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1918. In the last week of the First World War, a uniformed soldier is arrested in Durham Cathedral. When questioned, it becomes clear that he has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. The soldier is given the name Adam and transferred to a rehabilitation home. His doctor, James, is determined to recover who this man once was. But Adam doesn’t want to remember. Unwilling to relive the trauma of war, Adam has locked his memory away, seemingly for good.

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A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Dr. Joanna Lander has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process.

Grausame Verbrechen im ländlichen Idyll: Kay Scarpetta ermittelt. Der grausame Mord an der elfjährigen Emily Steiner schockiert die Kleinstadt Black Mountain im Westen von North Carolina. Die örtliche Polizei hatte es bislang selten mit Mord oder sexuellem Missbrauch von Kindern zu tun - und noch niemals mit einem Fall, auf den beides zutraf. Die Menschen dort kommen nicht mal auf die Idee, nachts ihre Haustüren abzuschließen. Gerichtsmedizinerin Kay Scarpetta, die in Virginia in einem ähnlichen Fall ermittelt, wird hinzugezogen und steht zunächst vor unlösbaren Rätseln.

In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are inadvertently drawn into a dangerous vortex of a series of homicides that have been cleverly staged as suicides. After Dr. Jack Stapleton’s near-death confrontation with a medical...

Stepping into the darkened hospital clinic, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd hears the faint click of a revolver before spotting the barrel pressed against the young marine’s temple. Unable to stop the suicide, Mac blames herself. Encouraged by her idealistic neighbor, she posts the incident on Silent Survivor, a blog in which she encourages veterans with PTSD to share stories.

In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood? The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry.

Als junges Mädchen musste Abby hilflos miterleben, wie ihr kleiner, herzkranker Bruder seinen Kampf auf Leben und Tod verlor. Damals schwor sie, später als Ärztin andere Kinder zu retten. Jahre danach gehört sie zum Top-Transplantationsteam eines Krankenhauses in Boston.

Eine ägyptische Mumie, die keine ist, ein Schrumpfkopf und eine Moorleiche im Kofferraum - ein komplizierter Fall für Detective Jane Rizzoli und Pathologin Maura Isles. Denn Boston wird von einem Serienkiller gepeinigt, dessen Vertrautheit mit urzeitlichen Todesritualen die junge Archäologin Josephine Pulcillo in Lebensgefahr bringt. Aber auch sie hat ein dunkles Geheimnis.

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.

It is a boiling summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes that end in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: "The Surgeon," serial killer Warren Hoyt, known for his partial dissection of his victims, and recently thrown behind bars. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires.

Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

Sul finire del secondo conflitto mondiale, tre uomini e una donna si rifugiano in una villa semidevastata sulle colline di Firenze. In una stanza del piano superiore giace, gravemente ustionato in un incidente d'aereo, premurosamente accudito dall'infermiera Hana, il misterioso "paziente inglese". Dai suoi racconti allucinati dalla morfina riemergono l'amore travolgente per Katharine e le avventurose peregrinazioni nel deserto.

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...

Cases of random violence have erupted across the country - murderous acts committed by previously non-violent people. Detective Adam Boedecker, grieving brother to one of the suicide-murderers, has discovered that all the suspects had taken a new breakthrough anti-depressant, Valazine. Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to pharmaceutical research. She's at the top of her game and slated to be awarded top honors for her latest breakthrough drug. Until a detective contacts her about a recent wave of homicides.

In einem Berliner Forst wird eine ermordete Frau mit Bisswunden am Hals gefunden. Bald macht die Nachricht von einem Wolfsangriff die Runde, doch die Bissverletzungen wurden eindeutig von einem Menschen zugefügt. Als in einer Vollmondnacht eine weitere Frau das Opfer des unbekannten Täters wird, gibt ihm die Presse den Namen der Werwolf von Berlin. Während die Kriminalisten rätseln, mit welchem Tätertyp sie es zu tun haben könnten, hat die Psychiaterin Ilka Herzog Antworten darauf parat. Ein neuer Fall für die forensische Psychiaterin Ilka Herzog und den Kriminalisten Malte Wächter.

"Il était 17 h 20 lorsque mon cœur s’est arrêté. Je ne me suis aperçue de rien. Ça s’est passé comme si je m’endormais. C’était doux, presque un soulagement." Emma est morte le 7 février 2022. Son cœur a cessé de battre pendant trente minutes. Un coup au cœur raconte la bataille qu’elle a dû mener pour revenir à la vie, de la réanimation à la rééducation. Pour se remémorer aussi où elle est partie quand tout le monde la pensait disparue.

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few in Bampton liked him, knowing him to be a wife-beater and distinctly unsavory character, so when some hungry pigs unearth his corpse from a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. As bailiff, it is Hugh de Singleton’s duty to bring Edmund’s killer to justice. But where is he to start investigating when almost everyone in the village has a motive? And when everyone is pleased to see the scoundrel dead, who knows how far they might go to help someone get away with murder?

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“Unsparing in her depiction of the disease’s harrowing effects, neuroscientist Genova also celebrates humanity.” —People “Sometimes it’s easier to tell truth in fiction…And she tells it with heart and hope.” —NPR “Her juxtaposition of scientific detail with compassionate...