Medical Mysteries Fiction

En una plaza pública de Arabia Saudí, un hombre es ajusticiado bajo un sol abrasador y un chico observa impotente entre la muchedumbre: es su hijo. En un lúgubre hotel de Manhattan, aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer joven y todos los indicios para identificarla han sido eliminados minuciosamente. Una línea invisible conecta todos estos hechos, dibujando un plan perfecto para cometer un monstruoso crimen contra la humanidad, y la única persona capaz de impedirlo es un ex agente que huye de su pasado y ha borrado su identidad: ahora sólo responde al nombre de Pilgrim.

Jérémy Bouscarat est infirmier à l'hôpital Lariboisière. Une nuit, alors qu'il fume devant les urgences, une voiture pile face à lui. Au volant, une femme en état de choc ; à l'arrière, deux enfants blessés par balle. Lorsque le commandant Alexane Laroche arrive sur place, la mère est introuvable. Pourquoi s'est-elle évaporée dans la nuit ? Pour la flic démarre une course contre la montre ; pour l'infirmier, une quête obsessionnelle qui le transformera à jamais. Qui des deux aura le fin mot de l'histoire ?

"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career - working public relations for the dean - takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old, are unearthed on the campus. Out of the college’s dark past, these bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.

At a secretive medical institute, cutting-edge stem cell therapies offer hope of reversing aging itself. But as powerful elites line up for a chance at immortality, the experimental treatments reveal chilling side effects. Alexa Hampton only wanted to extend her life. Now she's fighting to hold on to her memories, her identity, and her very humanity. Across the country, journalist Stone Aimes races to expose the truth behind the institute's astonishing breakthroughs before it's too late.

El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuando descubre que el paciente que debe morir para que su hija pueda vivir no es otro que el presidente de Los Estados Unidos. Con su maestría habitual en la literatura de intriga, Juan Gómez-Jurado atrapa al oyente irremediablemente.

The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community in this "engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel" from the award-winning author of The Turnout and Dare Me (Jodi Picoult). The Nash family is close-knit...

Vielleicht ist es nächsten Samstag schon zu spät... Dr. Kay Scarpetta, seit Kurzem Leiterin der Gerichtsmedizin in Richmond, Virginia, erhält frühmorgens einen Anruf von Sergeant Pete Marino von der Mordkommission: "Mr. Nobody" hat wieder zugeschlagen, ein grausamer Serienkiller, der Frauen erwürgt – immer am Samstagmorgen und ohne jedes erkennbare Motiv. Auch scheint es zwischen den Opfern keine Verbindung zu geben. Scarpetta greift bei ihren Ermittlungen auf die neuesten Erkenntnisse der forensischen Forschung zurück.

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.

After surviving a terror attack that took her husband, Lucy is trying to rebuild her life for her two teenage children. She makes the decision to move them all to an off-grid mountain community. Away from the insanity their life had become, their temporary solution becomes a permanent way of living. Lucy believes she is giving her kids the perfect life, and a way of living that they truly want. Until the day her son, Vincent, decides to leave without saying a word. Lucy and her daughter, Avery, leave their secluded life to search for him in the nearby town.

In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping...

Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit 64 nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows the young nurses serving near the front lines will face a challenging situation, but nothing could have prepared her for the difficulties that await when they arrive at British Base Hospital 12 in Rouen, France. The primitive conditions, a convoluted supply system, and horrific battle wounds are enough to discourage the most hardened nurses, and Julia can do nothing but lead by example.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless...

Childbirth is hard enough under even the best circumstances. But when baby Chase suffers a catastrophic brain injury at birth, his parents are drawn into a hellish whirlwind of medical and legal drama. Thaddeus Murfee, a resourceful, young lawyer, files a malpractice lawsuit on their behalf, but there’s one major problem: the hospital has forged medical records to cover up their mistake. When the case takes an unexpected twist, can Thad stay one step ahead?

It wasn’t until people started shooting at her that Eve Salutem had an inkling she was anything other than an elementary school teacher suffering from a rare form of cancer. Discovering she was a walking source of the vaccine for lethal bioweapons and that her previous 27 years were based on lies, lies, and more lies shattered her fragile world and threatened her sanity.

Чикаго потрясает страшное происшествие: прямо со школьного концерта пропадает девочка, а на месте похищения находят белую розу. У ФБР ровно семь дней, чтобы на этот раз предотвратить трагедию. Расследование поручено агенту Бри Адамс. Нейтану меньше всего на свете хочется ввязываться в это дело, но он чувствует, что нужен Бри, и это заставляет его согласиться.

The two crime experts are enlisted by legendary rock star Billy Diamond to find his missing daughter. A level-headed student at Yale, Devon left six months earlier with her boyfriend, Carlos, for a career development retreat in Nevada. Her calls and notes became less frequent until they stopped. Billy wanted to give his daughter space—but after learning Carlos' body was found a few miles upstream from the ranch, he needs answers.

When a top research institute is broken into and vandalised, the police at first believe that animal-rights activists took things a step too far. Then they discover one of the institute's eminent scientists, Tim Devon, brutally murdered. Dr. Steven Dunbar, working for an elite government agency, is sent to investigate. A few of the dead scientist's research animals have also gone missing, and top-level authorities are strangely obsessed with hunting down and killing the purportedly harmless animals.

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the-headlines medical thriller, as medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises—and deadly risks—of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy... Medical examiners...

New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton return in this stunning novel from the “master of the medical thriller” (New York Times)—a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor’s dangerous downward spiral. After a rough climb to the top, doctor and...

In this chilling novel from the bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), NYC medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism—and a sinister global conspiracy. Devastated by the news that...