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Die Journalistin Sophia erhält einen scheinbar harmlosen Auftrag: Für den Biotechnologie-Konzern Futuria soll sie ein Porträt für die Firmengeschichte verfassen. Futuria wird wegen seiner Verdienste um die gentechnische Heilung von Krankheiten wie Krebs und der Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Lebensverlängerung geschätzt. Doch je tiefer Sophia gräbt, desto unheimlicher wird ihr das Unternehmen, dessen Gründer, der legendäre Salomon Leclerq, seit einigen Jahren verschwunden ist.

Ett livsfarligt virus sprider sig som en löpeld genom Stockholm och lämnar inget annat än förödelse efter sig. Telefonlinjerna är överbelastade och polisen Erik får inte tag i sin fru som befinner sig på annan ort med deras dotter. Han måste se till att de hamnar i säkerhet. Att de klarar sig från den ondska som viruset bär med sig. Den framgångsrika MMA-fightern Pontus räds inte några kamper. Runt hörnet väntar en ljus framtid men när Stockholm drunknar i kaos, tar livet en helt ny vändning. Finns det några vinnare i raseriets spår?

Hans-Olof Andersson, Mitglied des Nobelpreiskomitees, lässt sich nicht bestechen. Doch genau das versuchen Unbekannte: Er soll für einen bestimmten Kandidaten stimmen. Als Andersson sich weigert, entführen sie seine Tochter. Was niemand weiß: Der Bruder seiner verstorbenen Frau ist ein knallharter Einbrecher und Industriespion, der keine Gnade kennt, wenn es um seine letzte lebende Angehörige geht. Er stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen. Doch mit dem, was er herausfindet, hätte niemand gerechnet.

Livsmedelsverket kallar till krismöte. Små blå blommor har dykt upp överallt. Ingen vet var de kommer ifrån, men de slår snabbt ut skördarna och färgar kornas mjölk ljusblå. Lisen är en av forskarna som undersöker blommorna. Hon är den som först upptäcker den fruktansvärda inverkan de har på omvärlden. Och på henne själv. E. P. Uggla är en svensk författare. Hon debuterade 2017 med den dystopiska skräckromanen "Första hösten - blå gryning".

Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City's finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York's leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III, the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. The team fails to resuscitate him, so the corpse is moved to the hospital's morgue. But before the autopsy is even performed, the body vanishes from the morgue and mysteriously reappears a day later - with the brain surgically removed.

Ein wahnsinniger Serienkiller macht die Stadt unsicher und er hat es auf Frauen abgesehen. Was als vermeintlich harmloses Date beginnt, endet als grauenvoller Mord. Doch damit nicht genug, der Irre macht sich an den Leichen zu schaffen, verstümmelt sie und versieht sie mit einem Fischschwanz. Russel Owen und Kyle Anderson sind so schon mit ihrer eigentlichen Arbeit überfordert und zu allem Überfluss hat ihre Kollegin Melissa Cavallero auch noch Urlaub. Ihre Freizeit nutzt sie zu einem Date... mit ungeahnten Folgen! Wird sie die nächste Wassernixe?

In the wake of several unexpected deaths at the hospital, Dr Claire Woodforde suspects there is a killer amongst the staff. As Detective Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton and her new sergeant, Tom Bayes, begin to investigate, they too start to wonder if the deaths were natural or whether someone helped them along. But as they start to make headway, something much more sinister comes to light.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Miss Nightingale's Nurses by Kate Eastham, read by Dorothy Lawrence. Liverpool 1855. Ada Houston is alone. Her grandfather has recently passed away and her brother is missing, last seen working on the Liverpool docks. Everyone assumes him to be dead. But...

Trapped in the shower by her undead husband, Morgan prays for rescue but quickly realizes she's on her own. She escapes, only to find that the horror has spread and now threatens everything she holds dear. With each passing moment, death becomes more certain. Logan returns to his childhood home and teams up with Max, an army deserter racing against the clock to save his family. When the infection outruns them, they face the real possibility that everyone they know is already dead. Or worse, undead.

A mother and her son have been executed in their home and fingerprint matches show their attacker died 20 years ago. When CSI Darby McCormick is called to the crime scene, it’s one of the most gruesome she’s ever seen. But the forensic evidence is even more disturbing: someone watched the murder unfold – and the killer died in a shoot-out two decades earlier. The deeper Darby digs, the more horrors come to light.

Forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden of the HBO series Autopsy and trial attorney and legal commentator Linda Kenney Baden bring us a chilling new thriller featuring their crack crime-fighting duo: Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and...

A former medical detective for the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Nate McCormick had seen enough suffering to last a lifetime. Now he’s left the CDC, determined to begin a new life with his girlfriend in San Francisco…until the vicious murder of a biotech researcher—an old...

With his explosive debut thriller, Isolation Ward, medical insider Joshua Spanogle earned wide acclaim. Now Spanogle takes us into the dark heart of medicine to tell a terrifying story of a billion-dollar medical breakthrough–and the side effects it unleashes. . . . A former medical detective...

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific...

Nerves of Steel introduces Dr. Cassandra Hart, a Pittsburgh ER doctor who discovers that her very own hospital is the source of a deadly street drug. When her best friend is murdered and Cassie starts getting death threats, she must trust Detective Mickey Drake to protect her. Yet even as a passionate love affair blossoms between them, a relentless killer draws ever closer.

The fourth and Final Instalment in the Red Riding Quartet. With Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace completes the Red Riding Quartet, an astonishing, sustained epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head.

With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to move on with her life - by focusing on her job to speak for the victims who can’t. Summoned to a homicide in Golden Gate Park, she realizes that she’d seen the victim just hours before, alive and well in a parked Jeep with a small boy. Now, the woman has been stabbed to death and stripped of her burka, and the child is nowhere to be found. Then an African American student is found dead, bearing knife wounds identical to those of the woman in the park.

"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career - working public relations for the dean - takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old, are unearthed on the campus. Out of the college’s dark past, these bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.

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.

A photograph pictures more than just memories.... DI Honey Laird is enjoying maternity leave when her neighbour, Kate Ingliston, asks for help in tracking down a stolen camera, which contains some rather revealing pictures of her and her lover. Honey feels she has to help, but when the trail leads to the murky shores of the Glaswegian underworld, it seems that all those involved are in real danger....