Women Forensics

What should have been a routine afternoon on the witness stand for forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose turns into a shocking assault that leaves her bruised and bloodied. Following on the heels of a series of other traumatic events, the attack sends Claudia to the brink of a breakdown. Her fiancé, LAPD Homicide Detective Joel Jovanic, learns of the attack while leading a homicide investigation into a mailbox bomb.

In the dead of winter, handwriting expert Claudia Rose journeys to Maine to retrieve a manuscript about convicted female serial killer, Roxanne Becker. The manuscript, written by Professor Madeleine Maynard, who was, herself, brutally murdered, exposes a shocking secret: explosive research about a group of mentally unstable grad students selected for a special project and dubbed “Maynard’s Maniacs”. Was Madeleine conducting research that was at best, unprofessional - and at worst, downright harmful and potentially dangerous? Could that unorthodox research have turned deadly?

Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Then her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage girl shows up at her office, claiming to be Courtney Johnson - a child who went missing in Nottingham over 15 years ago - but refusing to allow Sian to test her DNA. Wary but intrigued, Sian reluctantly revives the undercover skills she learned in her days in the police force and begins investigating. But revisiting the past has consequences.

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.

Laura Nelson has it all - a successful career as a surgeon, five well-adjusted kids and a gorgeous, prominent husband Steve, a nightly news anchor at the Tampa TV News. Laura's seemingly perfect world shatters when she discovers that Steve is sharing much more than a news desk and a billboard with Kim, his sexy co-anchor. But Steve's torrid fling with his coworker is about to come to an abrupt end. Till death do us part...When Kim is murdered, Laura is left holding the smoking gun.

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.

Greed, the need for power, and a heroine. Pharmaceutical has all the elements of a good conspiracy. CEO R. Curtis Larson is out to make money and doesn't have a lot of scruples about how he does it. Diane McMichael gets in his way. Powerful allies on both sides complicate matters. If you enjoy an action packed audiobook that will keep you interested until the end, pick up a copy of Pharmaceutical.

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.

RN Gina Mazzio returns to San Francisco's Ridgewood Hospital after a near-death experience in Nevada's desolate gold country. On her first day in the Ob/Gyn Women's Health Clinic, a co-worker suffers a mystifying post-abortion death due to sepsis. Two days later, the same thing happens to a clinic patient. Gina thinks it's an inside job, but gets no support for her theory. Convinced she's right, she risks everything to dig into the who and why of the deaths. She wants to know if someone is deliberately causing clinic patients to suffer horrible deaths.

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.

Agent Jo Danning is trapped inside a nightmare, constrained by a coma, while her friends attempt to solve a murder mystery at a local hospital. In this third Jo Danning short story, Jo explores the connection between faith and proof. She also obtains a new sidekick along the way. Jo attempts to drop clues for her friends, but her time is running out, as a doctor plots her real-life death.

In what passes for an ordinary day in a psych ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman is stumped when a highly unusual case arrives. A young African American girl, found wandering the streets of Buffalo in a catatonic state, is brought in by police. No one has come forward to claim her, and all leads have been exhausted, so Zoe's treatment is the last hope to discover the girl's identity. When drugs prove ineffective and medical science seems to be failing, Zoe takes matters into her own hands to track down Jane Doe's family and piece together their checkered history.

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.

Tempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie nicht ernst.

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.

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...

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.

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.