Medical Mystery Thriller

From the New York Times best-selling author of A Heartbeat Away and The Last Surgeon comes a shocking new novel at the crossroads of politics and medicine. What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.

Syrian-born CIA operative and retired Army major Sonia Amon is a battlefield surgeon at Walter Reed Hospital. She also teaches military strategy at the Army War College, which provides her cover as a CIA operative for the Middle East. Sonia is recalled to Syria to rebuild a series of primary care health clinics to offer basic care in war-ravaged Syria. But there is one problem. Her father is a terrorist who wants to kill her. He has hunted her for many years.

Grausam zugerichtete Leichen und ein Mörder wie aus dem dunkelsten Albtraum. Frankfurt im Jahr 1800: Drei auf ungewöhnliche Weise entstellte Leichen versetzen die Stadt in Angst. Gerüchte über religiöse Ritualmorde machen die Runde. Nur zwei erliegen dem alten Aberglauben nicht: Zeitungsredakteur Johann und Manon, deren Vater als Rechtsmediziner die Überreste der Ermordeten obduziert. Die beiden erkennen, dass die Verbrechen die blutige Handschrift eines berüchtigten Mörders tragen – einer Gestalt wie aus dem dunkelsten Albtraum.

Gdy znika mała dziewczynka, trzeba sprawdzić wszystkie ślady. Pewnej nocy ranny detektyw Vincent Ruiz zostaje wylo- wiony z Tamizy. Niestety, stracil pamięć i dopiero psycho- log pomoże mu złożyć w sensowną całość rozproszone wspomnienia, Jednym z nich jest historia uprowadzonej trzy lata wcześniej Mickey Carlyle. Dziewczynki nie odna- leziono, dochodzenie zostało zakończone, do więzienia tratii człowiek skazany w procesie poszłakowym, Ruiz jednak wierzy, ze dziecko żyje, i uważa, że natychmiast trzeba wanowić śledztwo.

Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city - until a deadly epidemic threatens to destroy everyone she loves.

Heather Lawrence’s long-awaited vacation to Salzburg wasn’t supposed to go like this. Mere hours into the transatlantic flight, the Houston FBI agent is awakened when passengers begin exhibiting horrific symptoms of an unknown infection. As the virus quickly spreads and dozens of passengers fall ill, Heather fears she’s witnessing an epidemic similar to ones her estranged husband studies for a living - but this airborne contagion may have been deliberately released.

Thorax is a medical thriller that takes listeners from Pennsylvania to Russia to San Diego—and opens a curtain to an insider’s view of the operating room—as a grieving, widowed doctor learns how far a father will go to save his child. And how far his own chest will open to hold new love.

Der Biotechnologe Jack arbeitet in der Wüste von Nevada in der Forschungsstation der Firma Xymos. Das weltweit agierende Nanotechnologie-Unternehmen stellt im Auftrag des Pentagons Miniaturkameras für die Kriegsführung her, die auf der Struktur von Bakterien aufbauen. Aber dem Forscherteam ist bei der Produktion ein folgenreicher Fehler unterlaufen. Jack, der das Computerprogramm entwickelt hat, mit dem Xymos arbeitet, soll retten, was noch zu retten ist.

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.

His name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain. But, Jessie's department chief is too busy to worry about such ethics. And neither of them has any idea that ARTIE will attract a patient from their worst nightmares.

A fallen medical researcher becomes obsessed with a single question: Do the dead think? Another creepy tale of the bloody scalpel!

When a body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner, is summoned to investigate. The manner of the young man's death is a matter of some dispute - but, as Sir John soon discovers, it was no accident. The victim did not drown, as the manor reeve alleges, but was strangled. In the ensuing investigation, Sir John is frustrated by what appears to be a conspiracy of silence among the seamen and townsfolk. Just what is the local population trying to hide?

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.

The deaths of six men and women appeared to be bizarre accidents - until Dr. Alan Gregory discovered the chilling link. Years before, each was involved in the psychology and psychiatry training program at the University of Colorado. And each was the victim of an ingeniously planned, brilliantly executed murder. Now only two alumni survive: Dr. Gregory and Dr. Sawyer Sackett, a woman he once loved.

Be careful what you wish for.... John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same disease are high. Then they hear about geneticist Dr Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease. At his clinic is where their nightmare begins.

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.

While visiting Julian “Rat” Perkins, the 16-year-old boy with whom she survived a terrible ordeal, Maura Isles is startled to learn that all the students at Evensong are survivors of violence. Isolated in the Maine wilderness, the boarding school teaches its students the science and investigative skills needed for a high-level crime fighting career. Meanwhile in Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli investigates the murder of Teddy Clock’s foster family, a slaughter that only Teddy survived.

How did it all begin? I suppose it would be the day I rescued a new-born baby from a poisonous snake, heard the news of my mother’s death and encountered my first ghost... Veterinary surgeon Clara Benning is young and intelligent, but practically a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she lives alone and shies away from human contact wherever possible.

The fourth and Final Instalment in the Red Riding Quartet. With Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace completes the Red Riding Quartet, an astonishing, sustained epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head.

Dr. Bill Brockton is in the middle of a nuclear-terrorism disaster drill when he receives an urgent call from the nearby town of Oak Ridge - better known as Atomic City, home of the Bomb, and the key site for the Manhattan Project during World War II. Although more than sixty years have passed, could repercussions from that dangerous time still be felt today?