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On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.

Jon Talbot is a history professor who makes sense of the past by examining facts. He also knows how to speculate about the what-ifs. Jon’s doing both following the death of his wife, Pax. Driving home late from a volunteer assignment, she plunged off a mountain highway and died. The police find nothing suspicious about the facts: a deer in the road, a blown tire, a broken neck. But the what-ifs are leading Jon down a twisting trail of secrets. After five years of marriage, he is finally getting to know his wife.

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

Der Tod 3.0 - Du suchst ihn. Er findet dich. Auf den Gleisen liegt ein Mädchen. Das Kreischen von Metall auf Metall. Ein zerstörter Körper. Selbstmord? Kathi war Andreas Winkelmanns Lieblingsnichte. Der Thrillerautor kann nicht glauben, dass sich das lebenslustige Mädchen das Leben genommen hat, und macht sich auf die Suche nach Hinweisen. Auf ihrem Computer findet er seltsame Videos, die zeigen, dass Kathi verfolgt wurde. Die Spur führt immer tiefer ins Netz hinein, zu immer grausameren Aufnahmen. Worauf hat Kathi sich da eingelassen? Und in wessen Hände ist sie dabei geraten?

Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The Cause of Death, provincial pathologist Dr...

When Henry Jones woke up on holiday in Fuerteventura, he didn’t expect to get burnt, drowned, or shot. Nor did he expect to be eaten by a mythical sea monster. Making friends with Alice, the girl in the next apartment, the two of them try to piece together their patchy memories to establish how they ended up on the island. Why have they been thrown back decades in time to their younger bodies? Why is every day the same, yet different? And why are they the only two people who can see what is going on?

Jim Cragis, a highly paid professional protester, is up to his neck in death, advocating against the street violence coming out South Side, Chicago in a community known as Paper City. He assembles a unique team in deadly Chicago with special skill sets to help combat and take down a demonic force that has taken over one part of the city and is collecting souls on a daily basis from a underdog class of people without protection. But when the battle clears, every member of Jim's team will be terrified and shocked, including Jim, the city, and a tormented people.

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin. 'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .' He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000...

When Charlotte Haze’s nurse, Rebecca Grainger, is found murdered at a disused burial ground and her young charge is nowhere to be found, Daniel and Jason must race against the clock to solve the crime in order to save the little girl.

From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we...

When I agreed to accompany my selkie boyfriend on a private boat trip, I didn’t realize the invitation included a swim. In the Pacific. In November. Naked. And I certainly didn’t expect to have our swim derailed the instant I got in the water—holy crap, that’s c-c-cold—by a literal boatload of selkie clan leaders.

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by New York Times Book Review People NPR Rolling Stone Los Angeles Times Reader's Digest and more! “This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris ...

Detective Damien Drake is back, but after what happened with the Butterfly Killer, he's no longer associated with the NYPD. Now Drake heads his own PI firm, which specializes in dealing with paranoid housewives and rich suburbanites suspicious that their nannies are stealing their silverware. That is until a visitor comes to him with a series of photographs of dead people. The problem is, no one believes that the victims in the images have actually been murdered.

The death of a person always has a cause. Sure! In this podcast, we not only get to the bottom of these various causes, but - as strange as it sounds - we learn from them. Marcell Engel is a crime scene cleaner and has dealt with more than 12000 crime scenes in various countries in his life. Many of these crime scenes have changed the speaker, entrepreneur and book author, shaped his life and sometimes even inspired him. And that's exactly what he wants to share with you in this podcast. https://www.marcellengel.com/

Don't miss Lynley, a new series now streaming on BritBox! “Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.” —Entertainment Weekly One of the most acclaimed entries...

It all started harmlessly enough. An egged window, a deflated car tire, and a few garden gnomes knocked over. But then, the silent calls began–late nights and early mornings to landlines and mobiles, and numbers that no one should have access to.

This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that...

Jem begins to track down the people who were there the night Toby died – a close circle of friends once known as the ‘Seven Wonders’ for their charm and talent – only to find them as tormented and broken as himself. All of them knew and loved Toby at Oxford. Could one of them really be his killer? As Jem grows closer to uncovering what happened that night, his pursuer grows bolder, making increasingly terrifying attempts to silence him for good. Will exposing Toby's killer put to rest the shadows that have darkened Jem’s life for so long? Or will the gruesome truth only put him in more danger?

Following the whim of the Laughing God, the Masque of the Fading Dawn conduct an audacious attack against mon-keigh invaders. Battling to secure their legacy, the troupe put on a performance worthy of remembrance against a backdrop of acerbic remarks from their Death Jester, Adroniel. Intent on a spectacular finale, Adroniel becomes hell-bent on obliterating their unremarkable human foe with deadly artistry, until a strange encounter challenges her role in the final act....

The trials: There are seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you. Darren Shan must pass five of these fearsome trials to prove himself to the vampire clan - or face the stakes of the Hall of Death. But Vampire Mountain holds hidden threats. Sinister, potent forces are gathering in the darkness. In this nightmarish world of bloodshed and betrayal, death may be a blessing.