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Drie aidsonderzoekers staan op het punt een baanbrekend middel op de markt te brengen. Dan overlijdt een van hen onverwacht. Het lijkt zelfmoord, maar televisiejournalist Sara Lowell en haar man, basketballer Michael Silverman, waren bevriend met hem en geloven er niets van. Hun vermoedens worden bevestigd wanneer er patiënten - onder wie de zoon van een senator - in de kliniek worden vermoord. Een televisiedominee, Sara's vader en een hoge regeringsfunctionaris lijken uit op het dwarsbomen van het onderzoek. De situatie verergert wanneer Michael ziek wordt.

Als Medizinstudentin Quinn mit einem Filmriss erwacht, weiß sie, dass sie etwas Wichtiges vergessen hat. Da will der Geheimbund ausgerechnet Quinn in seine Reihen aufnehmen. Trotz ihrer Bedenken willigt sie ein, an den Aufnahmeprüfungen teilzunehmen. Denn Quinn braucht Antworten. Und so beginnt ein gefährliches Spiel.

A clergyman is murdered in his bed in the dead of night, triggering a chilling chain of events, each more bizarre and unnerving than the last – brutal killings, corpses vanishing, decomposed bodies digging their way out of graves. These shocking events seem unconnected but, at each scene, people report witnessing swarms of flies – hundreds, thousands, even millions of them.

Young doctor Edie Carter is bright, talented and ambitious. She is embarking on her dream career in anaesthetics and is engaged to a man who adores her. The one thing she doesn’t have is a childhood. Suffering from traumatic repression, large parts of her past are blank spaces. When an unidentified patient arrives in her intensive care unit with her name carved on his body, she realises that memories can refuse to stay buried. The man is unknown to Edie, but digging deeper, she discovers that the patient is Samuel Cox, a man imprisoned and brutalised over the last two decades.

Ein grausames Lied, dichter Nordseenebel und eine Tote ohne Spuren. Kommissar Friedhelm Stark und Kollegin Brigitte Heiden jagen eine Mörderin, die singt, bevor sie tötet. Doch der Fall reicht tiefer, als beide ahnen – und die nächste Strophe ist bereits angestimmt.

My life is hectic, juggling a demanding anesthesia residency, helping at my parents’ bubble tea shop, and fulfilling maid of honor duties at my sister’s upcoming wedding keep me endlessly busy. Amidst the whirlwind that is my life, I’ve been looking forward to the annual Planned Parenthood gala. It’s a chance to dress up and let loose with my best friend Dylan while supporting a worthy cause. But when Dylan isn’t able to attend, leaving me with an extra ticket, I’m left dateless.

The small college town of Stillwater has emptied for the winter holiday. There’s only a skeleton crew at the lab, and the steady stream of carcasses has slowed to a trickle. Josie expects it’ll be a nice respite after a few hectic months, so she doesn’t mind being at the lab despite her creepy coworker, Gerald, lurking in the halls. Anticipating a light caseload, she plans on spending her free time helping her friend, Laila, dodge the machinations of her overbearing parents.

A darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, illness, health-care malfeasance, and gynecological crime mixed with Oulipian madness. Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia—this city of hospitals—who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start a medication that may help, an eye exam is required and this leads to a nightmarish laser eye surgery.

Tod durch einen Sturz aus großer Höhe: Als erfahrene Pathologie-Assistentin weiß Cassie Raven, was sie erwartet, als sie den Leichensack öffnet. Trotzdem ist sie fassungslos, sobald sie die Tote sieht. Es gibt eine Abschieds-SMS, die nahelegt, dass Bronte mit dem Erfolgsdruck nicht umgehen konnte. Als dann auch noch DS Phyllida Flyte in den Fall verwickelt wird, die ebenfalls Zweifel hat, braucht Cassie gute Nerven und ihre besondere Gabe.

A young doctor gets caught up with the wrong woman and races to save lives and his career in this debut medical thriller. In a sleepy, small-town Arizona hospital, a thirteen-year-old boy lies in a coma after inexplicably suffering a cardiac arrest. His doctors are perplexed. Although emotionally disturbed Henry Rojelio was a frequent visitor to the emergency room—often for bouts of asthma, but usually just for attention—no one ever anticipated a battle with death.

Da un oscuro messaggio elettronico, Kay Scarpetta scopre di essere il bersaglio di un folle "untore" capace di diffondere le più orrende malattie attingendo a un sofisticato arsenale di armi batteriologiche. "Deadoc", così si fa chiamare, il "Dottor Morte", vuole contagiare l'umanità con un virus misterioso, peggiore del vaiolo.

A heartfelt Christmas romance by New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. After witnessing the dark side of New York City, detective Mark Kincaid returns to the small town of Whitehorn, looking to heal his troubled mind and find peace in his solitude. That’s why when he receives a...

Eine junge Frau gibt an, ihren Mann mit einer Bratpfanne erschlagen zu haben. Was zunächst nach einer simplen Beziehungstat aussieht, entpuppt sich schnell als mysteriöser Mordfall, denn Hauptkommissarin Amaryllis Winter stößt auf immer mehr Ungereimtheiten in der Aussage der Täterin. Als ein weiterer Mord geschieht wird klar, dass es noch zahlreiche weitere Opfer gibt – und noch sind nicht alle von ihnen tot.

A surgeon becomes an unwilling patient with his own fatal diagnosis. A shadowy transnational organization reaches out to him with an offer: to trade their experimental miracle cure for his services as a medical assassin. Unable to face oblivion, he accepts their offer and is deployed to perform one final house call. Follow Dr. Joe through training, fear, betrayal, and danger as he zeroes in on his target.

Valentina Colella è una biologa nutrizionista alle prime armi, il suo desiderio è quello di aiutare gli altri a ritrovare il giusto equilibrio nella vita. Tutto sembra procedere per il meglio fino al giorno in cui la parte più buia del passato di Valentina irrompe con prepotenza nel presente facendole vacillare le certezze che nel tempo era riuscita a costruirsi.

Dr. Evelyn Hart has spent her life untangling the darkest corners of people’s minds. A respected therapist, she thrives on structure, boundaries, and control. But when a patient arrives—one with no records, no name, and a knowledge of Evelyn’s buried past—her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. The woman knows secrets Evelyn has never spoken aloud. She recalls memories Evelyn has tried to erase. And with every session, the line between doctor and patient dissolves. And Evelyn can no longer trust the one person she has always relied on—herself.

Leo, famoso emulo di Houdini, scopre di avere un tumore in fase terminale. Per una serie di casualità, incontra sulla sua strada Irene, una terapeuta che usa l'ipnosi per fargli prendere consapevolezza e farlo dialogare con la sua morte. Con la donna, dotata anche di poteri sciamanici, Leo comincia un viaggio che lo catapulta dentro un hospice (una struttura per malati terminali).

At a secretive medical institute, cutting-edge stem cell therapies offer hope of reversing aging itself. But as powerful elites line up for a chance at immortality, the experimental treatments reveal chilling side effects. Alexa Hampton only wanted to extend her life. Now she's fighting to hold on to her memories, her identity, and her very humanity. Across the country, journalist Stone Aimes races to expose the truth behind the institute's astonishing breakthroughs before it's too late.

For A&E nurse Eden Grainger, Port Kara offers more than just a safe haven. It's a chance to break free from her ex Jesse and start a new life. Her focus now is solely on her four-year-old son, Teddie, whose autism means he sees the world in his own unique way.

Gibbs Storey is a woman no man can resist. When her comfortable life is shattered by the man she thought it was safe to give her heart to, the nightmare has only just begun. Psychologist Alan Gregory is used to dealing with nightmares. But a brutal, shocking confession locks him into darkness—and forces him to choose between saving himself and saving those who will otherwise end their days pleading for mercy at the hands of a vicious serial killer. What Alan can't see is that either choice might cost him his life.