Medical Suspense

Forensisch antropoloog Temperance Brennan moet een reeks opvallende moorden in Montreal onderzoeken. De slachtoffers van de moordenaar zijn allemaal jonge vrouwen, en naarmate Brennan dieper in de zaak duikt, raakt ze er steeds meer van overtuigd dat er een seriemoordenaar aan het werk is.Met de hulp van haar collega's en de politie racet Brennan tegen de klok om de moordenaar te pakken te krijgen voordat hij weer toeslaat. Bot voor bot, voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1997, werd al snel een bestseller in Amerika en lanceerde een geliefde reeks romans met de onverschrokken Temperance Brennan.

After their treacherous trip from Utah to California, Matt, Jessica and their friends can finally take a breath. The Miller’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley seems like the perfect place to create a new home. That is, until they find out what the Emperors are up to.

Dr. Jacey Flanigan has worked tirelessly to achieve her dream of becoming a pediatric cardiologist. But when she moves to Manhattan to begin her career at a prestigious children's hospital, she discovers that the medical profession may not be what she expected. An encounter with an arrogant heart surgeon on her first day sets the tone for what's to come - a world of enigmatic physician behavior and questionable cardiac surgical practices cloaked in secrecy.

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 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.

When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington, DC, for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway - but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career. A debilitating neurological toxin has stricken the children of several political families, and one of them is the son of US President Anna Moreland.

In the second audiobook of the McBride trilogy, Dr. David McBride enters the story having committed an egregious act that transgresses both moral and civil law. Left with no semblance of a normal life - his family, freedom, and humanity stripped away - he resigns to accept his fate and face whatever punishment is forthcoming. But David McBride is too valuable a commodity to languish in prison, and he soon finds himself caught between opposing forces - a corporate spy representing a Russian biotech firm and a man trying to save his daughter's life.

A closely-observed, panoramic thriller about medical science gone wrong, and the people who make dangerous pills seem safe. It’s Manhattan in the winter of 2010, and Shivani Patel is carrying the secrets of a trade that no one understands: medical ghostwriting. A Cambridge-trained scientist and wordsmith for the world’s largest drugmaker, she makes her soaring pay by delivering the sleight-of-hand needed to move new drugs into journals and onto market. Then she watches as a parade of aging males take credit for her work.

"מחדל רפואי!" זעקה הכותרת בעמוד הראשי,"בתו היחידה של המיליונר בייליס מתה בניתוח רשלני." גוש עבה חסם את גרונו של נועם. רק לפני כמה שעות זה היה בסך הכול עוד ניתוח שהסתבך. עכשיו, ממנתח צעיר ומבטיח הוא הופך לאויב הציבור מספר אחת. כמה ימים לפני שהחל הכול הם כלל לא הכירו. נועם דנציג עסק בשגרה המתישה של רופא מנתח בבית חולים; יעל לוי העסיקה את עצמה במחשבות על חופשתה. ואז מגיעה נערה צעירה אל שולחן הניתוחים של נועם דנציג, ובתוך שעות ספורות מתחיל מרוץ מסחרר שמפגיש את השניים והפוך אותם בעל כורחם לשחקנים ראשיים בעלילה שהם עדיין מנסים להבין.

In what passes for an ordinary day in a psych ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman is stumped when a highly unusual case arrives. A young African American girl, found wandering the streets of Buffalo in a catatonic state, is brought in by police. No one has come forward to claim her, and all leads have been exhausted, so Zoe's treatment is the last hope to discover the girl's identity. When drugs prove ineffective and medical science seems to be failing, Zoe takes matters into her own hands to track down Jane Doe's family and piece together their checkered history.

COVID-19 was not an accident. Its successor, the highly lethal and contagious COVID-23, is not a mutation of COVID-19. China would like us to believe the passage of 19 from animal to human was random and 23 is a natural mutation of 19. The United States wants us to believe both 19 and 23 are weaponized versions of a harmless coronavirus released during a botched Chinese bioweapons experiment. It will be up to Dr. David Aaronson, the new surgeon in the desert town of Fallon, Nevada, to tell the world what really happened.

When a bout of food poisoning strikes a residence for lively seniors blessed with generous pensions and high-ranking political connections, Dr. Zol Szabo, public health doctor turned medical detective, assembles his investigative team. But the epidemic’s source proves elusive; the death count rises and when the scourge threatens someone close to Zol, he calls in his friend and colleague Hamish Wakefield, a microbe connoisseur with a nose for exotic diagnoses.

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

Dr. Cornelius O'Brien brought his new girlfriend, psychotherapist Neve Keane, tohis home country of Ireland for a romantic getaway. There’s just one thing they need to do first: a personal favor for the President of the United States. It was supposed to be simple: check on the president’s goddaughter, who is struggling with a strange medical problem while studying abroad in Cork City. But with every step, Neve and Cornelius find themselves first slipping, then plummeting toward a terrifying, clandestine world at the abyss of human suffering.

En kvinde i trediverne strejfer ensomt gennem tilværelsen med en hjemløs kærlighed. Hun har en affære med en mand og bliver gravid, men straks efter fødslen bliver barnet taget fra hende. I journalen står, at kvinden har fået fjernet en tumor, og at hun lider af paranoide vrangforestillinger: hun tror, hun er blevet mor. Men hun er blevet mor, det ved hun. En nat bryder hun ind på hospitalet og henter sin datter. Hun er bristefærdig af kærlighed og søger tilflugt i et gammelt hus i skoven. Men maden slipper langsomt op, og uden for lusker et sultent dyr omkring.

Sometimes, a seemingly small event can trigger an explosion. In New York City, in the time of Corona, an eccentric surgeon is forced to watch helplessly as a seismic disruption in human rights and freedom unfurls right before his eyes. On the opposite side of the world in Wuhan, another physician/historian and expert in the Tao uncovers suspicious and murderous circumstances in the death of Wenliang Li, one of the first tragic casualties of the era that launched a worldwide coup.

Eine junge Wissenschaftlerin stürzt von einem Hochhaus in Boston. Detective Vince Brickle ermittelt und stößt rasch auf eine Reihe von Ungereimtheiten: Die Tote forschte am Virologischen Institut an einem wichtigen Projekt und stand kurz vor dem Durchbruch. Zusammen mit dem Virologen Frank findet Vince heraus, dass die Wissenschaftlerin ein neues gefährliches Virus so manipuliert hat, dass es als tödliche und zielgerichtete Waffe eingesetzt werden kann. Plötzlich finden sich die beiden im Zentrum eines Wettstreits zwischen Forschung, US-Militär und einem chinesischen Pharmakonzern wieder.

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.

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.

Secrets drove gifted surgeon Olivia Calderone away from Shadow Bay. Now that she's come home, will something more sinister be the death of her? Homicide Lieutenant Gabriel Garrett is a man well acquainted with shadows and darkness. With the discovery of a mass grave in his hometown that shines a light on an underworld no one realize existed, his second chance with a long-lost soulmate hangs in the balance. Will his pursuit of justice restore a love interrupted or will the truth destroy them both?