Forensic Mystery Fiction

A dark and gripping debut psychological thriller with a horrifying premise and a stinging twist. Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn't a doctor. The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable. But when Alex re-awakens, she's unharmed - and no one believes her horrifying story. Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. And then she meets the next victim.

When an emergency call brings Dr. Alan Gregory to an ICU, he finds 15-year-old Merritt Strait recovering from a suicide attempt. Her stepsister, Chaney, already lies near death—after her managed care provider turned down an experimental treatment that could save her life. When a wealthy executive with the family's HMO is shot to death, Alan discovers shocking evidence linking Merritt to his killing. As time runs out, he searches for answers—and discovers the truth about a family that will stop at nothing to save one of its own.

A hotshot venture capitalist—whose gold country is Silicon Valley—hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother. The geologists are hooked by the story of this lost man, this wounded soul. And they have the skills to find him. It's what they do: view a rock under the microscope and unravel a mystery. Solve a crime. Prevent a crisis. Find a missing person.

Auf dem felsigen Ragged Island vor der Küste Maines liegt nicht nur ein sagenhafter Goldschatz vergraben - auf der Insel lastet auch ein Fluch, der jedem, der ihr nahe kommt, den Tod bringt. Malin Hatch, dessen Familie die Insel gehört, ist nur knapp mit dem Leben davongekommen, als er dem Geheimnis zum ersten Mal auf den Grund gehen wollte. Nur widerstrebend schließt er sich nun einer Expedition an, die den Schatz bergen will - aber auch modernste Technik scheint dem todbringenden Geheimnis nicht gewachsen...

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they’ve been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship’s physician.

New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. But their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start: She must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons—most likely Māori tribespeople—whose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket, a Māori elder gives her a dire warning: The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse.

The widow of a rich older man, Paige Sorensen is younger than - and hated by - her stepchildren. And they’re dead set on proving that Paige forged their father’s signature on his will, which left his entire estate, including the Sorensen Academy, to her. Intrigued by this real-life soap opera, Claudia soon breaks one of the cardinal rules of business: Never get personally involved. But Claudia has grown attached to a troubled Sorensen student, and when disaster strikes, she’ll realize that reading between the lines can mean the difference between life and death.

Kadence, a new type of implanted defibrillator, misfires in a patient visiting University Hospital for a routine medical procedure causing the heart rhythm problem it's meant to correct. Dr. Kate Downey, an experienced anesthesiologist, resuscitates the patient but she grows concerned for a loved one who recently received the same device—her beloved great aunt Irm.

When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient death of her best friend, she becomes determined to find answers—even if it leads her to a murderer, and even if confronting authority, using her wiles, and bending the rules to get justice risks her future in the FDA. To unravel the puzzle, Carrie assembles a team: some talented post-doctoral fellows, a quirky pharmacologist, an unctuous chemist, and a skeptical FBI agent that she can’t help her attraction for.

في صباح احد الأيام استيقظت فتاة على سرير إحدى المشافي ويداها مُكبلتان، نظرت حولها لتجد ضابط الشرطة يقول لها:" لن تنجِ بفعلتك هذه " وبعد أن وضع حراسة شديدة على بابها تركها غارقة في بحر أفكارها تتسائل: من أنا وما الذي أتى بي إلى هنا وما الذي أرتكتبه ؟!

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.

Tempe Brennan, forensische Anthropologin in Montreal, wird an einem tristen Montagmorgen zu einem Fundort gerufen, der ihr das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Verscharrt in einem Kellergewölbe liegen die Leichen dreier junger Frauen. Nicht eine Gewebefaser, kein Fetzen Kleidung geben Aufschluss darüber, wann und warum diese Mädchen sterben mussten.

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....

In this combination medical/legal/psychological thriller, attorney Josephine Rinaldi is struggling to balance her fledgling legal career with caring for her father who has Alzheimer’s Disease. She thinks she’s found the perfect solution in the Kessler Institute. He’ll be in expert hands, and she can get back to work. But her relief is short-lived when questions about his care go unanswered and looking deeper puts both their lives at risk.

Eigentlich wollte sich Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast nach der mörderischen Jagd auf seinen Bruder Diogenes etwas Ruhe in einem abgelegenen tibetischen Kloster gönnen. Doch als er dort erfährt, dass man den Mönchen ein geheimnisvolles Artefakt gestohlen hat, muss er sich sofort auf die Suche danach machen, denn das Agozyen hat die Macht, die Menschheit zu vernichten...

Ogni corpo cela segreti…. Jayne e Steelie hanno fondato l’Agenzia 32/1 con un unico scopo: sfruttare le loro competenze di specialiste forensi per aiutare la polizia a identificare i cadaveri di persone scomparse. Quando un furgone perde un carico di resti umani congelati sulla superstrada di Los Angeles, l’agente dell’FBI Scott Houston non esita a coinvolgere le due antropologhe nelle indagini, chiedendo loro di effettuare un post-mortem non ufficiale. Ma con orrore di tutti, Jayne e Steelie capiscono subito che i resti non provengono da un solo cadavere.

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic-stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where teens are dying from liver failure. The team suspects a link with contaminated, cut-price cigarettes manufactured on nearby Grand Basin Indian Reserve. When Zol confronts The Badger, the multi-millionaire kingpin of the illicit Native tobacco trade, he is ordered to shut down his investigation when rebuffed by high-level government authorities.

Wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer: mörderische Brandstiftung, vier verkohlte Leichen und ein neuer Fall für Tempe Brennan Tempe Brennan hat als forensische Anthropologin Leichen im verschiedensten Erhaltungszustand zu untersuchen. Doch kaum etwas ist ihr unangenehmer als verkohlte Körper nach einem Großbrand. Als sie nach Washington, D.C., gerufen wird, um die Opfer eines vom Feuer zerstörten Gebäudes zu untersuchen, sieht sie all ihre Bedenken bestätigt.

Sybil makes a serious mistake. Everyone who knows her or of her is aware that she and Attorney Paul Bel Geddes have locked horns for a decade, and each regards the other as the nemesis. Sybil's error is to get angry, then loud and demeaning, at Paul at a very public black tie New Year's Eve gathering after having received yet one more intent to sue 90-day letter from the man. Her billionaire husband tries to shush her, but she all but shouted, "Don't patronize me, Charles. That bottom feeder has gone too far. Somebody needs to do something about him."

When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. “Old people die, that’s what they do,” is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it’s all she has left.