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Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his 10-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.

When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the 100th anniversary of the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within hours of her demise and discovers some striking anomalies: first, that she has had a heart transplant, and second, that, against all odds, her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart.

A devoted wife and mother faces the unimaginable as her life crumbles. Crystal Rigler seems to have a perfect marriage. Derek, her handsome and charismatic husband, and their adult daughter, Cordelia, are her whole world. In addition to her already busy life, Crystal supports the volunteer organization she and Derek started: STOP (Stop Transplants of Organs from Prisoners). STOP aims to end a new government policy of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. They learn that these organs are not distributed by the national transplant list, established to allocate organs fairly.

If you go, there's no coming back. Dr. Georgia Healey can't grieve. Her nineteen-year-old daughter, Stephanie, stepped out for a walk two years ago and never returned. No body. No answers. Just an open wound that refuses to heal. On the anniversary of Stephanie's disappearance, Georgia isn't ready to let go — not yet. She retraces every step her daughter took, determined to question everyone: students, professors, ex-boyfriends, anyone who might hold a sliver of truth. But the truth isn't always a comfort. And what Georgia uncovers is far more terrifying than she ever imagined.

Toxic Minds is Anthony Lee’s medical thriller where healthcare collides with disinformation and a hateful mind losing touch with reality is the most dangerous of all.

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, Dr. Avit Arceneaux and Sister Lazare, genetically altered clones, escape to Scorpion Hollow, a remote town nestled in the hills of North Georgia. They have nowhere else to go, and Lazare is expecting their first child.

Jérémy Bouscarat est infirmier à l'hôpital Lariboisière. Une nuit, alors qu'il fume devant les urgences, une voiture pile face à lui. Au volant, une femme en état de choc ; à l'arrière, deux enfants blessés par balle. Lorsque le commandant Alexane Laroche arrive sur place, la mère est introuvable. Pourquoi s'est-elle évaporée dans la nuit ? Pour la flic démarre une course contre la montre ; pour l'infirmier, une quête obsessionnelle qui le transformera à jamais. Qui des deux aura le fin mot de l'histoire ?

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession . . . until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force. Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane. He has long since given up on any hope of love. But when the two men and a brave gnole constable are drawn into the maze of the mysterious killer, it's Galen's job to protect Piper from the traps that await.

The most lethal virus in history has begun its spread to the mainland US. Fast-spreading and with the ability to take over the host's immune system, the pathogen seems unstoppable. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control has encountered the virus before, and it nearly cost her her life. A mysterious man is killing those who could stop the virus. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, his motivations are unclear. And he has chosen a new target: Samantha Bower.

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.

Lieutenant Eliza Hartley follows orders without question—until the bullets start flying, and the truth begins to bleed. Kade Wolfe, a brilliant but allegedly traitorous hacker, was supposed to be just another asset in chains. But when an ambush reveals there's more to the mission—and to Kade—than she was told, Eliza is forced to choose between duty and instinct.

Aus einem fensterlosen Labor, das von keinem Menschen betreten wurde und dessen einzige Tür unter ständiger Beobachtung stand, ist eine Unze Radium im Wert von drei Millionen Dollar verschwunden. Unmöglich!, meint Prof. Dexter. Sein berühmter Kollege van Dusen ist indigniert. Sein Wahlspruch lautet: Nichts ist unmöglich, und so macht sich der große Kriminologe daran, das mysteriöse Geschehen aufzuklären.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

When Audie wakes up after a devastating accident, her mind is a blank slate. The people around her—her devoted partner, her closest friends, even her own family—all claim to know who she is. But every version of her past is different. Contradictory. Suspicious. As Audie struggles to piece together the fragments of her life, a chilling realization sets in: the memory she lost may not be the worst part of her past. The real danger lies in what she is about to uncover.

An einem kalten Wintermorgen wird Winfried Berger tot in seiner heruntergekommenen Villa gefunden – mit eingeschlagenem Schädel. Als Lobenstein und Künzel die Ermittlungen aufnehmen, stoßen sie auf ein Geflecht aus Lügen, Gier und Intrigen, das den Toten umgab. Ist Bergers Tod nur der Beginn der grausamen Rache eines brutalen Killers? Während die Polizei unter Hochdruck arbeitet, wird die 24-jährige Hannah aus der Psychiatrie entlassen. Nach Jahren der Qual hofft die junge Frau auf ein normales Leben in Freiheit. Doch die Dämonen der Vergangenheit wollen ihr zerbrechliches Glück zerstören ...

A chilling attack. A race against time. Trust no one. Dr. Kristi Chiro thought she'd seen it all in the high-stakes world of hospital IT security. But when a rogue team of hackers infiltrates her hospital, she finds herself in a race against time to save lives and protect the very technology meant to heal. As patients' vital signs spiral out of control and chaos engulfs the hospital, Kristi and her team must navigate a treacherous landscape of cyber warfare, where every beep of a monitor could signal life or death. But this is just the beginning.

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.

This set contains books seven to nine in the gripping, fast-paced crime fiction series featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Ritual Demise, Mortal Remains, and Silent Graves.

Life as an ER doctor is intense. A shift can turn from mundane to insane in a matter of moments depending on what walks in, or crawls in, the door. Dr. Cameron Turner was no stranger to death. It happened all the time in the ER, but usually not to the doctor. When an irate patient loses control, Cameron crumbles to the ground with a mortal wound. While the team races to save their colleague from certain death, Cameron opens his eyes and finds himself face-to-face with God. He is offered something he has sought his entire life.

Nora Brady has left the sheriff's department after a personal tragedy leads her to re-evaluate her life. She takes a job in the oncology clinic at Harrison Hospital, where she has been a per-diem nurse for some years. When it's discovered that a patient who had been treated in the clinic dies while on a cruise, but an autopsy reveals no evidence of cancer, Nora and her friends are left to wonder if he was the only victim. Unwilling to alert the perpetrators, Nora and the team covertly explore the who and why of such a deplorable scheme.