Forensic Mysteries

Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be called to the scene when a man's body is found in a small cottage fronting the river. Floating face-down in the rising water, it appears to have been raised from the cellar by the flood.

Maggie O'Brien, a nurse and medic on a SWAT team, has a thirst for justice, and a chip on her shoulder. She lives in the shadow of her father, a famous (or infamous) cop. Is she more like him than she wants to admit? The question hits home when Maggie feels the desire - as all police, nurses, doctors and medics sometimes do - to dispense her own brand of justice. Soon she finds evidence that someone else may be acting on the same desire.

Erheben sich die Toten aus ihren Gräbern, um Angst und Schrecken unter den Lebenden zu verbreiten? Nach mehreren Mordanschlägen durch scheinbare Zombies beginnt sich Panik in New York auszubreiten. Special Agent Pendergast ermittel unter Hochdruck. Eine Spur führt ihn zu einer alten Kirche am Rande Manhattans - und mitten hinein in das Hauptquartier einer Sekte, die finstere Pläne verfolgt...

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.

Two blood-spattered strangers awake, locked in the trunk of a car - with a murdered cop and the smoking gun. Aside from raging headaches and no idea what's happened, they appear to have nothing in common. Troy thinks it's 2001 and he's still a combat surgeon fighting terrorists in Afghanistan. Emmy believes it's 2002 and she's still grifting a living from the streets of L.A.

Vor dem Haus von Maura Isles wird eine Frau erschossen. Detective Jane Rizzoli glaubt zunächst, ihre Kollegin selbst sei das Opfer, da kehrt Maura von einem Kongress zurück - erschöpft, aber lebendig. Schockiert erfährt Maura, die weder von einer Schwester noch von ihren leiblichen Eltern etwas weiß, dass es sich bei der Leiche um ihren Zwilling handelt.

Der 6. teuflische Fall für Rizzoli und Dr. Isles: eine junge Frau wird grausam verstümmelt aufgefunden, ihre Leiche wurde mit satanischen Symbolen beschmiert. Ein Detail fällt Pathologin Maura Isles auf: Die abgetrennte Hand, die neben der Toten lag, stammt von einer anderen Frau. Kurze Zeit später taucht eine weitere Frauenleiche auf, auch sie völlig entstellt Satanszeichen geschändet.

Etwas Wildes und Böses macht die Hauptstadt von Laos unsicher. Es scheint, als würde ein entlaufener Bär hilflose Frauen angreifen und töten...

Im Sommer 1982 richten marodierende Militärs unter den Frauen und Kindern eines Dorfes in Guatemala ein Massaker an...

When policewoman Eva Perry goes deep undercover to help bring a vicious local crime ring to justice, both she and her boss - Chief Detective Inspector Beverley Wharton - know there are huge risks involved. A series of unexplained and bizarre suicides forces Beverley into close contact with her former lover, the renegade forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger, who is already investigating the sudden suicide of his colleague Daisy Pemberton.

Ein ermordetes Mädchen, die Überreste zweier Motorradfahrer nach einem Bombenanschlag und der ausgegrabene Schädel einer jungen Frau - damit hat die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes alle Hände voll zu tun. Doch als sie einen brisanten Zusammenhang zwischen den Toten und zwei verfeindeten Motorrad-Banden erahnt, gerät nicht nur Tempe in Lebensgefahr. Leider entwickelt auch ihr Neffe Kit verhängnisvolles Faible Motorräder.

Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population - some 4.5 billion people - by releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it?

Der zweite Fall für Rizzoli & Isles. Wieder ein heißer Sommer in Boston - und erneut schlägt ein perverser Serienkiller zu. Am Tatort findet Detective Jane Rizzoli den Arzt Richard Yeager mit durchgeschnittener Kehle vor. Von seiner Frau Gail fehlt jede Spur. Einzig ihr penibel gefaltetes Nachthemd weist Blutspuren auf. Der Mord erinnert Jane an den »Chirurgen«, einen psychopathischen Serienkiller, den sie ein Jahr zuvor verhaftete – nachdem sie ihm beinahe selbst zum Opfer gefallen wäre.

Es ist ein sonniger Oktobertag in North Carolina: Tempe Brennan, die forensische Anthropologin, wird zum Schauplatz eines Flugzeugabsturzes gerufen. Zusammen mit Spezialeinheiten der Polizei begibt sie sich an die Bergung der Opfer und ihre anschließende Identifikation - ein grausames Puzzlespiel, zumal sich herausstellt, dass ein Großteil der 82 Passagiere sehr jung war. Einige Tage später findet Brennan nahe der Unglücksstelle einen menschlichen Fuß.

Jack first suspects something's not right when stable cardiac patients start dying. The press learns about the fatal trend, and the beleaguered doctor feels the heat until the plot against him is uncovered. Simon Lagrange, not yet done, has an even more ruthless plot in mind this time - one that threatens both Jack's life and his reputation. Jack must rely on his nurse Kate to uncover Simon's connection and stop the plot before more die.

Agent Jamie Dallas loves undercover assignments that get her out of the Phoenix Bureau. But her new case is daunting - an FBI agent is mysteriously dead and a medical device company is targeting competitors with dangerous acts of sabotage. Dallas infiltrates TecLife and moves quickly to find evidence, and hopefully steal a sample of their research bacteria.

In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one of them strongly suspects that he knows the woman's identity - and the horrifying events that led to her death.

Terror nearly destroys Dr. Jessica Coran, former FBI Medical Examiner, and indeed, terror snatches her from her home and retirement. As a private consultant, Jessica joins forces with Cherokee Det. Lucas Stonecoat in Houston, TX, in an all-out effort to profile, hunt, corner, capture, or kill a serial killer whose taste for carving up helpless victims earns the fear of an entire city.

In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore in a neighboring county. The bones were consistent with those of the missing woman, and one of Patterson's daughters recognized a ring found at the death scene as her mother's. The bones were buried, and six years later, a relative of Patterson's - one of the men she was last seen alive with - confessed to killing her. Case closed.

When she receives a wedding invitation from one of her former patients, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is more than a little alarmed. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Jerome Barclay suffers from a severe personality disorder. Although she has never been able to prove it, Claire believes him to be highly dangerous, responsible for at least three suspicious deaths - and she fears for the safety of his new bride.