y que ahora sé lo necesario para destruirlo. Puedo seguir interpretando a la esposa perfecta un poco más. Haré lo que sea para proteger mi vida y a mis hijos.