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

From the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times) Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie return in a gripping new novel of greed, corruption, and the lethal cost of private equity in healthcare Dr. Jack Stapleton thought he’d left behind the ruthless world of corporate...

Der mysteriöse Tod eines angesehen Richters entpuppt sich als perfider Anschlag. Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team finden heraus, dass der Herzschrittmacher des Opfers gehackt und als Mordwaffe benutzt wurde. Die Tat scheint mit einem spektakulären Gerichtsprozess in Verbindung zu stehen, den der Richter verhandelt hat. Die Experten des Rechtsmedizinischen Instituts bekommen es mit einem gefährlichen Auftragskiller zu tun, der schließlich auch sie ins Visier nimmt. Und die Situation gerät zunehmend außer Kontrolle.

In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors. Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker for the NSA when his brother Paul, a mycologist, goes missing on a trip to collect samples in the Amazon jungle. Paul returns with a gap in his memory and a fungal infection that almost kills him. But once he recuperates, he has enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition.

A deadly virus - and a desperate race against time. One spring morning in New York City a 17-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose and she begins to attack her own body in the most hideous way imaginable. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the autopsies reveal that a previously unknown virus is at large. It replicates horribly fast, it is always fatal - and is just too efficient to be entirely natural.

''It's clear you're in the hands of a master storyteller' - Alex Michaelides Upgrade is the mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion.. . . ‘You are the next step in human evolution . . .’ What if you were capable of more? Your concentration...

Carolin Alberts erinnert sich kaum noch an die Person, die sie einmal war. Inzwischen ist sie durch und durch von Ehrgeiz getrieben, wirtschaftliche und politische Macht ist zu ihrem Lebenselixier geworden. Auch für Hauptkommissar Alexander Rieker gibt es nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless kein Zurück in sein früheres Leben. Es gelingt ihm, Verbündete in der neuen Elite zu finden, die sich von Carolin bedroht fühlt. Um Carolins Macht zu brechen, stellt Rieker sie zu einem letzten Duell.

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time. They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims...

London is in lockdown under martial law. A hospital is being urgently built by the river Thames to contain the thousands of victims of a flu-like epidemic. Construction is brought to a sudden halt when a leather holdall containing the bones of a child is unearthed from the rubble. A psychopath has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. But why are he and his handlers determined to go to such murderous lengths to hide the origins of the body?

Featuring a preview of the highly anticipated new thriller Speaking in Bones, this eBook original novella showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs at the peak of her powers. In Bones on Ice, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan gets wrapped up in the ultimate cold case...

Doctor Maxwell Thornton, brilliant ex-surgeon and man most likely to insult you without even trying, seems to have an unwanted penchant for landing in the middle of murder cases. Since moving from the bustling metropolis of LA to a small town in Texas, Maxwell has struggled to fit in with the eccentric citizens of Rainy Dale. He’s made tiny steps forward, but the only person who truly seems to understand him is Sheriff Royce Callum.

In this propulsive, “nonstop read” (USA TODAY) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Night, a NASA doctor is in a deadly race against time to destroy a lethal microbe as it multiplies in the International Space Station. Dr. Emma Watson’s lifelong dream of working and...

Hauptkommissar Alexander Rieker findet heraus, dass die Häufung von Psychosen und Zwischenfällen in der Stadt auf die Einnahme des neuen Medikaments Sleepless zurückgeht. Er legt seinen Vorgesetzten einen entsprechenden Bericht vor, davon überzeugt, auf diese Weise ein Verbot von Sleepless erwirken zu können. Als Carolin Alberts, die Erfinderin von Sleepless, davon hört, macht sie ihren Einfluss geltend - der Bericht verschwindet. Rieker will sich auf eigene Faust an die Öffentlichkeit wenden, doch bevor er Gelegenheit dazu erhält, wird ein Anschlag auf ihn verübt.

“An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.” —New York Post “Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark...

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys...

When a noxious hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. But nobody else does, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. Eitan's colleagues are already treating him with suspicion following his recent breakdown, and are sceptical of his increasingly wild theories. When another doctor dies in similar circumstances, Eitan becomes convinced there is more to these deaths than meets the eye. Is there really a killer marauding the wards or is Eitan losing the plot?

From the Laws of Mount Misery: There are no laws in psychiatry. Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling...

Der erfolgreiche Radiomoderator Steve Brenner wird während seiner Night Show umgebracht und stirbt live on air. Diagnose: Giftmord! An Verdächtigen mangelt es nicht gerade - denn Brenner war ein arrogantes Ekel, das die Leute wie Fußabtreter behandelt hat. Seine Kollegin Connie Ellsworth übernimmt den beliebten Moderationsjob und scheint somit am meisten von Brenners Tod zu profitieren. Doch das Team um Dr. Russel Owen verfolgt schnell eine andere Spur.

From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find. The key to her missing memories could bring relief—or unlock her worst nightmares. On a cold, rainy morning, finance...

Ruben Hornby ist verzweifelt: Der Abdruck seines Daumens, den man am Tatort findet, belastet ihn schwer. Und doch schwört der junge Mann, unschuldig zu sein. Für Scotland Yard aber liegt der Fall buchstäblich auf der Hand: Hornby stahl die Diamanten aus dem Safe seines Onkels, verletzte sich in einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit und hinterließ dabei unfreiwillig den Daumenabdruck, der den Täter zweifelsfrei identifiziert. Hornby greift in seiner Not nach einem letzten Strohhalm: Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke.