Forensic Mystery Fiction

Paramedic Anneliese Ashmore's routine shift takes a startling turn when she answers the call she was never meant to hear - a call to a crime scene where her sister, Sydney, is the victim of an apparent overdose suicide. The evidence says otherwise. In the midst of a heated divorce, motive implicates Sydney's soon-to-be ex-husband. While the police focus on the single lead, Ana makes her own discovery.

Paramedic Anneliese Ashmore wants nothing more than to move on - past her sister's death and the turbulence of her budding relationship with Dr. Jared Monroe - toward normalcy, acceptance, and maybe even marriage. But nothing is ever that easy. When two corpses connected to her sister's murder surface, their familiar manner of death begs the question whether the deaths are the wrapping up of unfinished business or an act of revenge.

A lavishly enriched blood supply piques Dr. Danny Tilson's interest as he performs a routine surgery on Varg Dagmar's brain. He soon discovers that it's not just his patient's cranial anatomy that's remarkable, but his superlative mental capabilities as well.

A young doctor gets caught up with the wrong woman and races to save lives and his career in this debut medical thriller. In a sleepy, small-town Arizona hospital, a thirteen-year-old boy lies in a coma after inexplicably suffering a cardiac arrest. His doctors are perplexed. Although emotionally disturbed Henry Rojelio was a frequent visitor to the emergency room—often for bouts of asthma, but usually just for attention—no one ever anticipated a battle with death.

The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue Devil. Nothing tangible points to foul play behind his fall from a cliff, but FBI agent John Lau, a relative of the coffee-growing family, has his suspicions. What he needs is evidence, and who better to provide it than his friend, anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective? Gideon is willing to help, but surprisingly - and suspiciously - both the police and the other family members refuse to okay an exhumation order.

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists," after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit. All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist - until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting of the august WAFA - the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists - in nearby Bend, Oregon. Like his fellow attendees, Gideon Oliver - the Skeleton Detective - is baffled.

A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night.

After her friend Dallas Jackson suffers a fatal complication during routine surgery, Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is determined to find out why. Dallas was like a father to Camille, and she feels she owes it to him and his family to get answers. Knowing she could lose her partnership at her high-profile law firm for undertaking such an investigation, Camille takes a huge risk and starts her own firm, determined to bring Dallas’ killer to justice.

A serendipitous crossing of paths between Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck job seeker, and Julie Forman, a personal trainer to an Olympic hopeful, forever changes the course of both women's lives. One winds up dead, and the other finds herself a fugitive, hiding behind lies as a cold-blooded killer methodically hunts her. Desperately trying to stay alive, the terrified woman enlists the help of Forensic Instincts, a rogue investigative team that clandestinely operates in the gray area between legal and illegal.

Der erste Thriller von Michael Tsokos basiert - wie könnte es anders sein - auf einem authentischen Fall und echten Ermittlungen. Sein Protagonist, Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel vom BKA, bekommt es mit einem europaweit agierenden Serienmörder zu tun: Im Umkreis europäischer Flughäfen geschehen Schlag auf Schlag Morde an Frauen, die der Täter mit einer mysteriösen Parole beschriftet. Durch eine spezielle DNA-Analyse gerät der Ex-Soldat Lars Moewig in Verdacht - ausgerechnet ein alter Kumpel des Rechtsmediziners aus gemeinsamen Bundeswehrzeiten, dem Abel so brutale Verbrechen niemals zugetraut hätte.

Kurz vor den Parlamentswahlen in Dänemark droht ein biologischer Anschlag auf das Folketing. Der Virologe Jacob Detlev wird hinzugezogen, um die Gefahr zu bewerten – und erkennt schnell: Das Virus ist kein Zufallsprodukt, sondern Teil eines perfiden Plans. Während sich Angriffe auf unschuldige Bürger und Bürgerinnen häufen und politische Unruhe das Land erschüttert, führen Spuren tief in die Geschichte – bis zurück zur Spanischen Grippe von 1918 – und gleichzeitig in die eiskalte Einöde von Svalbard.

Dr. Kate Turner is happy with her new life in Oak Falls in upstate New York. Working as a relief veterinarian at a small house-call practice, she truly enjoys helping her patients. All that changes when client Claire Birnham is found dead, an apparent suicide. A talented artist, Claire had everything to live for: a new job; a Manhattan apartment; her cairn terrier, Toto. As feisty as the Wizard of Oz's Toto, he and Claire were devoted to each other. Kate can't imagine Claire simply abandoning her pet. Was her death murder?

Da un oscuro messaggio elettronico, Kay Scarpetta scopre di essere il bersaglio di un folle "untore" capace di diffondere le più orrende malattie attingendo a un sofisticato arsenale di armi batteriologiche. "Deadoc", così si fa chiamare, il "Dottor Morte", vuole contagiare l'umanità con un virus misterioso, peggiore del vaiolo.

Tod durch einen Sturz aus großer Höhe: Als erfahrene Pathologie-Assistentin weiß Cassie Raven, was sie erwartet, als sie den Leichensack öffnet. Trotzdem ist sie fassungslos, sobald sie die Tote sieht. Es gibt eine Abschieds-SMS, die nahelegt, dass Bronte mit dem Erfolgsdruck nicht umgehen konnte. Als dann auch noch DS Phyllida Flyte in den Fall verwickelt wird, die ebenfalls Zweifel hat, braucht Cassie gute Nerven und ihre besondere Gabe.

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.

三个毫无头绪的重口味犯罪案件，看女法医章桐一刀一刀解剖凶手的扭曲心理，让真相逐一浮出水面……三個毫無頭緒的重口味犯罪案件，看女法醫章桐一刀一刀解剖兇手的扭曲心理，讓真相逐一浮出水面……

When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention - such as the fact that the two previous holders of the fellowship both met with mysterious ends.

A tsunami strikes a small island in the Pacific Ocean, leaving destruction, madness, and a deadly disease outbreak in its wake. Under quarantine conditions and without the help of modern equipment, epidemiologists Madeline and Quinn must make sense of the bizarre outbreak. What they discover and what they take home with them will change lives forever.

Mary and Senator Tad Williams pushed their son, Justin, to go on a date that went horribly wrong. Now, they try to figure out a way to help their son out of a coma. At almost $5,000 a day for ICU expenses, their insurance options are running out. Amber, Nick, and Jacob built a new immersive game system for the future. The only problem is, at $800 a day, no one can afford it. Dr. Dubois wrote a paper about how you might help a person out of a coma, but it was crushed under the might of the medical lobbyists on Capitol Hill.