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When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault...

When Malorie witnesses her best friend and roommate leave a campus bar with a mystery date driving a silver Mercedes, she suspects foul play, especially when Lani fails to return home the next day. Both women, med students in their final year at Elliott Bay University, have a lot riding on the line, but no one in her family is worried. When Malorie’s fears for her roommate deepen, she turns to her Uncle Wade, a sergeant at Seattle Homicide. Within 48 hours after Lani goes missing, the partial remains of a brutally murdered young woman wash up on Alki Beach....

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

She can feel what you’re feeling. Now someone is weaponizing it. Dr. Emily Harper experiences other people’s emotions as if they were her own. Fear arrives as physical pain. Grief settles behind her sternum. Other people’s attention becomes information she cannot turn off. Nine days ago, Emily exposed the conspiracy behind the terminal gene—a discovery powerful enough to change humanity’s understanding of death. The revelation cost her fiancé, Tyler, his life. Now the people who want to control her have learned how to turn the discovery against her.

Bestsellerautorin Andrea Wulf (»Alexander von Humboldt«) über das größte wissenschaftliche Abenteuer des 18. Jahrhunderts Die Geschichte des größten wissenschaftlichen Abenteuers im 18. Jahrhundert erzählt dieser Wissenschaftsthriller, der an jenen magischen Moment erinnert, als die...

Amerikanske Noah Gordons bestsellerroman om Rob J. Cole, der vokser op i det 11. århundredes sygdomshærgede London. Da hans far og mor dør, kommer han i lære hos en excentrisk badskær, med hvem han rejser land og rige rundt og sælger mirakelkure til de syge. Rob opdager, at han har talent for at helbrede og beslutter sig for at blive læge. Dette fører ham ud på en større rejse, som ender i Persien, hvor han kommer i lære hos den tids største healer.

They arrive alive. They always leave dead. But first, they give me their confessions. My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death. I know them as mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers — among other things. Here's what happens: they come on my floor, they give me their deathbed confession, and I help to make their death less painful.

Als ein brutaler Doppelmord die Stadt Sawmill, Oregon, erschüttert, benötigt das FBI Autumns Spezialkenntnisse. Die Tochter des getöteten Ehepaars, die gerade ihr eigenes Leben beginnen wollte, verschwand in der Tatnacht. Wird Autumn bald klar, welchen Plan der gesuchte Täter verfolgt: Er will Paare bestrafen, die ihr Ehegelübde brechen. Die Zahl der Opfer steigt, und der Killer geht immer größere Risiken ein. Was als Suche nach einem neunzehnjährigen Mädchen begann, wird zu einem Katz-und-Maus-Spiel.

Martin Sewell is not sick.At fifty-one, the divorced technical writer lives alone, works carefully, and has built a life that functions exactly as intended. Then a routine physical leads to a cardiology referral. The cardiologist finds nothing alarming—but recommends a pulmonologist. The...

A Woman's Quest to Become a Doctor in the 1890s Seventeen-year-old Fanny Wheeler-a bright, small-town girl from Kansas-cannot fathom a life of cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing. She needs more. She dreams of curing illness and preventing suffering. Without telling her family-or Matt, her...

To hide her darkest secret, a woman must submit to a killer’s twisted demands in a shocking novel of psychological suspense from bestselling author Elle Marr. Body broker Penny Lin keeps her distance from the past as she transports donated cadavers in Portland, Oregon, to laboratories...

Einem Team von ehrgeizigen Wissenschaftlern um den Milliardär John Hammond ist Sensationelles gelungen: Aus konservierter DNA haben sie 15 Saurierarten neu gezüchtet. Die Tiere sollen die Hauptattraktion in einem Freizeitpark auf einer Insel vor Costa Ricas Küste sein. Doch als ein Team von Paläontologen den Park vor der Eröffnung inspiziert, kommt es zur Katastrophe: Die Sicherheitszäune versagen und plötzlich bewegen sich die gefährlichen Echsen frei über die Insel. Menschen und Saurier liefern sich einen Kampf, den nur eine Art überleben kann …

Serena Indigo has the perfect life. A handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, a gated home, and a rewarding career as a physician, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. She's helped hundreds of people complete their families, which means all that more to her considering the lengths she went through for her own child. She even has a private practice with her best friend, Parker Sully, who is easy on the eyes and kinder on the soul. 

Nella carriera di un detective è impossibile dimenticare il disordinato, incessante movimento delle mosche necrofaghe su un cadavere umano: uno spettacolo orribile che prima o poi un poliziotto è costretto a contemplare. Adesso che le mosche Calliphora potrebbero essere un lontano ricordo per Kay Scarpetta che, lasciati Richmond e l'Istituto di medicina legale della Virginia, si è trasferita a Delray Beach, in Florida: un lavoro da consulente free lance, decisamente tranquillo. Ma gli spettri, si sa, ritornano.

Best friends from college. Plus-ones since med school. A chance for something new... Jace Crawford heals hearts for a living. More than that, medicine is his life. To become the leading cardiothoracic surgeon on the West Coast, he’s made sacrifices. No social life. He barely has time to sleep. Love? Forget about it. But when everything goes horribly wrong on his table, and he unexpectedly loses a patient, Jace is suspended from work. When a man has nothing but his job, what does he do when that’s gone?

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive...

Zwei Ärzteschicksale zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen. Leid wie Freude in einem Erlebnis verankert. Eine sehr intensive und dichte Lovestory. Sehr ernst und intim, philosophisch tiefschürfend und auch (natürlich!) tragisch. Aus der Erstfassung von Brochs Roman "Die Verzauberung" herausgebrochen.

Dr. Cyrus Darian has already lost everything once. He survived a year in the wilderness alone, learning to read a ridgeline, find water, disappear into the woods when he needed to. Portland should be easier. It isn't. The city is its own kind of jungle, one where surviving means learning a...

From Robin Cook, the ‘master of the medical thriller’ (The New York Times), fan favourites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced story about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as they know it. 'Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game' - Freida McFadden...

Fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill that like to listen to audiobooks like The Bird Box and The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to The Asylum Confessions. The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take. And now...they might just be playing with yours too.