Medical Mysteries Fiction

So many secrets in Nespodee Springs…the biggest is revealed when Rhys and Daley track down the second half of the Pendry film and learn the secrets of the clan’s Tesla tower and the catastrophic details of the plan to bring the Visitors back to Earth. But the insidious malady known as “the horrors” remains a mystery, claiming more and more victims every day.

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

When America is hit with a pandemic - soon finding out it was a viral and biochemical attack from terrorists - the population is both shocked and relieved to quickly have a vaccine on hand to save them. Untested and rushed to market, the people don’t care. In droves they line up, hoping to avoid the deadly virus. Too late, they discover there is something much worse than the virus unleashed on the United States; something so hideous and terrifying, it will make the virus look like a bad case of the flu.

When inexplicable human rabies cases appear in Tennessee, disease ecologist Letty Duquesne jumps at the chance to trace the virus back to its source. But the closer Letty gets to finding the outbreak's origin, the further someone will go to stop her. With an unwanted promotion threatening to take Letty far from the fieldwork she loves, this outbreak feels like her last chance to make a difference. It's not something she can ignore, especially now. The spillover of zoonotic diseases to the human population is on the rise and violent animal attacks are becoming all too common.

A must-listen thriller from the author of Dead Already.

Julia Menken lleva trabajando como experta en comportamiento en casos de asesinatos cerrados o sin resolver en la Unidad Nacional de Zoetermeer los últimos tres años. Ahora su jefe la reclama para que colabore en un caso que se prevé escabroso desde el comienzo: el horroroso asesinato de un niño de catorce años en Arnhem, cuyo cadáver han encontrado mutilado. En la escena del crimen se encuentra cara a cara con el fiscal Marteen Brouwer, quien le recuerda por qué ha estado trabajando en casos fríos todo este tiempo.

Tisha Page is a nurse at Harmony Nursing and Rehabilitation. She cares about her patients, trying to connect with their grief and loss—but it's hard when she's fighting her own battle against sleep deprivation and corporate indifference. The one patient she is able to truly connect with is Nathaniel. As Nathaniel rages against the slow decay of his life, Tisha begins to see a monster stalking the dismal halls of the Harmony nursing home. Worse than death, the monster wants to take from the patients while they're still alive until they're nothing but husks of their former selves.

When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington, DC, for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway - but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career. A debilitating neurological toxin has stricken the children of several political families, and one of them is the son of US President Anna Moreland.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta ermittelt gegen ein mörderisches Phantom und bringt sich selbst in große Gefahr... Kann Scarpetta das Phantom fangen oder fängt das Phantom Scarpetta? Ein spannender Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt. Unter großem öffentlichem Protest wird der Schwarze Ronnie Joe Waddell in Virginia auf dem elektrischen Stuhl hingerichtet. Wenig später bekommt es die Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Kay Scarpetta mit einem grausamen Mord an einem Dreizehnjährigen zu tun, den eigentlich nur Waddell begangen haben kann - nach seiner Obduktion.

Eine weltweite Pandemie ist ausgebrochen, und keiner ist davor gefeit: Alle Infizierten zeigen zunächst Markierungen auf der Haut, bevor sie urplötzlich in Flammen aufgehen. Die USA liegt in Schutt und Asche, und inmitten des Chaos versucht die Krankenschwester Harper Grayson, sich und ihr ungeborenes Kind zu schützen. Doch dann zeigt auch sie die ersten Symptome. Jetzt kann sie nur noch der "Fireman" retten.

En una plaza pública de Arabia Saudí, un hombre es ajusticiado bajo un sol abrasador y un chico observa impotente entre la muchedumbre: es su hijo. En un lúgubre hotel de Manhattan, aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer joven y todos los indicios para identificarla han sido eliminados minuciosamente. Una línea invisible conecta todos estos hechos, dibujando un plan perfecto para cometer un monstruoso crimen contra la humanidad, y la única persona capaz de impedirlo es un ex agente que huye de su pasado y ha borrado su identidad: ahora sólo responde al nombre de Pilgrim.

Looming high above the cliffside along a remote coastline, Ondstrand House is the headquarters of the shadowy biotech firm Ondstrand Biologic. When the body of the organization’s most gifted young scientist, Allegra Stans, is discovered in a walk-in refrigerator—her neck has been broken—Agent Myles is called in to investigate.

The inspiration for the hit Fox series Bones, Kathy Reichs explores another high-stakes crime from today's headlines, in a case that lands forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan in the middle of a gruesome international scheme.

A tsunami strikes a small island in the Pacific Ocean, leaving destruction, madness, and a deadly disease outbreak in its wake. Under quarantine conditions and without the help of modern equipment, epidemiologists Madeline and Quinn must make sense of the bizarre outbreak. What they discover and what they take home with them will change lives forever.

A 13-year-old boy commits suicide. A 65-year-old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC Lucy Davies, to find answers....

Her patients are dying. Some are apparent suicides and others possible accidents, but rumors are flying that Dr. Zoe Goldman is an angel of death - intentionally helping hopeless cases go to a "better place" - or, worse yet, a dangerously incompetent doctor. As a new psychiatry fellow at the local correctional facility, Zoe is still learning the ropes while watching her back to avoid some dangerous prisoners.

America is on the brink of collapse. The Council has revealed itself to be the driving force behind the bio-weapon that has unleashed The Pandemic upon the world once again. There's only one problem - the Council is now public enemy number one. Cooper Braaten and his SEALs are tasked with delivering the international cabal to justice for the chaos and death unleashed when they created the weaponized virus.

Amanda Jaffe, star of Margolin's biggest bestseller yet, Wild Justice, returns with a story of how the evidence that we think is the most reliable could be meting out a different type of "justice" than the public suspects.

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient.

Rina Kent was the new hot shot psychiatrist at Holy Saints ward. She also recently married the love of her life, who's also a doctor at the same hospital. Rina felt on top of the world, until one of her patients committed suicide. Rina knows it was her fault. A year later, her marriage has already gone down in flames. All she has left is her patients, but she's lost her confidence to help them.