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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.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

What do you do when you're locked to a hospital bed? When a billionaire has been murdered and they think you did it? When the cops want answers and others want to see you dead. Dr. Bart Tompkins finds himself in these very circumstances, on the run from mysterious enemies with untold power and money. Conspiracy abounds. His dad's missing and his brother works for the guys that are probably after his life. Who can he trust? A heart-pounding chase across California ensues that may decide the fate of millions of patients worldwide. And everything rests on the cure.

Rita Burch is a rising star. The founder of a huge clothing brand, she is on the brink of financial nirvana. Her company is set to go public with an astronomical valuation when her body is found broken and unconscious, a victim of an apparent accident. Comatose, and fighting for her life, determined to wake, she learns she can leave her body.

Disease ecologist Letty Duquesne is barely settled in to her new job when a colleague goes missing in the field. When Letty lands in Alaska's Katmai National Park to take over the investigation, she finds a violent welcome and the case in shambles. No record of the last scientist's work exists. His footsteps at the incident site disappear into nothing. And the polar bears Letty has been sent to find are hunting for human prey a thousand miles from the pack ice where they belong.

In a single moment, everything changes. Hundreds of thousands of people suddenly collapse, leaving their friends and loved ones behind, terrified and confused. Moments later, the fallen rise and the survivors become the hunted. Follow three intertwining stories through the apocalypse. Will Kessler works a dead-end warehouse job in Tennessee, driving a forklift and unloading shipping containers.

El doctor Benjamín comete un error en el quirófano, y enfrenta cargos por negligencia médica. Abrumado por la frustración, ocasiona un accidente automovilístico en el que fallece su propia esposa. Es acusado de asesinato y le retiran la custodia de su hija. Ahogado en depresión, encuentra a una vieja amiga que lo hace comprender: La vida da muchas vueltas y el mundo cambia a pasos agigantados. Emerge o muere.

The Red Mutation is a geopolitical thriller that discloses the Chinese use of bioterror to achieve world domination. When the head of China’s Hunan Institute of Virology bioengineers a Covid-like virus mutation that kills an entire village with a single nanoparticle, China’s leaders believe they have created the perfect assassin: hidden, silent, and deadly. Indeed, the most powerful weapon ever devised by man.

Naga kobieta w czerwonych pantoflach na wysokich obcasach balansuje na gzymsie wiszącego mostu Clifton Suspension Bridge, łkając w komórkę przyciśniętą do ucha. Psycholog kliniczny, Joseph O'Loughlin stoi parę kroków od niej i próbuje odwieść ją od desperackiego kroku. Kobieta szepce: "Nie rozumiesz" i skacze do rzeki. Jakiś czas później w domu profesora pojawia się gość - nastoletnia córka denatki. Dziewczynie nie mieści się w głowie, że matka rzuciła się z mostu; absolutnie nie była typem samobójczyni, poza tym miała lęk wysokości.

A surgical residency is a rough profession for a recovering narcotic addict. But in his second year of training, Jackson Cooper is just that. It’s 1983, and in the midst of his struggles, he meets a memorable character and patient named Maurice Latinsky. Maurice suffers from HIV/AIDS dementia. The patient has a recurring delusion of being Steve McQueen in the movie The Great Escape and continually tries to break out of the confines of the hospital.

Ein dubioses Programm, von dem niemand wusste. Ein mörderisches Wesen, das es aufzuhalten gilt. Junge Frauen, scheinbar wahllos getötet. Bis auf Blumen, Champagner und Dessous, die am Tatort gefunden werden, gibt es keine Verbindung zwischen den Opfern. Doch dann stoßen die Ermittler Nicolas Eichborn und Helen Wagner vom BKA auf eine Gemeinsamkeit: Die Opfer waren in die Fänge einer dubiosen Organisation namens "New Horizon" geraten, die ein Programm zur Optimierung der geistigen Leistungsfähigkeit anbietet.

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.

Mikor határoztam el, hogy állatorvos leszek? Még a percre is pontosan emlékszem. Tizenhárom éves voltam, olvastam egy cikket a fiúknak ajánlott pályákról és úgy éreztem, ez való nekem. Szerettem a kutyákat és a macskákat, az irodai munka pedig egyáltalán nem vonzott. Szinte láttam magam előtt, ahogy a házi kedvenceket a saját állatkórházamban gyógyítom. Hogy a csudába történhetett hát, hogy itt ülök egy yorkshire-i dombon ingujjban, gumicsizmában és enyhe tehénszagom van?

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.

Tisha Page is a nurse at Harmony Nursing and Rehabilitation. She cares about her patients, trying to connect with their grief and loss—but it's hard when she's fighting her own battle against sleep deprivation and corporate indifference. The one patient she is able to truly connect with is Nathaniel. As Nathaniel rages against the slow decay of his life, Tisha begins to see a monster stalking the dismal halls of the Harmony nursing home. Worse than death, the monster wants to take from the patients while they're still alive until they're nothing but husks of their former selves.

El nuevo acelerador, de Herbert George Wells es un cuento sobre los efectos de una droga capaz de llevar al corazón a 1000 latidos por minuto, a fin de acelerar el metabolismo y aprovechar el tiempo por la aceleración del pensamiento y movimiento humanos.

Доктор Вера – повесть о молодом хирурге Вере Трешниковой, решившей остаться вместе со своими пациентами в оккупированном Верхневолжске. Город находится под обстрелами, и раненых в палатах прибавляется, а медикаментов и еды становится все меньше. К тому же Вера рискует каждый день, укрывая в стенах больницы раненых солдат, тем самым нарушая установленные оккупационными властями законы... Главный герой повести "Анюта" капитан Владимир Мечетный вспоминает, как его при форсировании Одера свела судьба с санинструктором Анютой.

Steeped in rich historical detail, Dr. Eliza Edwards, the ingénue student in The Unlocked Path, becomes the mature mentor, steadfast in her calling to effect social change by addressing women’s health issues and guiding others to realize their dreams. In 1936, as the Depression ravages careers, Eliza re-defines her abilities, traveling to Georgia and Tennessee as she reclaims her purpose and rediscovers her ambitions.

Stephen Englehart, an Armed Forces medical examiner. dedicates his life to bringing peace to the families of fallen soldiers. Tagged as one of the best, he’s able to spot forensic clues others miss. But when the body of a US Marine, supposedly burned beyond recognition, shows up with hardly a scratch, even Stephen is stumped. Were the bodies switched? Then, in the middle of the autopsy, the impossible happens.

Gdy sprawiedliwość jest bezsilna, pozostaje tylko zemsta.. Przed siedzibą ONZ w Nowym Jorku omyłkowo zostaje zastrzelony starszy mężczyzna. Prawnik Tom Byrne jedzie z polecenia ONZ do Londynu, aby porozumieć się z córką zmarłego, Rebeką i uniknąć skandalu. Okazuje się, że jej ojciec nie był zwykłym turystą, ale członkiem żydowskiej organizacji wymierzającej sprawiedliwość faszystowskim zbrodniarzom wojennym. Wynikiem jej działania są setki niewyjaśnionych zgonów na całym świecie.