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In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day, many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression "dead ringer" rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table been her own.

Han iagttager dem. Han venter. De forsvinder. Der er sket noget forfærdeligt i den tilsneede landsby Kingdom Come i Wyoming. Tolv sælsomt ens huse står mørke og forladte. Menneskene, der boede der, er tilsyneladende pist forsvundet fra jordens overflade. Maura Isles kører gennem området sammen med en gruppe venner, da de pludselig bliver fanget i en snestorm. De søger ly i den forladte landsby. Deres mareridt er først lige begyndt. Flere dage senere flyver Jane Rizzoli til Wyoming for at lede efter sin forsvundne veninde.

Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crime to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of a wealthy English gentleman.

Jane Rizzoli y Maura Isles, -en quienes se inspiró la exitosa serie de TNT- continúan con su exitosa racha de resolución de crímenes. Se esconde. Las mata. Las conserva. A la patóloga forense Maura Isles le solicitan asistir a un examen intrigante. Una momia antigua ha sido encontrada en el sótano de un museo, lo que causa gran entusiasmo mediático. Horrorizada, comprueba que no es tan antigua como pensaban... una bala muy moderna aparece en la pantalla. La detective Jane Rizzoli debe investigar y pronto descubre un segundo cadáver momificado y luego un tercero.

PECCAVI. The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell, Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

Nadie la oyó gritar... El cadáver decapitado y mutilado de una mujer es encontrado en el barrio de Chinatown en Boston. Las únicas pistas que tienen la detective de homicidios Jane Rizzoli y su compañera, la médico forense Maura Isles, son dos hebras de pelo gris plateado —no humano— que se han adherido al cuerpo. Pero pronto descubrirán que esa muerte violenta ha tenido una escalofriante precuela. Diecinueve años antes un brutal asesinato, seguido de un suicidio, dejó cinco muertos.

Una bella mujer anónima parece ser solo otro cadáver más en la morgue. Tras un supuesto suicidio, yace sobre una camilla, aguardando el bisturí de la médica forense Maura Isles. Pero cuando Maura abre la bolsa que contiene el cadáver y lo mira, se lleva el susto de su vida. El cadáver abre los ojos. La mujer está indudablemente viva, y tras ser llevada al hospital, con serena y espeluznante precisión mata a un guardia de seguridad y toma varios rehenes... uno de los cuales es una paciente embarazada, Jane Rizzoli.

Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city - until a deadly epidemic threatens to destroy everyone she loves.

The quiet scandal surrounding the death of her parents has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she’s asking dangerous questions, and the answers are proving that the past does not die easily. Pulled into a world of espionage, Beryl quickly discovers that she needs help, and former CIA agent Richard Wolf is her only hope. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies are killers.

While visiting Julian “Rat” Perkins, the 16-year-old boy with whom she survived a terrible ordeal, Maura Isles is startled to learn that all the students at Evensong are survivors of violence. Isolated in the Maine wilderness, the boarding school teaches its students the science and investigative skills needed for a high-level crime fighting career. Meanwhile in Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli investigates the murder of Teddy Clock’s foster family, a slaughter that only Teddy survived.

Han vet exakt var det gör ont... Han smyger in i deras hem om natten och går ljudlöst in i sovrum där kvinnor sover, omedvetna om den fasa de snart kommer att få uppleva. Mördarens utstuderade tillvägagångssätt antyder att han är inte bara groteskt perverterad utan också läkare, och det får såväl Bostons tidningar som allmänheten att döpa honom till "Kirurgen". Men när mordutredarna Thomas Moore och Jane Rizzoli inleder sina efterforskningar upptäcker de något överrumplande. För synbarligen finns ett starkt samband mellan morden och Catherine Cordell, en attraktiv läkare med ett mystiskt förflutet.

It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks.

When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for more than a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did she die? It is the 1930s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy. It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer who slips from ballrooms to graveyards and into autopsy suites.

A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages...one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.

UN ASESINO QUE CONOCE EL OFICIO. Es un verano abrasador en Boston. Y a los males de la ciudad se les agrega una serie de crímenes atroces, en los que hombres de buena posición económica son obligados a mirar cómo un asesino ataca sexualmente a sus esposas. Una exigencia sádica que termina en rapto y muerte. El patrón de las muertes habla de un hombre: el asesino serial Warren Hoyt, recientemente eliminado de las calles de la ciudad. La policía solo puede suponer que un acólito está suelto, un depravado que copia las técnicas del demente al que tanto admira.

Un asesino silencioso se desliza en las casas de las mujeres y entra en las habitaciones mientras ellas duermen. La precisión de las heridas que les inflige sugiere que es un experto en medicina, por lo que los diarios de Boston y los atemorizados lectores comienzan a llamarlo "el cirujano". La única clave de que dispone la policía es la doctora Catherine Cordell, víctima hace dos años de un crimen muy parecido. Ahora ella esconde su temor al contacto con otras personas bajo un exterior frío y elegante, y una bien ganada reputación como cirujana de primer nivel.

Within the sanctuary walls of the convent, lie two nuns: one dead, one critically injured. Medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then the disturbing case takes a stunning new turn when another woman is found murdered in an abandoned building. Together, Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these slaughters.

Il male esiste. Cammina per le strade e ha creato un nuovo, diabolico discepolo... Peccavi, "ho peccato". Il messaggio in latino è tracciato, insieme a strani disegni, sulle pareti di una casa in cui una donna è stata brutalmente assassinata. Lo scenario è da messa satanica e l'unico indizio è una telefonata partita dalla scena del crimine e diretta a Joyce O'Donnell, la psicologa nemica giurata di Jane Rizzoli, che segue le indagini affiancata dall'amica e anatomopatologa Maura Isles.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed “Madam X,” the mummy–to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact–seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim.