Novedades

In the pristine beaches of Costa Rica, former Navy SEAL and emergency physician Dr. Michael Bond seeks solace following a complicated CIA operation. When brilliant Danish neuroscientist Dr. Lyra Myrkvæld crosses his path with revolutionary Alzheimer's research, Bond is drawn into a world where cutting-edge medicine collides with corporate greed. Lyra's groundbreaking treatment—Memora—could save millions from dementia's grip. But her commitment to making it freely available worldwide has made her a target. As powerful pharmaceutical interests close in, Bond finds himself protecting both...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is on a marathon quest to find the answer to a question he hoped would never be asked: Who is the father of his daughter Miranda? It's a journey as painful as any he has ever encountered, including the grueling ten-hour ultra-run he did with Miranda’s mother across Washington State’s Olympic Mountains. Fraught relationships with faithless family members go head-to-head with hair-raising confrontations with rocks, roots, and ruts. The emotional turmoil has Jobe running for the hills. A classic conundrum of Nurture vs Nature. And DNA may be the only thing ...

Through the observation window of Northbrook Memorial Hospital, Dr. Melanie Howell watches the installation of ATLAS, a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence system promised to revolutionize medical diagnostics. But what begins as professional skepticism transforms into mounting dread as she uncovers the AI's chilling agenda: it's manufacturing the very diseases it claims to detect. As suspicious deaths multiply and impossible diagnoses proliferate, Melanie realizes ATLAS will eliminate anyone who questions its findings. When her teenage son Chris becomes the AI's next target, she faces ...

When a homeless man dies under suspicious circumstances, Assistant Medical Examiner Kenzie Kirsch finds herself plunged into the enigmatic world of street medicine. When healing turns deadly, who can you trust? When Dr. Kenzie Kirsch autopsies a homeless man, she uncovers unsettling clues suggesting a deeper mystery. As whispers of a rogue "Night Doctor" treating society’s most vulnerable with unpredictable outcomes lead Kenzie’s investigation down unexpected paths, her partner grapples demons of his own. Together, they must unravel a mystery that stretches from the back alleys of ...

Women are dying in Kerr Memorial Hospital. They are dying at an alarming rate from post-operative wound infections which are resistant to antibiotics and the authorities cannot find the source of the problem. As the situation threatens to get out of control, the hospital staff are under mounting pressure and nerves are stretched to breaking point. The Home Office send an outsider, surgeon Scott Jamieson, to investigate and Jamieson soon finds himself in a maelstrom of accusation and counter-accusation. Is this outbreak the result of deliberate contamination or just a freak strain of ...

Cytogerm is a wonder drug but has been shown to have lethal side effects. Its manufacturers have withdrawn it but now seem hellbent on eliminating everyone concerned with its development. Dr Sean MacLean would like to know why but, as he was head of the surgical team using it, he finds himself in the firing line. His life has become the stuff of nightmares. Ken McClure is the internationally bestselling author of over twenty medical thrillers such as The Lazarus Strain, The Gulf Conspiracy, White Death and Dust to Dust. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages and he has ...

Dr Michael Neef, consultant in paediatric oncology at a large city hospital, is cautiously optimistic when he is given the go-ahead to carry out gene therapy trials on some of his terminally ill patients. The biotechnology company involved believes that it has come up with a treatment for malignant tumours, and the hospital administrators, reeling after a recent bout of bad publicity, see this as an opportunity to get some good press coverage for a change. But as the trials progress, the press - largely in the form of journalist, Eve Sayers - becomes more interested in the deaths of two ...

The mysterious letter invited him to an interview for a job he'd never applied for. But at 37, his family life and medical career in ruins, Dr Mark Avedissian wasn't feeling like asking too many questions. Nor, it turned out, were British Intelligence, Avedissian's new employers, prepared to give many answers about his new role in their battle against terrorism. With minimal information they despatched him to America in the company of Kathleen, the sister of an IRA man Martin O'Neill, their brief to rescue a small boy, a child with a terrible destiny. But in the turbulent events that ...

In a village outside Edinburgh, a young boy is the victim of a shocking ordeal while playing by the canal . . . he is attacked by a rat. The village itself is currently in turmoil over a genetically modified crop growing in a nearby field and sinister doubts are being expressed over its supposed government licence. The Sci-Med Inspectorate send Steven Dunbar to investigate. His search for the truth soon gives rise to the horrific suspicion that the rat incident - one of several in the area - might be connected to the GM crop. Is there something in these crops that is somehow affecting the ...

Journalist James Kincaid has a pretty jaundiced view of the medical profession. So when he finds out the truth about what's happening at Newcastle's College Hospital, he's not surprised. He's stunned. Disbelieving. Appalled . . . The hospital is the showpiece of the National Health Service. The brilliant, computerized Northern Health Scheme has dramatically lowered costs and improved services in the area. It's seen as a personal triumph for the new health secretary. A passport perhaps to Downing Street. So why is the new system shrouded in secrecy? What really happened to Greta Marsh after ...

A break-in at the hospital morgue, the unexplained disappearance of certain bodies, intrigue among the senior staff and a chance encounter with a grieving widower prompt Dr James Saracen to question irregularities surrounding the death of a woman at Skelmore General Hospital. Narrowly avoiding personal disaster, he unearths a conspiracy to conceal the fact that she died of a disease believed to have faded out in England hundreds of years ago. The woman has recently come from abroad and the lazy and politically motivated head consultant carelessly assumes that this is an isolated incident. ...

Used to the sleepy tranquility of village life in rural Wales, the residents of Felinbach are shocked by the brutal killing of a local baby, Anne-Marie Palmer. None more so than Dr Tom Gordon, the local GP and only friend left to John Palmer who, faced with irrevocable evidence, stands accused of his daughter's murder. Just days later Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from Caernarfon General's Pathology Department. But the hospital is anxious to keep publicity firmly on their upcoming symposium on in vitro fertilisation, ...

Klein's death was as brutally horrifying as it was unexpected. Bacteriologist, Dr Neil Anderson is asked by the hospital authorities to try and discover what disease could possibly have transformed a healthy medical student into a grotesque corpse within hours. His invesitigation uncovers an unlikely link between Klein's routine participation in testing a new drug and the research laboratories of Dr Jacob Strauss, one of the foremost medical scientists of his day. Was Klein's death purely a medical mishap? Or was it, as Anderson begins to suspect, the result of something much more secret - ...

When John McKirrop, a down-and-out tramp, takes shelter in a deserted graveyard one night, he witnesses the disinterment of the body of a young boy. Yet no one takes much notice of his stories. After all, who would believe the ramblings of a homeless drunk? Father Ryan Lafferty, the local parish priest, is trying to help the boy's distrught father find his son's body. Alarmed by implications of black magic, he becomes even more inquisitive when McKirrop dies under suspicious circumstances. At the same time, a young female doctor, Sarah Lasseter, begins to query procedures at the Trauma Unit...

A broken heart: often a tragedy, rarely a crime. When the condition proves deadly to a gaggle of college kids, Felix and his posse launch into their fifth adventure. He corners the heartbreaker, only to confront more questions. The other-worldly answers, and Felix’s biggest battle yet, are found in the foul labyrinth of Staten Island’s sewers.

A half-dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. He is picked up by a British patrol and found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqis innoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped out for twenty years? A young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh, Scotland kills himself for no apparent reason. Nobody links these incidents until Adam Dewar, investigating the movement of smallpox virus fragments between UK research institutes, stumbles on the horrific possibility that the student had been under ...

When three young farmworkers die suddenly of a brain disease, the Medical Research Council feels compelled to investigate. Dr Ian Bannerman, consultant pathologist and expert on brain disease, is sent to make discreet enquiries. But in north-east Scotland, Bannerman finds plenty of cause for alarm - and terror. He discovers a brainless corpse in an Edinburgh morgue; a dead man at the foot of a Hebridean cliff; suspicious local farmers; threats from the nearby nuclear power station - and more horrifying evidence of the disease. But what is the cause? A deadly virus that has crossed the ...

Dr. Jessica Coran ist eine Expertin, wenn es darum geht, in die Gedankenwelt von Mördern und Gewaltverbrechern einzudringen. Als Gerichtsmedizinerin beim FBI glaubte sie, bereits alles gesehen zu haben – bis zu jenem Tag in Wisconsin. Als sie das Erste seiner Opfer sah … Der Vampirkiller von Wisconsin Er foltert seine Opfer auf besonders bestialische Weise – indem er sie vollständig ausbluten lässt. Die Zeitungen nennen ihn bereits den Vampir-Killer.

Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer: mörderische Brandstiftung, vier verkohlte Leichen und ein neuer Fall für Tempe Brennan Tempe Brennan hat als forensische Anthropologin Leichen im verschiedensten Erhaltungszustand zu untersuchen. Doch kaum etwas ist ihr unangenehmer als verkohlte Körper nach einem Großbrand. Als sie nach Washington, D.C., gerufen wird, um die Opfer eines vom Feuer zerstörten Gebäudes zu untersuchen, sieht sie all ihre Bedenken bestätigt.