Forensic Crime Mystery

Michael Kough is an Australian virologist and degenerate loser who accidentally discovers a cure for the common cold. And a vaccine to neutralize all the world’s deadly viruses. He becomes the richest man in the world. And the most hunted. Dictators, multi-national drug companies and global criminal gangs circle like vultures for a chance to steal the secret to his Holy Grail of virus control.

Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead. Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad, soon finds himself sharing an office with the stone wife - until he is ejected. To his extreme annoyance the lump of stone appears to exert a malign influence over him and his investigation.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.

It's been 101 days since Felix Hoffmann's girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. With the Iraq War all but begun, the story coming from Baghdad is that the young woman orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her. But a devastated Felix, doctor at South Berlin Hospital, cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act, and certain clues - as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies - raise the good doctor's suspicions.

Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the state of Quebec, is abruptly recalled from a course she is teaching at Quantico for a gruesome duty. A biker war is raging in Quebec and two of its foot soldiers have blown themselves up. The only person qualified to make sense of what remains is Tempe. Like many in the region, she cares little what les motards, the bikers, do to each other. Until the body of a nine-year-old girl is wheeled into the morgue, slain by biker crossfire.

Habían descubierto el arma definitiva. A petición de cualquier cliente que lo pudiese pagar, podían fabricar un virus letal capaz de eliminar solo a la etnia seleccionada... La más novedosa tecnología farmacéutica al servicio de la muerte. Intriga, suspense, asesinatos, en la carrera de venderla al mejor postor. Sin quererlo Yoko Yoshida, se había visto envuelta en la conspiración. Para enfrentarse a ella solicitó la ayuda de la única persona a la que confiaría su vida: Sergio.

Someone...or something...is stalking the citizens of Miami. First, the chief of the triage morgue at Dade County Hospital is strangled; the skulls of two homeless men are crushed under a highway overpass, followed by drug dealers, frat boys, and workers at a local diner brutally bludgeoned. Detectives Issy Ruiz and Andy Molinaro can find no motive, no clues, and no links among the victims, just a description of four muscular young men with fixed eyes and stiff gaits as though animated by some otherworldly force.

Ominöse Leichenteile tauchen in Kiel auf - ein neuer brisanter Fall für Paul Herzfeld, authentisch und atemberaubend spannend erzählt von Michael Tsokos, Deutschlands bekanntestem Rechtsmediziner. In einem privaten medizinischen Lehrinstitut werden Leichenteile beschlagnahmt. Es besteht der Verdacht der illegalen Beschaffung. In der Kieler Rechtsmedizin erkennt Paul Herzfeld auf einem der beschlagnahmten Arme ein auffälliges Nazi-Tattoo wieder: eine schwarze Sonne. Der versierte Rechtsmediziner beweist anhand von DNA-Untersuchung und Blutprobenvergleich, dass er den Mann, zu dem dieser Arm gehört, schon einmal seziert hat.

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves on the region's disaster response team. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one. Putting normal life on hold, she and her colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims. A chance discovery concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site.

Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Then her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage girl shows up at her office, claiming to be Courtney Johnson - a child who went missing in Nottingham over 15 years ago - but refusing to allow Sian to test her DNA. Wary but intrigued, Sian reluctantly revives the undercover skills she learned in her days in the police force and begins investigating. But revisiting the past has consequences.

When Gabe McAllister, decorated former Marine and respected Texas State Trooper, walked out of his condo in West Houston on a Tuesday morning to head to a meeting of the newly formed task force of the DEA, Texas State Police and Border Patrol, he found five Houston cops waiting to collar him for the rape of 6-year-old Annie Bridges. His implicit trust in the fairness of the justice system shattered, McAllister lands in the Huntsville prison, sentenced to three counts of 20-to-life sentences.

Ally Linden walks into her office early one morning, only to be told she hasn’t worked there in five years. Although she pieces together the years she has forgotten, the last two days remain in darkness. Ally went into a fugue state - but what was so traumatic that it made her disconnect from her whole life? And why does she feel as if someone is trying to keep her memories buried?

Der neue Weltbestseller von Tess Gerritsen. Eine ägyptische Mumie, die keine ist, ein Schrumpfkopf und eine Moorleiche im Kofferraum, ein komplizierter Fall für Detective Jane Rizzoli und Pathologin Maura Isles...

Wo ist Maura Isles? In einem Dorf in den tief verschneiten Bergen Wyomings ist etwas Schreckliches passiert. Die Fenster der Häuser sind offen, das Essen steht noch auf den Tischen, doch keine Menschenseele ist zu sehen. An diesem verlassenen Ort haben Maura Isles und ihre Freunde während eines Schneesturms Zuflucht gesucht. Und sind seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Nur ein einziger Fußabdruck zeigt, sie waren nicht allein in diesem einsamen Tal.

Eine Tote taucht auf, deren Leiche offensichtlich für ein teuflisches Ritual missbraucht wurde. Als die ermittelnde Polizistin stirbt, ist auch ihr Körper mit Satansmalen übersät...

Former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner has utilized his 36 years of law enforcement and investigative experience in writing fictional crime thrillers for readers to enjoy. This book contains three separate novellas, each providing drama, suspense, mystery, and at times intense action. Follow along as the police investigate and attempt to unravel the murders.In the first story, police must deal with a serial killer who has reappeared after a two-year absence to terrorize some of Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods. Frustrating police is the fact that the killer leaves a calling card ...

Vor diesem Killer ist man nirgends sicher ... Sie sind die einzigen Überlebenden schrecklicher Familientragödien. Erst wurden ihre Eltern und dann obendrein die Pflegefamilien brutal er mordet...

What if you saw something? Something heinous. Something the police have no clue about, but should? Kyra knows she's seen the killer. Actually seen him walking around the Slip Mire before and after his kills. She needs to get her information to the cops. She kissed Det. Gabe Nichols in an alley weeks before, believing they'd never cross paths again. The idea of seeing him again puts butterflies in her stomach. But not sharing her information means she'll have blood on her hands when the killer strikes again. Gabe has his own problems. Dealing with the anniversary of his brother's ...

Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala, where her skills will be tested to the limit. It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and children. No records were kept. Families and neighbors refer to their lost members as "the disappeared". The bodies are said to lie in a mass grave.

He sees inside the minds of killers. Can he face a shocking truth before a vengeful psychopath mutilates more victims? As a forensic psychiatrist and famous TV personality, Dr. Colin Powers seems unstoppable. Despite his show’s focus on true crime, he yearns for the challenge of solving real cases. But his wish sours when he receives an anonymous letter containing images of horrifically mutilated victims...