Women Forensics

After destroying the last known remnants of Angelus Genetics and the evil Dr. Hauser's operations, Detective Hamilton DeShear escapes with Agent Jaden Trinn and their five-year-old ward Constantine to the Bahamas for a vacation - only to be framed for murder as Constantine is kidnapped and Trinn is nearly shot to death.

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister, Patty, were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed. Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the “Shadow Man”. Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister’s murder, Lauren, now a kidnapping investigator, enrolls in a clinical trial for a new memory drug. At the offices of Memory Makers in California, she receives the injections of the Memory Makers' serum and begins to experience flashbacks of repressed memories.

While preparing for his final round of life-saving treatments, detective Hank DeShear agrees to work with intelligence agent Jaden Trinn and a ruthless killer known as "The Greyhound" to shut down the remaining legs of Angelus Genetics’ illegal, death-plagued genetic engineering program. But the company Dr. Hauser founded plans to continue operating, buying political protection, and stopping any would-be attackers in the harshest, most permanent ways possible.

Ihr Beruf: Ärztin. Ihre Patienten: Kriminelle. Ihr neuer Fall: Eine Mauer aus Schweigen. In der JVA München-Wiesheim wird ein Inhaftierter erhängt aufgefunden. Alles deutet auf Selbstmord hin. Allein Gefängnisärztin Eva, die den Totenschein ausstellen soll, hat Zweifel: Der Mann stand kurz vor der Entlassung, warum sollte er sich gerade jetzt das Leben nehmen? Gemeinsam mit Hauptkommissar Lars Brüggemann beginnt sie zu ermitteln, doch bei den Angestellten der Haftanstalt stößt sie auf Schweigen.

Archaeologist Lisa Donahue and her physician husband James Barber hope their delayed honeymoon in Egypt will be a peaceful trip in an exotic setting. Instead, their Nile cruise is overshadowed by rumors of a deadly disease. After James recognizes the symptoms of smallpox at Karnak, he is recruited as a medical officer by the Center for Disease Control.

Jordan Reed put her world on hold to hunt down corruption. So, when the gutsy journalist gets tipped off about blood money changing hands at a pharmaceutical factory, she dives into the story. With an otherwise healthy worker dropping dead of multiple organ failure, Jordan suspects something far more sinister than a simple accident.

Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need to be TV ready. Lathram appears to have it all, but something isn’t right....

Geneticist Lanaya Kim must do what authorities haven’t - tie together the “accidental” deaths of several prominent scientists around the country to show they were actually murdered. Over the past two years, geneticists have died in what appear to be accidents, but Lanaya knows otherwise. If she tells her secrets to the authorities, she risks becoming a suspect or revealing herself to the killer and becoming an open target.

It is the middle of the night when pathologist Toni Day receives a call from the coroner informing her that the notoriously sleazy local attorney, Jay Braithwaite Burke, has just been found dead in his Mercedes in the middle of a snowy interstate. Unfortunately, everyone at Perrine Memorial Hospital where Toni works knows Burke. Over the years, he managed to talk nearly the entire medical staff into investing into his hedge fund. After it was revealed they had all foolishly invested in a Ponzi scheme, the feds moved in and he disappeared.

San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman has spent eight years looking over her shoulder. Stalked by her vengeful ex-husband, Spencer, she’s always known they’d meet again. Has her nightmare come true? Abducted, blindfolded, yoked, and tethered, she’s being held prisoner in an isolated cabin in Idaho. But it’s the unknown that terrifies Annabelle now. Because the man’s voice in the dark, though eerily familiar, is not Spencer’s.

Stepping into the darkened hospital clinic, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd hears the faint click of a revolver before spotting the barrel pressed against the young marine’s temple. Unable to stop the suicide, Mac blames herself. Encouraged by her idealistic neighbor, she posts the incident on Silent Survivor, a blog in which she encourages veterans with PTSD to share stories.

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”.

Als Rechtsmedizinerin Julia Schwarz in einer eiskalten Winternacht zu einem Leichenfundort gerufen wird, ist sie zunächst ratlos. Auf einem Platz mitten in der Stadt steht eine Eisskulptur, aber eine Leiche ist nicht zu sehen. Erst bei genauerem Hinblicken erkennt Julia einen im Eis eingeschlossenen Frauenkörper. Wie ist die Tote in die Eisskulptur hineingekommen? Und: Wie ist die Skulptur auf den Platz gelangt? Laut Kriminalkommissar Florian Kessler gibt es keinen einzigen Zeugen.

With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to move on with her life - by focusing on her job to speak for the victims who can’t. Summoned to a homicide in Golden Gate Park, she realizes that she’d seen the victim just hours before, alive and well in a parked Jeep with a small boy. Now, the woman has been stabbed to death and stripped of her burka, and the child is nowhere to be found. Then an African American student is found dead, bearing knife wounds identical to those of the woman in the park.

When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital makes the news, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive college students, who are drugged and dropped unconscious behind dumpsters. When rape-kits all come back negative, the police are baffled. But when the perp escalates and kills one of his victims, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering mystery and save herself and her friends as the "thief" closes in on them. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes.

Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young mother of two with a baby on the way; the neighborhood soccer mom in a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkable happened. An infant died in her care at the same time the unknown science of Shaken Baby Syndrome hit the media. Swept up in a media frenzy, Edmunds was accused of killing the child through SBS. She was stripped from her children and husband and sent to prison where she would fight for freedom 13 years before she was finally exonerated.

Ihr neuester Fall konfrontiert Tempe Brennan, forensische Anthropologin, mit einem albtraumhaften Szenario: In einer verlassenen Wohnung in Montreal findet sich, eingewickelt in ein Handtuch, versteckt unter einem Waschbecken, die Leiche eines Neugeborenen. Schlimmer noch, neben diesem tauchen noch zwei weitere tote Babys auf. Die fieberhafte Suche nach der Mutter beginnt. Ist sie eine herzlose Mörderin, getrieben von ihren Dämonen? Auf der Flucht vor ihrem Zuhälter?

Ein ermordetes Mädchen, die Überreste zweier Motorradfahrer nach einem Bombenanschlag und der ausgegrabene Schädel einer jungen Frau - damit hat die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes alle Hände voll zu tun. Doch als sie einen brisanten Zusammenhang zwischen den Toten und zwei verfeindeten Motorrad-Banden erahnt, gerät nicht nur Tempe in Lebensgefahr. Leider entwickelt auch ihr Neffe Kit vein erhängnisvolles Faible für Motorräder...

Nur wer ihre Sprache versteht, kann die Geheimnisse der Knochen lüften.

In "Die Sprache der Knochen" sieht sich die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan vor einige Rätsel gestellt - darunter auch, was sie auf den Heiratsantrag von Detective Andrew Ryan antworten soll. Doch die Fragen zu ihrem Familienstand treten in den Hintergrund, als ein Hobbydetektiv behauptet, eine Gruppe menschlicher Überreste in Brennans Labor identifizieren zu können.

Ein neuer Fall für die Knochenjägerin. Der Tod einer jungen Frau, deren Leiche an einem einsamen Highway im Straßengraben deponiert wurde, bereitet Forensikerin Tempe Brennan schlaflose Nächte. Der Teenager könnte ohne Papiere ins Land gereist sein, eine Spur, die Tempe zu dem Geschäftsmann John-Henry Story führt. Doch ihr Hauptverdächtiger starb Monate zuvor bei einem mysteriösen Brand. Und dann ist da noch der Fall eines Schmugglers, der kuriose mumifizierte Artefakte in die USA schleust.