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Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura.

PECCAVI. The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell, Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newlywed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband's call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O'Hara from the U.S. State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah's husband of two months, died in a hotel fire...in Berlin.

After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie’s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace...until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Rumor has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. One night, Ava confronts an apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her into his world - and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain’s ghostly visits.

It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks.

Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. She recognizes the danger, but her search for the truth is the only thing that matters.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed “Madam X,” the mummy–to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact–seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim.

A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages...one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.

Jahr für Jahr kommen die Sommergäste nach Purity und beziehen die imposanten Ferienhäuser am Maiden Pond – misstrauisch beäugt von den Anwohnern, die den reichen Großstädtern nicht über den Weg trauen. Als eines Tages ein Mädchen aus einer der Urlauberfamilien verschwindet und kurz darauf menschliche Überreste aus dem See geborgen werden, spitzen sich die Ereignisse in der Kleinstadt zu. Die Polizei ermittelt erfolglos – bis Maggie Bird und der "Martini-Club" ihre Expertise zur Verfügung stellen. Der Club mag zwar aus Spionen im Ruhestand bestehen, doch das Ermitteln verlernt man nie.

Forensic pathologist Maura Isles unzips a body bag and gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. The woman is rushed to hospital, where she murders a guard and siezes hostages, including a heavily pregnant Detective Jane Rizzoli. No one knows who this woman is or what she wants. Only Jane, trapped with the madwoman, can solve the mystery. If she survives the night.

Maggie Bird, ex-agente secreta da CIA, escolheu um pequeno vilarejo no Maine para viver a aposentadoria e finalmente deixar o doloroso passado para trás. Muitos anos antes, ela participou de uma missão que acabou em tragédia, fazendo com que perdesse tudo o que importava. Atualmente, Maggie leva uma rotina tranquila em sua fazenda, tentando enterrar as memórias da antiga vida. Mas quando um corpo surge misteriosamente em sua garagem, ela percebe que se trata de uma mensagem de velhos inimigos que não a esqueceram.

Über die sechzig jährige Maggie Bird kann man einiges erzählen: Sie züchtet Hühner, ist eine zuvorkommende Nachbarin und lebt ein ruhiges Leben im idyllischen Purity in Maine. Wöchentlich besucht sie einen Buchclub, wo sie mit ihren Freunden Martinis trinkt. Als eines Tages eine tote Frau in ihrer Auffahrt liegt, weiß Maggie: Dies ist eine Nachricht aus der "guten alten Zeit". Vor über fünfzehn Jahren arbeitete sie für die CIA, und nun scheint die Vergangenheit sie eingeholt zu haben.

Dr. Toby Harper works the night shift in an emergency room. She spends her daytime hours alone with her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. When elderly Alzheimer's patients from the same retirement home start dying mysteriously, Toby is the only one suspicious enough to investigate. As a result, she finds herself, her mother, and her own sanity at risk.

Two nuns are brutally attacked within the walls of their convent. There seems to be no shred of motive. But during the autopsy Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles discovers something entirely unexpected. And when a second heavily mutilated body is found and linked to the case, she and Detective Jane Rizzoli find themselves in the midst of a terrifying investigation that seems to implicate everyone. Because who can really say they’re free from sin?

Pathologist Maura Isles has dissected her fair share of corpses. But this time, it's different, because the victim looks exactly like her. Detective Jane Rizzoli is assigned to investigate and finds herself tracking a twisted killer across the country. To catch him, Maura is forced to delve into a dark and dangerous family history - her own. Blood ties are the hardest to escape.

Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city - until a deadly epidemic threatens to destroy everyone she loves.

PECCAVI. The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell, Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

Da una regina del thriller un romanzo che mantiene alta la tensione fino all’ultimo, incredibile colpo di scena. Maura Isles, medico legale di Boston, lavora a contatto con la morte e vede cadaveri tutti i giorni, gran parte dei quali vittime di sanguinosi delitti. Mai però prima d’ora aveva sentito il sangue gelarsi nelle vene, mai prima d’ora l’espressione «sosia» le era parsa tanto inquietante e reale, perché mai prima d’ora sul tavolo autoptico aveva visto il suo stesso corpo senza vita...

Un asesino silencioso se desliza en las casas de las mujeres y entra en las habitaciones mientras ellas duermen. La precisión de las heridas que les inflige sugiere que es un experto en medicina, por lo que los diarios de Boston y los atemorizados lectores comienzan a llamarlo "el cirujano". La única clave de que dispone la policía es la doctora Catherine Cordell, víctima hace dos años de un crimen muy parecido. Ahora ella esconde su temor al contacto con otras personas bajo un exterior frío y elegante, y una bien ganada reputación como cirujana de primer nivel.

Um grupo de turistas desembarca em Botsuana para um safári, sem imaginar que entre eles há um assassino cruel, um predador que, ao término de uma semana, transforma uma aventura na selva em um pesadelo. O que ele não sabe é que, nessa caçada humana, uma de suas presas consegue escapar. Seis anos depois, um homem é pendurado e eviscerado em sua própria casa em Boston.