Medical Mystery Thriller

Андрей Круз - российский писатель, автор нескольких циклов и отдельных романов в жанре боевой фантастики. Своим творчеством вызвал волну подражателей, в числе которых те, чьи сюжеты разворачиваются в мирах, придуманных непосредственно им. "Эпоха мёртвых" - один из самых известных циклов Андрея Круза.

Eine weltweite Pandemie ist ausgebrochen, und keiner ist davor gefeit: Alle Infizierten zeigen zunächst Markierungen auf der Haut, bevor sie urplötzlich in Flammen aufgehen. Die USA liegt in Schutt und Asche, und inmitten des Chaos versucht die Krankenschwester Harper Grayson, sich und ihr ungeborenes Kind zu schützen. Doch dann zeigt auch sie die ersten Symptome. Jetzt kann sie nur noch der "Fireman" retten.

Die Journalistin Sophia erhält einen scheinbar harmlosen Auftrag: Für den Biotechnologie-Konzern Futuria soll sie ein Porträt für die Firmengeschichte verfassen. Futuria wird wegen seiner Verdienste um die gentechnische Heilung von Krankheiten wie Krebs und der Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Lebensverlängerung geschätzt. Doch je tiefer Sophia gräbt, desto unheimlicher wird ihr das Unternehmen, dessen Gründer, der legendäre Salomon Leclerq, seit einigen Jahren verschwunden ist.

So what if your medical skills are the best in the world? If you can’t live past 20, your just a lousy show off. Let’s watch as the perverse ghost doctor make a name for himself by defeating the world’s greatest medical giants in his efforts to revitalize Chinese medicine.

In this vintage locked-room murder-mystery, Nurse Sarah Keate is assigned to the at-home care of a man who recently had a stroke. While he is unconscious, on a dark and stormy night, a murder takes place in his bedroom. With family members and potential heirs confined to the house for several days, additional murders occur while the nurse and detective Lance O’Leary, work on solving the case.

Doctor Gideon Teague is ready to call it quits as he nears the end of his medical training. Years of continuous hard work and the specter of tragedy following him from his time as a Marine have taken a heavy toll and his physical and emotional reserves are spent. In the nick of time, an opportunity for a mission trip to Honduras seems like just the ticket to rekindle a long dead spark of passion and adventure; and to escape the day-to-day drudgery of his life as a resident physician.

Nella carriera di un detective è impossibile dimenticare il disordinato, incessante movimento delle mosche necrofaghe su un cadavere umano: uno spettacolo orribile che prima o poi un poliziotto è costretto a contemplare. Adesso che le mosche Calliphora potrebbero essere un lontano ricordo per Kay Scarpetta che, lasciati Richmond e l'Istituto di medicina legale della Virginia, si è trasferita a Delray Beach, in Florida: un lavoro da consulente free lance, decisamente tranquillo. Ma gli spettri, si sa, ritornano.

Politisch hochbrisant. Medizinisch unberechenbar. Ökologisch katastrophal. Der allererste Thriller über eine der gewaltigsten Bedrohungen unserer Zeit: Mikroplastik. Es ist überall. Es ist in uns. Und es ist tödlich. Im Mittelmeer verschwindet ein Frachtschiff mit unbekannter Ladung. Enthüllungen über die Auswirkungen der Plastikkatastrophe erschüttern die Welt. Düstere Geschäfte finden auf höchster politischer Ebene statt. Und zeitgleich kämpft in der Hamburger Uniklinik ein Kind ums Überleben.

Dopo quella notte, niente è più stato lo stesso. 15 anni fa, dopo che una serata di festa è stata distrutta da una violenta aggressione, Sara Linton ha deciso di rivoluzionare la sua vita. Adesso è una dottoressa di successo, fidanzata con l’uomo che ama. Il passato è definitivamente alle spalle. O almeno così spera. Finché una sera, durante un turno in pronto soccorso, Sara viene chiamata a visitare una ragazza che è stata brutalmente assalita.

Новый роман от автора "Бойни" — уникальный триллер в духе Артура Хейли о медицинском эксперименте, который пошел наперекосяк. История о силе любви и хрупкости человеческой личности. Биохимик Селия Йенсен в составе команды исследователей из Гарварда работает над новым лекарством от болезни Альцгеймера. У Селии есть и личная заинтересованность ­— ее отец болен, и она готова пойти на все, чтобы вылечить его. Фармакологи полны оптимизма, первые тестирования лекарства проходят успешно. Исследование переходит к третьей фазе — испытаниях на больных.

Det ugæstfri citadel beliggende i hjertet af den urgamle tyrkiske by Ruin åbner sine porte for første gang i historien. Hvorfor nu – efter tusindvis af års hemmelighedskræmmeri?

En dødelig sygdom er brudt ud i citadellet og truer med at brede sig uden for murene. Den smittede velgørenhedsarbejder Gabriel Mann har måske kuren – men kan én døende mand standse en epidemi?

Uden Gabriel er Liv Adamsen, tidligere journalist, sårbar og omgivet af fremmede i den ørkenoase, der nu er hendes nye hjem. Men Liv har imidlertid langt mere at være bekymret for end blot sit eget liv …

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives—making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo re-emerges in America, they must set aside their differences in order to stop a potential worldwide epidemic. Using the blood of one woman who is immune to the disease, they create a serum that might work—if the disturbingly cunning virus doesn't have plans of its own.

Parthia Alexander, a 25-year-old New York model, is admitted against her will to North Forks Psychiatric Hospital, her face mutilated by her own hand. The therapist assigned to her is Vale Messenger, a woman new to this work, trying to make the best of a second career. When Vale pieces together the secret of Parthia’s past - that Parthia’s father, a cosmetic surgeon, had repeatedly operated on his daughter to turn her into a “perfect beauty” - she is only at the beginning of an ordeal that her clinical supervisor will call “one for the books”.

Step inside St. Ann’s Hospital—where secrets hide behind every door and death waits in the shadows. In this gripping 1929 mystery by acclaimed author Mignon G. Eberhart, nurse Sarah Keate is no stranger to troubled patients—but Room 18 is different. After a tense dinner party on a stormy night, the hospital is plunged into darkness. A patient is found dead. A vital radium treatment is missing. And whispers of murder swirl through the ward.

Dopo l'introspettivo viaggio attraverso la narrazione in forma di diario, dei due volumi precedenti, questo terzo e conclusivo libro della trilogia apre il sipario su una visione ad ampio spettro. Attraverso la narrazione in terza persona vengono finalmente svelati molti dei misteri che erano rimasti in sospeso. Il libro si compone di due parti:. La prima, narra l'avvincente passato di un nuovo personaggio. Attraverso le sue interazioni con società segrete, cospirazioni mondiali e ricerche scientifiche, vengono rielaborate e comprese le vicende già trattate in precedenza.

When night falls upon Ditchfield Juvenile Detention Facility in the Maryland foothills, whatever the watch tower lights don’t touch is taken by the shadows. Inside are young men the state calls lost causes and future convicts. The violent. The mentally ill. The forgotten. Gordon Pope hates Ditchfield. Rumors have swirled about the place for years. Whispers of beatings. Mental abuse. Even experiments. Every patient he’s had that ended up there took a chunk of his heart with them.

A night that starts out as the best night of David’s life goes terribly wrong. He and his fiancé, Julie, wander into Banger territory while trying to help a wounded man. David ends up shot in the head and his girlfriend, kidnapped. Fighting for his life, David is rushed to the hospital where a brilliant neurologist uses a daring new treatment to save him. He survives, but he doesn't remember a thing... not who he is or where he comes from, or that his girlfriend is in terrible danger.

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, Dr. Avit Arceneaux and Sister Lazare, genetically altered clones, escape to Scorpion Hollow, a remote town nestled in the hills of North Georgia. They have nowhere else to go, and Lazare is expecting their first child.

Internationally respected Boston heart surgeon Max Dent, MD, a former Mossad assassin, completed his guest lecture in Paris. After leaving the conference center, two men confront him and shoot the surgeon with a tranquilizing dart. Days later, his head clears, and he finds himself restrained in a small jet. The kidnappers brought him to a hospital in Tehran, where he assisted a former heart surgery fellow whom he had trained in life-saving surgery on the dying ayatollah, the supreme leader of Iran.

The Theory of Irv provides a suspenseful journey through not just the storyline of the book’s plot, but an overview of American health policy. How it came to be a hundred years ago. How it has adapted in the last several decades. Perhaps more importantly, how we can fix it so we can have better health and health care for all Americans into the future.