Medical Crime Thrillers

Vor dem Haus von Maura Isles wird eine Frau erschossen - die der Pathologin bis aufs Haar gleicht! Detective Jane Rizzoli glaubt zunächst, ihre Kollegin selbst sei das Opfer, da kehrt Maura von einem Kongress zurück - erschöpft, aber lebendig. Bald erfährt Maura, dass es sich bei der Leiche um ihre Zwillingsschwester handelt - von deren Existenz sie nichts wusste.

Der dritte Fall für Rizzoli & Isles! In einem Kloster nahe Boston ist die Novizin Camille Maginnes brutal erschlagen worden. Bei der Autopsie findet die Pathologin Maura Isles heraus, dass die junge Frau kurze Zeit vor ihrem Tod entbunden haben muss - doch von dem Kind fehlt jede Spur. Dann wird eine zweite Frauenleiche gefunden, bei der Maura Anzeichen für eine frühere Lepra-Erkrankung feststellt. Detective Jane Rizzoli und Maura Isles vermuten eine Verbindung der beiden Fälle. Und die Entdeckung eines grausamen Geheimnisses gibt ihnen auf schreckliche Weise Recht.

Eine namenlose junge Frau in der Gerichtsmedizin ist für Maura Isles nichts Ungewöhnliches. Doch als die Pathologin den Leichensack öffnet, schlägt die scheinbar Tote plötzlich die Augen auf. Maura fährt die unterkühlte Frau sofort ins Krankenhaus. Doch kaum hat die Unbekannte sich erholt, tötet sie einen Wachmann und nimmt erst Maura und, nachdem diese fliehen kann, Patienten als Geiseln ...

Bei seinem letzten Einsatz ist der Forensiker David Hunter nur knapp dem Tode entronnen. Von einer vollständigen Genesung weit entfernt...

It feels like the safest place on earth. A family-friendly, floating palace. But, as Anya Crichton soon discovers, cruise ships aren't all that they seem...Statistics tell us that a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted on a cruise ship than on dry land. Customers aren't screened, so the ships are a haven for sex offenders and paedophiles. With no policing, and floating in international waters, sexual assaults and passengers 'disappearing' are uncommonly frequent.

A 13-year-old boy commits suicide. A 65-year-old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC Lucy Davies, to find answers....

Returning to the United States to finish up her Field Training Epidemiology Program at the CDC, Camille Carter gets a part time job helping her mentor and professor, Dr. Anderson. At first, Camille likes the attention that Dr. Anderson gives her, but soon she is drawn into a mystery that has her doubting her relationships and those that she holds in the highest of esteem.

Andi met Camilla at university. Instantly best friends, they shared everything together...until their long-planned graduation celebration ended in tragedy. Years later, Andi is living a seemingly perfect life on the rugged Cornish coast with her loving husband, happy children and dream home. Yet Andi is haunted by a secret she thought only she knew. Someone out there is bringing Andi's deepest fears to life. And she knows there's no escaping the past....

The second thrilling book in the London-set Dr Harry Kent series, the perfect mix of detective novel and medical drama. Susan Bayliss became notorious when she blew the whistle on her boss, a heart surgeon at a renowned children's hospital. She accused him of negligence, operations were stopped and an inquiry launched. In the end, she was the one suspended as a troublemaker. Now Dr Harry Kent, a medical examiner with the Met Police, has been called out to certify her suicide.

I cannot go on like this. I feel such a burden to you. You are young and can start again. You deserve that chance. By the time you read this, I will be dead. Do not grieve for me, for I am now without pain. Yours truly forever, Monica. Monica suffers from chronic neuropathic pain. Every second of her life is spent in agony, and she is coping with it the best she can. However, there are whole years of her life which are a blur to her. But when she finds a suicide note, written in her handwriting, she begins to question everything.

Tre racconti di Italo Svevo: L’assassinio di Via Belpoggio, pub-blicato nel 1890 sotto lo pseudonimo di Ettore Somigli; Vino ge-neroso, pubblicato nel 1925 e Lo specifico del dottor Menghi, pubblicato dopo la morte dell’Autore. Musica di Kevin Mac Leod.

Dive into the gripping world of Dr. Gabriel Santiago in "Fatal Precision ", where the sterile halls of a Miami hospital cloak a dark, pulsating heart of crime and conspiracy. Gabriel, once the epitome of medical prowess, now finds his scalpel dulled by routine and his spirit weary from the weight of unending emergency room nights. His life, shared with the enigmatic and vivacious Isabella, seems picture-perfect, yet beneath the surface, a tempest brews. When a mysterious patient, Victor Ruiz, stumbles into Gabriel's ER, battered and whispering of shadows, the doctor’s latent desire for ...

Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children’s court. A simple custody dispute. But nothing is ever simple. Malik claims his ex-wife, Jenna, is crazy and compulsive; Jenna claims Malik has been abusing their daughter, Chelsea. But what if all the claims are true? Or none? How can Natalie protect the child? And with both parents saying they’re desperate to keep their daughter safe - what if one of them is desperate enough to kill?