Forensic Crime Thriller

Das Thriller-Debüt von Thomas Herzsprung, der als Tommy Herzsprung den LovelyBooks Leserpreis 2019 und Skoutz-Award 2018 gewonnen hat. Er will dir helfen? Dann renn um dein Leben! Die Morgendämmerung taucht den See im Stadtwald in ein unwirkliches Licht. Am Ufer liegt eine tote junge Frau. Bis auf ein Leinentuch um die Hüften ist sie nackt. Wohl platzierte Schnitte ziehen sich entlang der Venen über Arme und Beine. Ihr Mund ist eine blutige, zahnlose Höhle, der Schädel kahl rasiert.

Three university scientists are found dead in a gruesome murder-suicide, and the only suspect in the case, Victor Lazar, is quickly captured. When the spate of violent suicides follows him to prison he is moved to solitary confinement, reserved for the highest-risk inmates. And then his assigned psychologist inexplicably takes his own life. Alex Madison, a former forensic psychologist turned private therapist, is brought in to interview Victor. He suspects that Victor is controlling his victims, somehow coaxing them into a suggestive trance.

In a far-flung Tibetan village, prayer flags flap against whitewashed houses and a majestic monastery stretches to heaven. It's Shangri-La - the earthly paradise - until a stranger staggers out of the forest and collapses into a bloody, lifeless mass. He's the first victim of a crippling epidemic, but he's no ordinary man. Olen Grave, an American intelligence officer, heads directly into the hot zone to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he joins a Chinese research team led by a headstrong female virus hunter, Dr. Zhou Weilin.

In this confrontation with corruption, Ann Higgins stumbles into the underworld life of a high-ranking South Dakota statesman, and she catapults her psychiatrist, Troy Stoker, MD, into the conflict. When her chilling discovery threatens to devastate a politician's secret dominion, Ann ends up dangling from a makeshift noose and fighting for her survival while plunging Dr. Stoker even deeper into the battle of minds, muscles, and new tech.

Il corpo carbonizzato di un poliziotto - sottoposto a inchiesta all'interno del dipartimento - viene trovato nella sua auto, sul litorale di Southend, nell'Essex. Una ragazza fragile, abbandonata anche dai servizi sociali, cerca di scoprire la verità sulla morte improvvisa della sua migliore amica. Il sergente Frank Pearson e l'agente Cat Russell della squadra di polizia investigativa dell'Essex hanno l'incarico di risolvere il mistero che circonda la morte del loro collega, ma subiscono la forte pressione di chi non vuole danneggiare la reputazione del dipartimento.

When a priest is brutally gunned down in front of St. Jerome's Chinese-American Catholic Church, Father Luis Chavez is asked by the archdiocese to lead an inquiry. With the confessed killer already in custody, it looks like an open-and-shut case. That is, until Father Chavez digs deeper. As the killer's confession unravels, Father Chavez teams up with Deputy District Attorney Michael Story to get to the bottom of it. Together, they discover a conspiracy leading back to one of the world's oldest criminal organizations.

Der neue Weltbestseller von Tess Gerritsen. Eine ägyptische Mumie, die keine ist, ein Schrumpfkopf und eine Moorleiche im Kofferraum, ein komplizierter Fall für Detective Jane Rizzoli und Pathologin Maura Isles...

To what lengths will a woman go to save her family? Web-radio personality Bo Riccardi is pushed beyond her mental and physical limits when her husband, Oscar, is kidnapped by a man from her dark past. The abductor commands her to interview him live on her show, with Oscar’s life on the line. Giving in, though, creates an endless nightmare for Bo, as Oscar’s captor begins to destroy her career and alienate everybody she loves. Bo’s secret asset is chromesthesia, seeing colorful shapes that reveal the intentions behind anyone’s speech. She can literally watch what they say.

When forensic psychologist Claire Britten started working with lawyer Nick Markwood on his South Shores project, she had no idea it would endanger her life - and the life of her daughter. But when the little girl goes missing from her South Florida home and Nick insists his longtime nemesis is to blame, Claire frantically follows the trail to the Cayman Islands, desperate to save her daughter before it's too late.

Halina Shore is a Polish born forensic dentist living in Australia. When she travels to Poland to take part in the investigation of a war crime, she finds herself at the center of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. As the investigation proceeds, her professional assignment becomes a confronting personal odyssey as the truth about her own past begins to emerge.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Dr. Adam Knox hat den Drang, das Richtige zu tun, auch wenn es gerade das Falsche ist. Das hat ihn schon in den Bürgerkriegsgebieten Afrikas fast das Leben gekostet. Zurück in L.A. hält er seine Armenklinik mit nächtlichen Notfalleinsätzen seines Söldnerkumpels Sutter über Wasser. Dabei behandelt Knox, von Filmstars bis hin zu Bankräubern, jeden, der ihn bezahlen kann und nicht ins Krankenhaus will. Als eine Unbekannte den kleinen Alex in der Klinik zurücklässt, muss er sich plötzlich mit dem russischen Mob und einem durchgedrehten Großindustriellen herumschlagen. Doch Dr. Knox ist auch diesmal entschlossen, das Richtige zu tun.

In Boston wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden - in der offenen Handfläche liegen ihre Augäpfel. Die Verstümmelung geschah post mortem, wie bei der Obduktion eindeutig festgestellt wird. Doch die genaue Todesursache bleibt unklar. Kurze Zeit später taucht die Leiche eines Mannes auf - Pfeile ragen aus seinem Brustkorb, die ebenfalls erst nach seinem Tod dort platziert wurden. Beide wurden Opfer desselben Täters, ansonsten scheint es keine Verbindung zwischen ihnen zu geben.

Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. After a bruising breakup with his girlfriend, he is drinking whiskey at the speakeasy House of Shields when a hauntingly seductive woman appears by his side. Emmeline whispers to Caleb over absinthe, gets his blood on her fingers, and then brushes his ear with her lips as she says good-bye. He must find her. As his search begins, Caleb becomes entangled in a serial murder investigation.

Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There’s just one problem: the people in her life won’t let her go. When Jenny is viciously stabbed and left for dead, it’s her mother who finds Jenny’s body underneath the pines outside their home in the upscale town of Lewisboro, New York. State police investigator Susan Adler and her consultant partner Liam Dwyer are called to investigate the crime scene, but they sense something’s off right away. The clues contradict the story Jenny’s parents keep telling.

On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee - yet the damage to the building itself was minimal. An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team - but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders?

Der dritte Fall für Rizzoli & Isles! In einem Kloster nahe Boston ist die Novizin Camille Maginnes brutal erschlagen worden. Bei der Autopsie findet die Pathologin Maura Isles heraus, dass die junge Frau kurze Zeit vor ihrem Tod entbunden haben muss - doch von dem Kind fehlt jede Spur. Dann wird eine zweite Frauenleiche gefunden, bei der Maura Anzeichen für eine frühere Lepra-Erkrankung feststellt. Detective Jane Rizzoli und Maura Isles vermuten eine Verbindung der beiden Fälle. Und die Entdeckung eines grausamen Geheimnisses gibt ihnen auf schreckliche Weise Recht.

In Boston wird die Leiche eines Tierpräparators gefunden - ausgeweidet wie eines seiner Beutetiere. Es scheint eine mysteriöse Verbindung zu einem Jahre zurückliegenden Vorfall in Afrika zu geben, wo die Teilnehmer einer Safari auf ungeklärte Weise verschwanden. Jane Rizzoli reist nach Botswana, um dem heimtückischen Mörder auf die Spur zu kommen

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Eine namenlose junge Frau in der Gerichtsmedizin ist für Maura Isles nichts Ungewöhnliches. Doch als die Pathologin den Leichensack öffnet, schlägt die scheinbar Tote plötzlich die Augen auf. Maura fährt die unterkühlte Frau sofort ins Krankenhaus. Doch kaum hat die Unbekannte sich erholt, tötet sie einen Wachmann und nimmt erst Maura und, nachdem diese fliehen kann, Patienten als Geiseln ...