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When Jess gives birth to Edie, it’s the happiest day of her life. She knows, from the moment her little girl’s hand grasps her finger, that her daughter owns her heart, completely and utterly. And even though Edie’s father has left them, and single motherhood isn’t easy, her beautiful, innocent child brings her untold joy.

When Audie wakes up after a devastating accident, her mind is a blank slate. The people around her—her devoted partner, her closest friends, even her own family—all claim to know who she is. But every version of her past is different. Contradictory. Suspicious. As Audie struggles to piece together the fragments of her life, a chilling realization sets in: the memory she lost may not be the worst part of her past. The real danger lies in what she is about to uncover.

Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is considered a privilege. So it is shocking when it is discovered that Odo, the priest’s clerk, has abandoned his post. But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, Hugh de Singleton is called upon. It is Hugh that finds the dried blood before the altar, and fear grows for the missing man … Will Hugh be called upon to investigate another murder, or will the man be found hale and hearty? But if so, where has the blood come from?

Einem Team von Wissenschaftlern um den Milliardär John Hammond ist Sensationelles gelungen: Sie habe 15 Saurierarten neu gezüchtet...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

Two strangers save a life on a plane and then share one tender Singapore night en route from London to Sydney. Dr Ailee Green knows a relationship is not an option before she gives the gift that will save her brother's life. But surgeon Fergus McVicker has other plans, plans that don’t include Ailee walking out of his and his daughter's world, and he offers her something she's always wanted.

Sie mussten tot sein. Von Tina Williams und den Bennett-Zwillingen fehlte jede Spur. Als der Außenseiter Jerome Monk bei dem Überfall...

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option-to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show.

The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it's a ghost ship - her entire crew has been decimated by a virulent fever which sweeps through the harbor town, and Newburyport's residents start to fall ill and die with alarming haste. Something has to be done to stop the virus from spreading further.

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning...

Nur ihre Asche blieb übrig: Abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt, am Rande der Zivilisation - diese beklemmende Kulisse von Simon Becketts "Kalte Asche" wird Sie nicht mehr loslassen. In jeder fesselnden Minute von Johannes Stecks Hörbuch-Interpretation werden Sie die bittere Meeresluft schmecken, die kalte Asche riechen und den Atem des Mörders in Ihrem Nacken spüren.

Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon - the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in this most demanding, palpably sexist field. But can she survive a single mistake?

Et si ceux qui prétendent nous soigner faisaient tout pour nous tuer ? Dans le métro de New York, une jeune femme, apparemment en bonne santé, est prise de frissons violents et commence à suffoquer. Elle décède à son arrivée à l'hôpital. Il semblerait qu'elle ait succombé à un mystérieux virus. Une hypothèse aussitôt confirmée par des décès similaires dans les jours qui suivent. La tension monte alors d'un cran et le médecin légiste Jack Stapleton redoute qu'une terrible pandémie s'abatte sur New York.

A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town of Helsingborg. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques. The body count is growing. But lead investigator Fabian Risk is distracted by his mission to expose a corrupt colleague, and his boss Astrid is spiralling back into addiction. As the hunt for the solution becomes ever more desperate, their tight-knit team begins to unravel.

Mit Hilfe der Forensik die Geheimnisse der Toten lüften: In "Die Chemie des Todes" erzählt Thriller-Star Simon Beckett die Geschichte des begnadeten Londoner Gerichtsmediziners und Forensikers David Hunter, der sich nach dem Tod seiner Familie als Landarzt zurückgezogen hat.

Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, hosts an F1 race, the largest sporting event in the city's history and a prime target for terrorism. With over a half million people descending on the Strip for the event, a bomb detonated in a parking garage days before the race. In the emergency room, Doc fights to save the lives of a pregnant doctor and her premature baby injured in the blast, spurring him to risk his own life to find justice for the victims.

Creatures of myth and legend secretly live among us. Even so Vampire James Lee never thought he would need to call a paramedic. When his werewolf right-hand man Rudy is nearly killed in a car accident, his life and his secret are saved by young paramedic Brynne Garvey. Now, as James helps Brynne learn more about her patients in his unusual parallel world, he realizes his desire. Even after 16 centuries, James discovers a young woman can surprise and impress him in a way he has never felt before.

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

Gordon Pope is the specialist the Baltimore City Police call in for hard cases involving kids. He’s a child psychiatrist with a special talent for explaining the unexplainable. Right now, the unexplainable is Ethan Barret, a 12-year-old accused of attempted murder, who was asleep the whole time.

Stranded in the middle of Antarctica, Concordia Station is so far from any point of civilization that it was dubbed "White Mars." But the freezing temperatures and the prolonged isolation aren't the only problems that the crew has to face. When the research team returns with a new specimen discovered deep inside the frozen underground lake, things take a foul turn for the station members. They don't realize how intelligent this lifeform is. They don't realize how long it lay dormant, waiting to be discovered; waiting for its opportunity to leave the ice and infect the world.