Forensic Mysteries

Jacob Malecki killed fifteen people over a thirteen-year period. At the height of the murders, Dr. Jo McCready was at university and, as an exercise, compiled a profile of Malecki, which broke open the case and helped send him down for life. Twenty-five years later a copycat killer is re-creating his murders. What's more, Malecki offers to help the police catch him from his own prison cell. Malecki claims he's repenting for his crimes. Jo doubts it, but as the body count rises, she can't ignore the killer's offer. What does he really want - and can Jo find out before anyone else dies?

Доктор Эбби Маттео работает в команде элитных бостонских хирургов, занимающихся пересадками сердца. Но однажды она принимает решение, которое не только оказывается для нее судьбоносным, но и имеет далеко идущие последствия.

Fünf ermordete Paare, keinerlei Beweise... Kay Scarpetta jagt den Pärchenmörder. In Williamsburg, Virginia geht ein Serienmörder um, der es auf junge Liebespaare abgesehen hat. Vier Pärchen sind in den vergangenen zwei Jahren vermisst gemeldet und erst Monate später tot aufgefunden worden – immer im Wald und schon so verwest, dass selbst eine erfahrene Gerichtsmedizinerin wie Kay Scarpetta keine Todesursache feststellen konnte.

Straight out of today's hospitals and labs, and tomorrow's headlines, comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late.

Some memories are meant to be forgotten—especially when they’re not yours. In this medical thriller series, Psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving miracles by prescribing a new memory-recovery drug. Until one of her patients jumps from an eight-story window to his death. This set contains Book 1: Adverse Effects and Book 2: Toxic Effects.

Captain Dominic Holland leads a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel. He's taken them to all corners of the Earth to protect the United States from biological and chemical warfare. When his CIA handler, Meredith Webb, gives him a mission to investigate a disturbing lead on a laboratory based out of an abandoned oil rig, they discover the most terrifying threat to mankind they've ever faced - a genetically engineered biological weapon called the Oni Agent.

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

Deadly outbreaks of diseases make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small, subtle, and in faraway places. When it arrives, it spreads across oceans and continents, like the sweep of nightfall, killing millions, or even billions. Mr. Akart has delivered up-all- night thrillers in his 40-plus novels. His new Virus Hunters novels will give you pause and remind you that we're in a global war for survival against an unseen foe.

Grief-stricken following the death of his baby son, surgeon Dan Lewis is struggling to make sense of it all as his marriage collapses. His work is his lifeline. But when he fixates on a child patient he thinks has a potentially lethal disease, no one believes the diagnosis. They all think he’s losing his mind. When one of Dan’s critics is senselessly murdered and the evidence points to the damaged doctor as the prime suspect, his bad situation becomes desperate. But there’s a dark secret linking the ill child and the murder victim - one that no one other than Dan can see.

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.

When Dr. Samantha Owens' homicide detective friend, Darren Fletcher, invites her to look over the evidence of a routine police investigation, she jumps at the chance and immediately realizes the crime scene has been staged. What seems to be a clear case of murder/suicide - a crime of passion - is anything but....

The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder. Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle.

When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored.

A man is murdered in a back alley. Renowned forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, are left with a veritable mountain of evidence collected from the trash-filled alley, and their only lead is a young eyewitness: the man's eight-year-old son, who was riding along on his father's delivery route.

Lou Welcome, from Palmer's bestselling Oath of Office, is back in this heart stopping medical thriller. A desperate phone call embroils Lou in scandal and murder involving Dr. Gary McHugh, known around the Capital as the "society doc." Lou has been supervising McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office. McHugh has been very cavalier about his recovery, barely attending AA and refusing a sponsor. But Lou sees progress, and the two men are becoming friends.

After completing the biggest case of his career, private detective Hank DeShear returns home to start treatment for a disabling genetic condition that could end his life, but he learns his partner on the prior case has just been murdered. Was he wrong to conclude the secretive killer known as The Greyhound had declared a truce? Or, have disciples of The Greyhound surfaced to carry on with the murders?

Der erste Thriller von Michael Tsokos basiert - wie könnte es anders sein - auf einem authentischen Fall und echten Ermittlungen. Sein Protagonist, Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel vom BKA, bekommt es mit einem europaweit agierenden Serienmörder zu tun: Im Umkreis europäischer Flughäfen geschehen Schlag auf Schlag Morde an Frauen, die der Täter mit einer mysteriösen Parole beschriftet. Durch eine spezielle DNA-Analyse gerät der Ex-Soldat Lars Moewig in Verdacht - ausgerechnet ein alter Kumpel des Rechtsmediziners aus gemeinsamen Bundeswehrzeiten, dem Abel so brutale Verbrechen niemals zugetraut hätte.

With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly, following her COVID booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the onetime Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon fundamentalist.

Eine Schnitzeljagd um Leben und Tod: Sebastian Fitzek und Michael Tsokos präsentieren einen blutigen, nervenaufreibenden Thriller. Gleich zwei Sprecher, Simon Jäger und David Nathan, sorgen für Abwechslung beim Hören. So wird das Hörbuch zu einer 9 Stunden und 47 Minuten fesselnden Jagd nach der Wahrheit.

Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need to be TV ready. Lathram appears to have it all, but something isn’t right....