Medical Crime Thrillers

In Beverly Hills, murder has suddenly gone out of style. For five weeks, the head of the city's tiny homicide squad, Zen detective Masao Masuto, has worked only robbery investigations. But after more than a month without a corpse, this dry spell is about to end. The dead woman is Ana Fortez, a Chicana whose death was originally classified as terminal food poisoning brought on by a feast of botulism-infested clairs. But because botulism can only grow in an airtight space, the medical examiner warns Masuto that the fatal bacteria must have been purposefully injected into the pastry.

Eine Tote taucht auf, deren Leiche offensichtlich für ein teuflisches Ritual missbraucht wurde. Als die ermittelnde Polizistin stirbt, ist auch ihr Körper mit Satansmalen übersät...

A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room, even though he isn't diabetic. An ulcer patient dies of shock after receiving a transfusion of the wrong blood type. A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of medication and suffers a fatal heart attack. Brain surgeon Dr. Tyler Matthews suspects that something is seriously wrong with the hospital's new "Med-InDx" computerized medical record system. But he doesn't suspect that there's something murderously wrong with it.

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...

Grauenvolles erwartet die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan, als sie in den kleinen Ort St. Jovice gerufen wird: ein niedergebranntes Haus mit sieben Leichen, zwei davon Babys, denen das Herz fehlt. Nur zu gern widmet sie sich deshalb ihrem anderen Auftrag - der Exhumierung der Ordensschwester Elisabeth Nicolet zwecks posthumer Heiligsprechung. Doch erst liegt die Nonne in einem falschen Grab, und dann entdeckt Tempe gemeinsam mit Detective Ryan eine entsetzliche Parallele zu dem Fall von St. Jovice.

Wo ist Maura Isles? In einem Dorf in den tief verschneiten Bergen Wyomings ist etwas Schreckliches passiert. Die Fenster der Häuser sind offen, das Essen steht noch auf den Tischen, doch keine Menschenseele ist zu sehen. An diesem verlassenen Ort haben Maura Isles und ihre Freunde während eines Schneesturms Zuflucht gesucht. Und sind seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Nur ein einziger Fußabdruck zeigt, sie waren nicht allein in diesem einsamen Tal.

Money Clip is a financial thriller about a young brokerage intern who finds himself and the woman he loves caught in the middle of a Medicare fraud that is backed by a dangerous international gang.

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.

A patient in the intensive care unit, for no apparent reason, begins shooting and kills a nurse and a doctor who are caring for him. Gunfire is exchanged between the patient and a security guard, and they both die. Why did this happen? Where did the patient get the gun?

Returning to the United States to finish up her Field Training Epidemiology Program at the CDC, Camille Carter gets a part time job helping her mentor and professor, Dr. Anderson. At first, Camille likes the attention that Dr. Anderson gives her, but soon she is drawn into a mystery that has her doubting her relationships and those that she holds in the highest of esteem.

Bei Ausgrabungsarbeiten in New York werden 30 Leichen eines Serienmörders entdeckt, der um das Jahr 1870 sein Unwesen getrieben hat. Allen Toten ist gemeinsam, dass Teile der unteren Wirbelsäule entfernt wurden. Nachforschungen des Agenten Pendergast führen zu einem Professor Enoch Leng, der im neunzehnten Jahrhundert eine Raritätenschau betrieb, ein sogenanntes Kuriositätenkabinett.

Tre racconti di Italo Svevo: L’assassinio di Via Belpoggio, pub-blicato nel 1890 sotto lo pseudonimo di Ettore Somigli; Vino ge-neroso, pubblicato nel 1925 e Lo specifico del dottor Menghi, pubblicato dopo la morte dell’Autore. Musica di Kevin Mac Leod.

When her daughter, Rachael, working a summer job at the Ritz-Carlton, calls Cleveland forensic scientist Theresa MacLean to say a murder has just occurred at the hotel, Theresa knows she's stepping into a forensic mess. A local criminal-defense attorney has been bound and beaten to death. The victim was attending a convention for criminal-defense attorneys, which means the list of suspects could stretch a mile long.

Florida investigative reporter Whitney Steel has lived in the shadow of her legendary father long enough. To prove herself she needs to find the "big" story. She found it. Now it may kill her. After receiving a lead pointing to the world's first cloned human, now a small child, Whitney vows to unravel the truth. However, sifting through the facts proves to have dangerous results, including death threats and murder.

DR. JESSICA CORAN A brilliant and determined FBI medical examiner, she was an expert student of the criminal mind who thought she could face anything. That was before Wisconsin. Before she saw one of his victims... THE VAMPIRE KILLER The FBI agent had a special code name for his unusual method of torture: Tort 9, the draining of the victims blood. The newspapers called him the Vampire-Killer. But his own twisted love letters were signed "Teach"... and were addressed to the one woman he wanted most of all: His hunter, his prey, Dr. Jessica Coran.

Ten years ago CSI Darby McCormick investigated a child abduction case. Today, Charlie Rizzo is back and holding his family hostage. He makes only one demand. Bring me Darby McCormick... When Darby arrives to defuse the scene, she finds him horrifically mutilated, with a mask of human skin sewn in place over his own face. Within minutes, a group of men disguised as SWAT officers bursts in and releases deadly gas, killing the Rizzo family and leaving Darby barely alive.

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

Pediatrician Erica Rosen is stymied when two of her patients don't respond to medicine as expected. When other patients later develop strange, unexpected illnesses, she is determined to get to the bottom of it. Meanwhile, the department's newest pediatrician, Dr. Nilsen, appears to be trying to steal her patients. Erica suspects he is after her job as the clinic director. She also discovers Dr. Nilsen has become romantically involved with her trusted assistant, Martha.

In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases for the Sierra County police force even as her family begs her to retire.

Würdest du morden, um dein Kind zu retten? Hippokratischer Eid oder Mutterliebe: Im rasanten Thriller "Die Herzchirurgin" wird Ärztin Anna Jones vor eine unmögliche Wahl gestellt. Was wiegt schwerer: Der Eid einer Ärztin, ihren Patienten niemals zu schaden – oder der Instinkt einer Mutter, ihr Kind zu beschützen, koste es, was es wolle? Als die erfolgreiche Herzchirurgin Anna Jones eines Abends nach Hause kommt, ist ihre Babysitterin tot, ihr kleiner Sohn verschwunden.