Medical Crime Thrillers

Stan's bankruptcy client, Maureen Thompson, is accused of her husband's murder. Her alleged motive is the proceeds of a large insurance policy on her husband's life that would cure her financial woes. Stan assigns the case to his partner, Paula Waters, who at first is excited about getting a new high-profile murder case but her excitement is soon dampened when she learns this isn't the first of Maureen Thompson's husbands to be hacked to death with an ice pick!

The second book of the bestselling series "Everything I love about the thriller genre: an unexpected plot twist, a wicked villain, and enough suspense to keep the pages turning." Editorial review After the disaster at Nightridge, Sheriff Norris Cunningham is trying to put his life back together. But an unexpected call from an almost forgotten comrade takes him to the dark valleys of Willow’s Heart into an investigation involving the ritualistic beheading of seven wolves. Is it a madman with a vendetta against animals? Is it a sign? Or a warning? The answers begin to come up when one ...

Evelyn is a surgical genius, my mentor, and my friend. But everything crumbles when she’s accused of trafficking a billionaire’s organs. A bloody letter arrives, and whispers of betrayal fill the air. I refuse to accept her guilt, so I plunge into a dark investigation. With each clue I uncover, I realize I’m chasing shadows. A name from a surgical list leads me to a nurse who doesn’t exist. The hospital footage is missing, and I sense a sinister force at work. As fake clues multiply, I’m haunted by the thought of being the next victim. Trust feels like poison—everyone around me ...

Factor-7 presents a terrifying but riveting scenario that's ripped from the headlines-and, if thing do not change, could very well be our new normal. Factor-7 is a bucking bronco ride of bio-weaponry, secrets, terror, betrayal, lies, infidelity, raw human emotions, and redeeming love. It's a completely gripping thriller that will keep you turning the pages and up all night. The life of Dr. Sam Hawkins, the head trauma surgeon at Galveston's St. Peter's Memorial Hospital, is changed forever by the cryptic words of his dying friend and the string of blatant cover-ups that follow his demise. ...

Rookie FBI Special Agent Elias Tucker is the son of Liberian immigrants and he's living his American Dream. He graduated from Brown and turned his attention to the law. His first assignment with the Bureau is the Phoenix satellite office in Cochise County, Arizona, just a short drive from the Mexican border. His work involves the cross-border drug trade, missing persons, and tracking foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally. He's a cultural fish out of water. Adjusting to his new life will take time, but time isn't something he has. A string of mysterious disappearances ...

Justice is worth the risk The death of a child is always heartbreaking, but what Kenzie Kirsch, assistant to the Medical Examiner, finds on her slab shakes her to the core. Kenzie can't help but feel a surge of anger and sadness as she examines the evidence. As she delves deeper into the case, Kenzie uncovers a tangled web of lies and deceit. But Kenzie is not one to back down from a challenge. She will not rest until the guilty are brought to justice. With each new piece of evidence, Kenzie's resolve grows. The truth must be revealed, no matter the cost to her professional career. If ...

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan lies in a hospital room in Carmel, California—but she has sworn to protect an innocent young girl, Cara Delaney, whose enemies are getting closer by the hour. Eve decides they must 'disappear' and so, after years of resistance, succumbs to John MacDuff's insistent plea to track down a treasure presumed buried in Scotland. The remote mountains should be a perfect hiding place, but they soon realize there is nowhere distant enough from those who are on their trail.

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...

A young man undergoes emergency surgery and later bleeds to death while recuperating at home. The surgeon, who was having an affair with his patient’s wife, injects rat poison in the IV so that his patient would die at home. The man’s widow files a claim for death benefits with his insurance company. However, the insurer suspects that either she murdered her husband by allowing him to overdose on blood thinners or he committed suicide, and thus, denies the claim application. Ten years earlier, the insurer defended against a claim that was filed when the man’s mother was murdered in ...

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 nature, in her ultimate act of irony, strikes Richard Powell, a cancer specialist, with malignant melanoma, a highly aggressive form of cancer, his wife, Terri devotes her life to curing the disease that ultimately kills her husband.

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.

An elite university. An abduction. An FBI investigation. In the not-so-distant future of 2033, a gripping medical mystery unfolds in the heart of Silicon Valley. Dr. Frida Ending, a young medical insurance agent, is forcibly abducted and disappears without a trace. FBI special agent Angus Weber and CIA operative Dr. Annya Segond launch an investigation that leads them to the hospital of Silicon Valley University of Evolutionary Computation (SUEC), where every pending insurance claim for children with cancer has been suddenly approved. Who is behind this? Is Frida a victim or a villain? The ...

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than 14 years old, and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Jean Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something. It's not Tempe's case; she's overwhelmed with more urgent work in the lab. But the nagging in her subconscious won't let up.

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...

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.

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.

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.....?