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Los djos del centinela es una novela que narra el enfrentamiento del protagonista, el detective Juan Luis Ángeles, con la realidad que le toca vivir, tras ser dado de baja médica después de un accidente de tráfico. Durante este tiempo de inactividad comienza a experimentar una inquietante y misteriosa comunicación proveniente de los cuerpos sin vida. Tratando de librarse de ella, acaba por encontrarse envuelto en un juego macabro que necesita de su participación para desarrollarse.

When Diane fails to return from the village shop, police think she must have taken off with a secret lover, but Harper is convinced the online messages are not from her. In the same Hampshire village, plucky seven-year-old Clara has retreated into a make-believe world after an accident. Then she, too, goes missing. As Harper sets out on a desperate quest to find them both, he has no idea what he's up against. Could the threat be closer than he thinks? And is there a hidden message in Clara's fairytales?

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to...

In two previous New York Times bestselling novels, Jefferson Bass enthralled readers with ripped-from-the-headlines forensic cases, memorable characters, and plots that ""rival Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell"" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Drawing on research at the Body Farm—three acres...

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.

Tempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie nicht ernst.

Michael Palmer’s latest novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD—post traumatic stress disorder—spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his war buddy, Umberto Vasquez, who was plucked from the streets by the military four years ago for a secret mission and has not been seen since.

The Cure is a genre-bending thriller reminiscent of Michael Crichton or Douglas Preston, about the biological underpinnings of psychopathy. As a child, her family was taken from her by a serial killer. Erin Palmer is left orphaned and forever scarred. She dedicates her life to the study of psychopaths, conducting one-on-one interviews and tests with inmates. When Erin finally finishes years of exhaustive research, she finds herself in possession of the key to ending psychopathic behavior - in the species - forever. That' s when they try to kill her.

His name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain. But, Jessie's department...

Si me vieras paseando por la calle, probablemente pensarías que soy de lo más normal. Con mi impoluto uniforme blanco de enfermera y las manos meticulosamente lavadas, no habría nada en mí que te hiciera pensar que soy más que una buena ciudadana. Una buena enfermera. Pero las apariencias engañan. No deberías confiar en mí. Ni siquiera estoy segura de si yo puedo confiar en mí misma.

At one of the most advanced hospitals in the country, a revolutionary AI system called VARIANT is changing the face of radiology. Trained on vast troves of clinical data, it promises near-perfect diagnoses, lower costs, and faster care. To hospital leadership, it’s a miracle. To the public, it’s the future. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right. A veteran radiology technician begins noticing discrepancies—scans that don’t match symptoms, metadata that doesn’t line up, patients who deteriorate despite clean reports.

When the outbreak comes to a head, Laney is away from home. Chasing her dream of being the winner of a baking reality show, she is sequestered like a juror. No phone, no internet, no knowledge of what is happening. When the show evacuates all of the contestants, somehow Laney is left behind. Shut off from communication when the city loses power, Laney is clueless about what is happening and lacks the knowledge of the virus she is facing. Those infected experience a violent fever rage before the virus ultimately consumes them and takes their lives.

Maggie McCabe staat op het randje van de afgrond. Als zeer getalenteerd en gerenommeerd militair traumachirurg heeft ze gevaar nooit geschuwd en staat ze altijd op de plek waar ze de meeste impact kan maken. Haar wereld staat op zijn kop als haar medische bevoegdheid wordt ingetrokken na een reeks tragedies. Maggie wordt opgeroepen om aan de andere kant van de wereld een onconventionele ingreep uit te voeren op een van 's werelds mysterieuzte mannen. Ondanks haar twijfels neemt ze de klus aan, en komt ze terecht in een wereld van onbeschrijflijke rijkdom.

Mary Liddell, Tochter der Oppositionsführerin, wird entführt. Keine Spur, keine Forderung – die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. In ihrer Verzweiflung greift die Regierung zu fragwürdigen Mitteln: Ein Medium soll helfen. Währenddessen stößt Kommissarin Olivia Jenner auf eine bewusstlose Frau mit Amnesie – und Neuropsychologin Susanna Madueke erkennt schnell: Diese Unbekannte ist der Schlüssel zum Fall. Doch je näher die beiden Frauen der Wahrheit kommen, desto tiefer geraten sie in ein Netz aus Intrigen, Geheimdiensten und politischem Verrat. Wem kann man noch trauen, wenn es um alles geht?

In the heat and heart of New Orleans, secrets fester like wounds. Dr. Benjamin “Doc” Brash, a brilliant forensic pathologist haunted by personal tragedy, uncovers a chilling truth at a Tulane Medical School reunion: his former classmates are dying in suspicious, calculated ways. Thrust into a heart-pounding hunt for a killer, Doc must confront his past to save his future.

EMS Captain turned sleuth Brighid Doran suspects that all is not what it appears on the surface at The Branston Club—a swanky ski lodge being built in her rural Vermont town. While dodging danger and digging up dirt, Brighid faces the ire of small town politics, crooked cops, and an ever deepening hole of deceptions, all the while struggling to cope with the constant deployment of her wife Major Sarah (Sam) Ann Musgrave.

With the US in chaos, the government, ensconced in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, enacts Presidential Directive 40, declaring a national emergency. FEMA, now a militarized police force, rules over the remnants of society with an iron fist, establishing civilian work camps and enforcing martial law to maintain control.

When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient death of her best friend, she becomes determined to find answers—even if it leads her to a murderer, and even if confronting authority, using her wiles, and bending the rules to get justice risks her future in the FDA. To unravel the puzzle, Carrie assembles a team: some talented post-doctoral fellows, a quirky pharmacologist, an unctuous chemist, and a skeptical FBI agent that she can’t help her attraction for.

Juan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, uncovers what he believes to be the key to conquering humanity's susceptibility to cancer. But others are interested in using the new genetic algorithm for very different applications. Nate Carrington, an FBI forensic analyst, has been struggling with several cold cases when he's alerted to an incident at a nearby ranch. It's a case of a newborn calf who is found in the middle of a herd of dead cattle. It provides a single link to Nate's other cold cases....

College senior Lily Madison is on her own and desperate to pay for her last semester of school. With nowhere to turn, she makes the difficult decision to donate her eggs to a fertility clinic. Sam Parker is also a penniless student who supplements his tuition money by visiting a sperm bank. One day, Lily and Sam meet at the clinic and talk about their secret. Despite their obvious attraction, Lily and Sam go their separate ways.