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Una serie di spaventosi incendi devasta le abitazioni di Warrenton in Virginia, e, tra le rovine fumanti, gli investigatori trovano ogni volta il corpo carbonizzato di giovani donne. L'ufficio legale di Richmond è impegnato in un frenetico e macabro lavoro sui cadaveri alla ricerca di qualche indizio che conduca all'assassino. Kay Scarpetta teme di conoscere il colpevole. Intanto intorno a lei e ai suoi collaboratori qualcuno prepara silenziosamente una trappola mortale.

Change is in the air when a new board chairman sets out to modernize and expand Three Counties Hospital in Burlington, Pennsylvania—a once venerable institution whose standards have slipped. Dynamic Dr. Kent O’Donnell, a Harvard Medical School-trained surgeon, accepts the board’s offer to lead and reform the rundown, disorganized hospital because he wants to make his mark on the world. As medical-board president, O’Donnell faces his greatest challenge in Dr. Joe Pearson, Three Counties’ elderly head pathologist.

From the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced spine chiller about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as we know it. “Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game.” –#1 NYT...

Telefonate oscene. Minacce. E quella continua sensazione che ogni suo gesto sia maniacalmente osservato. Beryl Madison, scrittrice di successo, vive da mesi nel terrore, sa che la sua vita è in pericolo. Eppure apre la porta di casa al suo assassino. Poco dopo, sempre a Richmond, viene ucciso un altro famoso scrittore. E i due cadaveri finiscono all'Istituto di medicina legale. Comincia così il difficile lavoro della dottoressa Kay Scarpetta. Indagini di laboratorio che, a poco a poco, si trasformano in un incubo spaventoso che coinvolge la sua stessa vita.

We're taking a second chance, risking my residency for a few rendezvous. We're charting the stars that led us here, trying to find where it all went wrong. Thanks to the stories left untold, our crossed paths lead to crossed wires for a second time. But I won't risk my love again without a reward. He won't slip away from me so easily. Evan will have to know about my once-broken heart, my pregnancy, everything.

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

Nella carriera di un detective è impossibile dimenticare il disordinato, incessante movimento delle mosche necrofaghe su un cadavere umano: uno spettacolo orribile che prima o poi un poliziotto è costretto a contemplare. Adesso che le mosche Calliphora potrebbero essere un lontano ricordo per Kay Scarpetta che, lasciati Richmond e l'Istituto di medicina legale della Virginia, si è trasferita a Delray Beach, in Florida: un lavoro da consulente free lance, decisamente tranquillo. Ma gli spettri, si sa, ritornano.

Kitty has escaped her family home in England to join an international brigade of fighters high up on the snow-covered Spanish borders, determined to lead an effective fight against the growing Fascist forces sweeping across Spain. In Oxford, Grace has embarked on a new posting, working with two medical scientists—one Australian, one a German refugee—on the brink of a great discovery that will impact a life-changing treatment for infection. But for now, they need to keep their findings away from the envious eyes of Nazi extremists.

Cinque anni dopo essere stata allontanata dall'Istituto di medicina legale di Richmond, Kay Scarpetta torna in Virginia per risolvere il caso di una quattordicenne morta per cause sconosciute. Certo non di influenza, come la madre si ostina a credere. Ad aiutare Kay ci sono il fedele Pete Marino e la nipote investigatrice Lucy. È proprio quest'ultima a lasciarsi insospettire da un particolare apparentemente insignificante, in cui il fiuto della Scarpetta saprà riconoscere quella labile traccia che la porterà fino allo scioglimento dell'enigma. contributori. TR Annamaria Biavasco.

Shea wakes covered in dried blood and bruises, a dark contrast to her pale skin. She also has no memory of the last year of her life. A stranger named John Doe claims to be a friend- and the only person she can trust. The previous year, Shea Murphy is running a team that works on the development of implantable tech hardware. Noticed by the CEO at Crowned Skull Laboratories, she is offered a position that seems too good to pass up. But, every step forward leads deeper into a world she doesn't understand. Now, journeying to the Alaskan wilderness, Shea fights for answers and survival.

Wie werden wir leben, falls die weltweit auf Hochtouren laufende Forschung zur biologischen Verjüngung des Menschen Erfolg hat? SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Maxim Leo legt einen raffinierten und hochgradig unterhaltsamen Roman über vier Menschen vor, deren Leben so unmerklich wie unaufhaltsam aus den Fugen gerät. Sie sind Probanden einer medizinischen Studie der Berliner Charité, deren »Nebenwirkungen« ungeahnte Folgen hat: eine biologische Verjüngung um gleich mehrere Jahre. Jakob ist gerade seiner ersten Liebe begegnet und verliert auf einmal jegliche Lust.

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option-to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show.

Nur Fledermäuse verirren sich noch nach St. Jude. Das Krankenhaus im Norden Londons, seit Jahren stillgelegt, soll in Kürze abgerissen werden. Doch dann wird auf dem staubigen Dachboden eine Leiche gefunden, eingewickelt in eine Plastikhülle. Die Tote, das sieht David Hunter sofort, liegt schon seit langer Zeit hier. Durch das trockene und stickige Klima ist der Körper teilweise mumifiziert. Als beim Versuch, die Leiche zu bergen, der Boden des baufälligen Gebäudes einbricht, entdeckt der forensische Anthropologe ein fensterloses Krankenzimmer, das nicht auf den Plänen verzeichnet ist.

Der erste Fall für Detektive Jane Rizzoli. In Boston dringt ein Unbekannter nachts in die Wohnungen von alleinstehenden Frauen ein, unterzieht sie einem gynäkologischen Eingriff und tötet sie. Auf Grund seiner brutalen, aber präzisen Vorgehensweise wird er von der Presse "Der Chirurg" getauft. Die einzige Spur führt Detective Thomas Moore und Inspector Jane Rizzoli zu der jungen Chirurgin Catherine Cordell, die drei Jahre zuvor nach ähnlichem Muster überfallen wurde, den Täter aber in Notwehr erschoss.

Mandera, im Nordosten Kenias: Die X1-Mandera-Pandemie breitet sich wie ein Flächenbrand aus - und ist kein biologisch-evolutionärer Zufall. Berlin: Ein Mann erwacht in seinem Zimmer im Concord Hotel und hat das Gedächtnis verloren. Mit ihm im Raum befinden sich die Leiche eines ihm unbekannten Mannes sowie ein Zettel mit einem seltsamen Code darauf. Atlanta: Die Ärztin Peyton Shaw wird von den kenianischen Behörden kontaktiert, um sich der mysteriösen Seuche anzunehmen. Sie findet heraus, dass ein ganzes Kartell geheimnisvoller Firmen, Institutionen und Organisationen die Pandemie mit einer finsteren Absicht steuert.

Im Jahr 2003 wurde das erste menschliche Genom zerlegt und analysiert: Ein historischer Moment. Aber nur ein Wissenschaftler kennt die Wahrheit, die in unserer DNA verschlüsselt ist. Dieses Geheimnis kann alles ändern: Unsere Vergangenheit - und unsere Zukunft! Wer es besitzt, hat Macht über die gesamte Menschheit. Dr. Peyton Shaw, die das Vermächtnis des legendären Wissenschaftlers Paul Kraus erforscht, kommt einer globalen Verschwörung auf die Spur.

From the bestselling author and "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine...

On the outside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a pillar of the community: the youngest division chief at his hospital, a model son to his elderly parents, fiercely devoted to his wife and two young daughters. On the inside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a high-functioning sociopath - a man who truly believes himself to stand above the ethical norms of society. As long as life treats him well, Balint has no cause to harm others. When life treats him poorly, he reveals the depths of his cold-blooded depravity.

El médico de urgencias AJ Docker no es ajeno a la violencia, pero la brutal tortura y asesinato de una joven paciente inocente exige una respuesta. Junto con su amigo policía y un perro policía, se embarca en una búsqueda de justicia para su paciente fallecida.

Dr. Jack Wyatt is done sulking. When he's called to help his frantic best friend, whose newly-pregnant wife has been hospitalized, it's the distraction he needs to finally get over his divorce. But the search for a cure forces him to work with the brilliant and beautiful Dr. Madison Shaw, with whom he has a rocky past. Confronted by a disease they've never seen before, Jack and Madison must put their differences aside as severe symptoms plague more and more women. With the numbers multiplying and the nation on the brink of an epidemic, finding a cure may mean risking innocent lives.