Forensic Crime Thriller

It's been five years since Paul Connert's fiancée died of a drug overdose and he's never forgiven himself for not trying harder to help. Now he plans to atone. He seeks a woman who reminds him of his lost love and fantasizes about getting her into rehab, even if by force. But then he meets the feisty, alcoholic, Vika Koslava, a beautiful Russian model who was sent on an erotic website assignment to Santa Barbara with her heroin-addicted sister. When her sister goes missing, Vika is left homeless.

Il corpo carbonizzato di un poliziotto - sottoposto a inchiesta all'interno del dipartimento - viene trovato nella sua auto, sul litorale di Southend, nell'Essex. Una ragazza fragile, abbandonata anche dai servizi sociali, cerca di scoprire la verità sulla morte improvvisa della sua migliore amica. Il sergente Frank Pearson e l'agente Cat Russell della squadra di polizia investigativa dell'Essex hanno l'incarico di risolvere il mistero che circonda la morte del loro collega, ma subiscono la forte pressione di chi non vuole danneggiare la reputazione del dipartimento.

An ambitious and sharp-witted clinical psychiatrist turns detective when one of her patients comes under investigation for a series of brutal murders - is she a psychopath or a victim herself? Brilliant psychiatric resident Dr. Kim Patterson has one major flaw: She is too committed to her patients. Her willingness to break the rules and use unconventional methods to help her patients heal has already gotten her thrown out of several hospitals. And when Scarlett Hascall is brought into the psychiatric ward, Kim can't resist getting involved.

When a body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute - but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled. In the ensuing investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen and townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide?

Kristen Kroiter was 16, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them? That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn’t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.

Die begabte Medizinwissenschaftlerin Emma Watson forscht auf einer Weltraumstation und entdeckt seltsame Zellen im All...

When a priest is brutally gunned down in front of St. Jerome's Chinese-American Catholic Church, Father Luis Chavez is asked by the archdiocese to lead an inquiry. With the confessed killer already in custody, it looks like an open-and-shut case. That is, until Father Chavez digs deeper. As the killer's confession unravels, Father Chavez teams up with Deputy District Attorney Michael Story to get to the bottom of it. Together, they discover a conspiracy leading back to one of the world's oldest criminal organizations.

When an elderly woman is found dead at her home, newly fledged DC Kirsty Wilson is called to the scene. It appears that the woman had a mysterious visitor in the early hours of that morning - someone dressed as a carer but with much darker intentions. It soon becomes obvious that this was not death by natural causes; in fact it was murder.

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.

When her daughter, Rachael, working a summer job at the Ritz-Carlton, calls Cleveland forensic scientist Theresa MacLean to say a murder has just occurred at the hotel, Theresa knows she's stepping into a forensic mess. A local criminal-defense attorney has been bound and beaten to death. The victim was attending a convention for criminal-defense attorneys, which means the list of suspects could stretch a mile long.

In Boston wird die Leiche eines Tierpräparators gefunden - ausgeweidet wie eines seiner Beutetiere. Es scheint eine mysteriöse Verbindung zu einem Jahre zurückliegenden Vorfall in Afrika zu geben, wo die Teilnehmer einer Safari auf ungeklärte Weise verschwanden. Jane Rizzoli reist nach Botswana, um dem heimtückischen Mörder auf die Spur zu kommen

Haunted by a brutal childhood, Dr. Claire Waters finds solace in helping other survivors of abuse. Her favorite patient, Rosa Sanchez, is finally getting her life together after being victimized for years. So it's a shock when Rosa is handcuffed and led away by a man Claire assumes is law enforcement. But as she soon realizes, Rosa has been abducted. Claire turns to her friend, Nick Lawler, a homicide detective in the NYPD. Nick will have to risk his career to find Rosa and track down a deranged criminal who reduces his victims to nothing but bones.

A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room, even though he isn't diabetic. An ulcer patient dies of shock after receiving a transfusion of the wrong blood type. A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of medication and suffers a fatal heart attack. Brain surgeon Dr. Tyler Matthews suspects that something is seriously wrong with the hospital's new "Med-InDx" computerized medical record system. But he doesn't suspect that there's something murderously wrong with it.

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...

Forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden of the HBO series Autopsy and trial attorney and legal commentator Linda Kenney Baden bring us a chilling new thriller featuring their crack crime-fighting duo: Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and top litigator Manny Manfreda, who is as lovely (and accessorized) as she is gutsy. The case begins with New York City on high alert for a most bizarre serial killer - a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood.

Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There’s just one problem: the people in her life won’t let her go. When Jenny is viciously stabbed and left for dead, it’s her mother who finds Jenny’s body underneath the pines outside their home in the upscale town of Lewisboro, New York. State police investigator Susan Adler and her consultant partner Liam Dwyer are called to investigate the crime scene, but they sense something’s off right away. The clues contradict the story Jenny’s parents keep telling.

On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee - yet the damage to the building itself was minimal. An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team - but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders?

As a seasoned trauma anesthesiologist in Seattle, Doctor Jude Rosen takes his coffee black with gangland shootouts and vehicular dismemberment. When his best friend, Farrah Abdi, suffers from breast cancer, Jude sheds the carefully cultivated safeguards of a family man to help his dying friend. After being slapped with a malpractice suit and having no recourse to provide for his daughters, Jude embraces what he thought he’d abandoned: his haunted past.

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.

Liverpool, 1855. Ada Houston is alone. Her grandfather has recently passed away, and her brother is missing, last seen working on the Liverpool docks. Everyone assumes him to be dead. But she will not give up hope. Ada's determined search takes her to the Crimea, where she joins the team of Florence Nightingale's nurses. She may have set off looking for her brother, but along the way Ada finds friends, romance and a new purpose in her own life in the most troubling and difficult of places.