Medical Suspense

Die Welt, wie wir sie kannten, existiert nicht mehr! Ein fremdartiges Toxin verbreitet sich rasend schnell. Wer damit infiziert wird, verwandelt sich innerhalb von Sekunden in einen vor Wut rasenden Berserker, der seine Mitmenschen anfällt und zerfetzt, bevor er selbst stirbt. Niemand weiß, wer hinter der Verbreitung des Gifts steckt. Klar aber ist: In einer Gesellschaft am Rande des Zusammenbruchs sind die Infizierten nicht dein größer Feind.

Agent Pendergast erhält Besuch aus der Vergangenheit - in Form einer Leiche. Sein neuester Fall führt den Kult-Ermittler tief in die eigene Familiengeschichte. Alles begann Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als Hezekiah Pendergast, ebenso genial wie niederträchtig, ein Elixier entwickelte, das seine teuflische Wirkung über Generationen entfaltet, bis in die Gegenwart. Und das bekommt Agent Pendergast nun am eigenen Leib zu spüren.

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.

Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard and low-level drug dealer in London. Frustrated with his life and haunted by his past, everything changes for Uzi when he gets the chance to expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by feeding information to WikiLeaks. But once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man...

Wo ist Maura Isles? In einem Dorf in den tief verschneiten Bergen Wyomings ist etwas Schreckliches passiert. Die Fenster der Häuser sind offen, das Essen steht noch auf den Tischen, doch keine Menschenseele ist zu sehen. An diesem verlassenen Ort haben Maura Isles und ihre Freunde während eines Schneesturms Zuflucht gesucht. Und sind seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Nur ein einziger Fußabdruck zeigt, sie waren nicht allein in diesem einsamen Tal.

After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria’s secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber’s humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once-prominent surgical career, cutting hair in Hamilton, Ontario, seems a safe way to make a living, until a fellow Syrian is slashed to death in the barbershop.

Pittsburgh police officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once. Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visions of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo", but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate. When the killer targets them both, are they living on Borrowed Time?

Joe Mayfield’s happy, ordinary life comes apart when his wife’s HealthScore is slashed and she is denied cancer treatment. Frantic to save her, Joe hacks into the Yak - the national database the US created after CyberWar I.

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator's son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind's Eye.

At first the rules were simple: quarantine the city and let the plague die. So men and women closed their doors and lived in lockdown, fighting for survival against a disease as contagious and destructive as the Black Death. A disease for which there was no known cure. But the plague did not die. And so, at lunchtime on a Friday afternoon, the president announces the new rules. Every American should take up arms to protect the disease-free zones. Anyone attempting to leave the plague-zone must be shot.

Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be called to the scene when a man's body is found in a small cottage fronting the river. Floating face-down in the rising water, it appears to have been raised from the cellar by the flood.

In a Washington, D.C. research lab, a brilliant scientist is attacked by his own test subjects. At Columbia University, a talented biochemist is lured out of her apartment and never seen again. In the Justice Department’s new Bioethics Committee, agent Les Mahler sees a sinister pattern emerging.... Zoe Kincaid is a petite college student whose rare genetic makeup may hold the key to a powerful medical breakthrough. When she is kidnapped, the very thing mankind has wanted since the dawn of time threatens to unleash our final destruction.

Jack first suspects something's not right when stable cardiac patients start dying. The press learns about the fatal trend, and the beleaguered doctor feels the heat until the plot against him is uncovered. Simon Lagrange, not yet done, has an even more ruthless plot in mind this time - one that threatens both Jack's life and his reputation. Jack must rely on his nurse Kate to uncover Simon's connection and stop the plot before more die.

With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly, following her COVID booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the onetime Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon fundamentalist.

Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home with his beloved wife, Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who’s a very good girl. But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon - and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived.

When Katie finds out that her increasingly unresponsive legs and extreme fatigue is due to multiple sclerosis, she rides an emotional roller coaster - anger, denial, and fear - when faced with a wheelchair-bound existence. She puts her studies at Oxford on hold, and she splits up from her fiancé Mark, even though she still loves him. While undergoing treatment, Katie is diagnosed with MS2 - a virus that paralyses the mind.

Der New Yorker Psychologe Desmond Parker überlebt knapp einen Tauchunfall in der Karibik. Bis auf eine unklare Veränderung in seiner Gehirnstruktur scheint er mit dem Schrecken davongekommen zu sein... Bis er merkt, dass er eine neue, unheimliche "Begabung" hat - eine Begabung, die wie ein Fluch auf ihm lastet und ihn von New York in die nächtlichen Dschungel Jamaikas führt, auf die Spur eines düsteren Mysteriums... Ein atemberaubender Thriller im Spannungsfeld zwischen Medizin und Okkultismus.

Hailey Langley refuses to be a victim and has moved on from her traumatic past. But her marriage problems worsen when a deadly illicit drug threatens to draw her into the life she left behind. Mark Langley has allowed his job to interfere with his marriage, but he never suspected the secrets in Hailey's past might hold the key to solving both of his current investigations. Together, they must unravel the mystery of the drug called "Euphoria" and find a way to save not only their marriage, but countless lives, before it's too late.

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.

Former Naval Special Warfare Development Group orthopedic trauma surgeon Mark Thurman and preeminent scientist Claire Hodgson have discovered how to create human bones and heal fractures in days. They test their revolutionary methods on Mark’s ex-SEAL Team colleague, John Bristow, who was shot and left for dead after an altercation at his farm.