Forensic Crime Thriller

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.

When bodies with unusual traits start showing up in the morgue, intern Taylor Lopez is alarmed enough to dig into the dead people's profiles. After discovering they were born at the same clinic two decades earlier, she investigates further and uncovers a shocking list. With the realization that more gender-fluid people are targeted for elimination, Taylor kicks her investigation into high gear. But Major Blackburn, the researcher who conducted the experiment, isn't about to let anything interfere with his plans.

Physician Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder while struggling with a painkiller habit. The little village of Kinnaven promises respite, but after Cathy attempts to get an opiate prescription, things don't go well. When she discovers the body of the local Dr Cosgrove, her sanctuary is shattered. Before long, Cathy is swept up in local gossip about the death.

It's a sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday. She's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. Is this a kids' game? And if so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet no one has heard or seen a thing.

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...

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 ...

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 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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Following the death of a patient in her care, Radha begins taking Valium to control her anxiety. She tells herself she’s fine, but as the pressures of being a perfect wife, mother, and daughter mount, her little habit spirals into addiction. When she’s forced to find a new source of pills, she stumbles into the clutches of Glasgow’s underworld. A mistake that could cost her everything. They give her an impossible choice: face personal and professional ruin or have blood on her hands by helping them deal. As she fights to protect all she holds dear, can she protect herself?

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.

When magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazza Clodio, it’s a coded warning to the authorities – a clear message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume, all too familiar with Rome’s criminal underclass, knows little of the Calabrian mafia currently under investigation by the magistrate.

தனிப்பட்ட செயலாளராக பணிபுரியும் சுஜாதா, நிறுவனத்தில் நடக்கும் பல விஷயங்களைக் கண்டு ஆச்சரியப்படுகிறார். சுஜாதா அவற்றை தனது காதலன் ராகவிடம் பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறார். வசுந்தராவின் விருந்தினர் மாளிகையின் குளியலறையில் மூன்று பேர் மர்மமான முறையில் கொலை செய்யப்பட்ட நிலையில் காணப்படுகிறார்கள். மூவரும் வசுந்தரா இதற்கு முன்பு சந்தித்திராத நபர்கள். அவர்களைக் கொன்றது யார்.....?

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?

Als junges Mädchen musste Tempe Brennan erleben, wie ihre beste Freundin Evangeline unter mysteriösen Umständen zum Vermisstenfall wurde.