Medical Suspense

Oskarżony o morderstwo psycholog, zmagający się z ciężką chorobą, dochodzi prawdy o tragedii sprzed lat. Gdy policja odnajduje w londyńskich kanałach zwłoki dziewczyny, zwraca się do Josepha O'Loughlina, znanego psychologa, z prośbą o pomoc w ustaleniu portretu psychologicznego zabójcy. Okazuje się, że zamordowana dziewczyna była jego współpracownicą. Joe sam staje się podejrzanym. Tymczasem odkrywa, że jego niezrównoważony pacjent, Bobby Moran, może mieć coś wspólnego z tą zbrodnią. Ponadto zauważa u siebie początki zdradliwej choroby, która trawi jego ciało.

A 13-year-old boy commits suicide. A 65-year-old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC Lucy Davies, to find answers....

Die Bestsellerautorin Henrike Engel mit dem neuen großen Roman über vergangene Zeiten und unbekannte Welten am Hamburger Hafen. Hamburg, 1911: Anne Fitzpatrick behandelt in ihrer Arztpraxis am Hafen immer häufiger chinesische Frauen, die in den Kolonien als Arbeitskräfte angeworben wurden. Viele von ihnen wurden schwer misshandelt. Als eine der Frauen in Annes Armen stirbt, schwört die Hafenärztin die Verantwortlichen zu finden. Zusammen mit Kommissar Berthold Rheydt fängt sie an, in der Schmuckstraße, dem Chinesenviertel auf Sankt Pauli, nachzuforschen.

Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues—a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him.

Die Optimierung des Menschen ist das Geschäft der Zukunft. Eine kalifornische Firma verkauft Blutplasma-Verjüngungskuren, Tech-Riesen investieren Unsummen in die digitale Bewusstseinsspeicherung. Und ein russisches Unternehmen verspricht durch die Konservierung des eigenen Leichnams ein Leben nach dem Tod. Währenddessen stirbt in Seattle ein obdachloser Junge an Herzversagen. Als der deutsche Chirurg Michael Wild beginnt, Fragen zu stellen, verschwindet er von der Bildfläche.

As the Great Depression presses down around him, Archer teeters at the edge of a precipice. He must choose between his hard-won career and the sacred oaths he took as a doctor and scientist—before all his choices are lost forever.

A cure for aging is all the rage these days, with scientists only a few decades away from extending life to 150 years or more. So when Dr. Ben Peterson is offered twenty million dollars to develop the so-called Body Fortress Drug—a cure for all disease—he was surprised as anyone when he actually did it! However, along the way, he also developed the opposite, a drug that leaves the body susceptible to ALL diseases . . . the perfect biological weapon.

Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his office door and prepares for a relaxing evening. But what follows is a living nightmare when later he is discovered in a locked-in coma, the victim of an auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is left to Doctor Kash Devan, Trenchard's young protégé, to uncover the truth. And what he discovers is chilling...In his ruthless pursuit of wealth and success, Trenchard has left a trail of wrecked lives, and angry people, behind him. Which of Trenchard's victims hated him so much that they wanted to ruin not only his reputation, but his life as well?

DC Heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury—a dissection. Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds’ former lover, who harbors a grudge against all the victims. Then when prominent people in the US government begin to experience these same deadly cardiac emergencies, it falls to the unlikely team of three to snuff out a catastrophic plot that only the medically astute can divine.

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.

When Alex Williams - a quiet, Deaconess Hospital Laboratory employee - falls ill with a highly contagious and lethal infection, the entire hospital staff panics. Hospital executives are concerned about the hospital’s image and the possible negative publicity. And Maggie Hamilton, the Infectious Diseases Specialist, is perplexed as to where he could have acquired the disease. As more evidence surfaces, the medical specialist and her newfound FBI friend find themselves traveling across the country to locate the perpetrators, before the elixir is unleashed upon the world.

A wrongful death in a state hospital leaves Boston trial attorney Ken Dwyer seeking ways to get around a $100,000 statutory cap on damages. An aggressive courtroom brawler on the rise, he makes his living in the trenches of personal injury and criminal defense matters. His investigation into both matters leads him into the dealings of a Balkan criminal syndicate. Will he uncover the cause of the wrongful death or become another casualty of street crime?

Juan Gutierrez, ein Krebsforscher, untersucht seit vielen Jahren das Erbgut von Tieren, bei denen sich eine Immunität gegen bestimmte Krebsarten nachweisen lässt. Im Verlauf seiner Forschungsarbeit entdeckt Juan ein bestimmtes Muster, das es ihm ermöglicht, die Evolution einer Spezies über tausende Generationen hinweg vorherzusagen.

At the death of fabled CIA operative Bud (Fisher) Liljigren, field agent Adam Zak and his tech-savvy partner, Dreu Sason, are recruited to lead the agency’s deep-cover Unit 1. When Fisher’s former lover from his service days in Norway alerts the unit of renewed secret activity in what was once a WW II Nazi experimental lab, Zak recruits a brilliant but disaffected FBI agent, Janet McIntire, to replace him in the field and lead the investigation.

Five years after working triage during America's terrible Day of Destruction, Dr. Ethan King wants nothing more than a normal life. But when he finds an abandoned "Inexorable" child freezing to death in the snow, he must make a choice that could cost him everything and unravel a thread of dark woven secrets. As he races to find a cure for whatever is creating a generation of doomed children, Ethan discovers that doing the right thing in an evil world is never as clear and easy as it seems.

Vor diesem Killer ist man nirgends sicher ... Sie sind die einzigen Überlebenden schrecklicher Familientragödien. Erst wurden ihre Eltern und dann obendrein die Pflegefamilien brutal er mordet...

Deadly Passage is a multi-layered, high seas, adventure-thriller audiobook of bioterrorism in a post-9/11 world. The audiobook operates on several levels not commonly encountered in a high-octane thriller, including insights into the terrorists, their backgrounds, rationale, and subtle conflicts within the communities from which they have been drawn that ultimately condition their decisions and actions. The responses of US governmental agencies mirror these diverse perspectives.

Kaum hat die junge Ärztin Dr. Claire Elliot ihre Praxis in dem Provinznest Tranquility eröffnet, muss sie erleben, wie eine ganze Gruppe Jugendlicher...

Bei seinem letzten Einsatz ist der Forensiker David Hunter nur knapp dem Tode entronnen. Von einer vollständigen Genesung weit entfernt...

When medical malpractice leads to violent revenge, Irish-style.... Kieran Kelly's world turns upside down when his wife's health is devastated by an epidural in childbirth. Incensed by damning evidence of medical and pharmaceutical misconduct, the tormented former IRA hit man plots revenge against those he deems responsible, including a government that doesn't seem to care. Kelly's quest brings him face-to-face with an alcoholic physician, an altruistic scientist, and a corrupt government minister.