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It’s 1944 and Germany is facing its final defeat. 5,000 miles across the Allied dominated Atlantic, 22 men and five nuns aboard the Barquentine Deutschland are battling home to Kiel. Among them are a U-boat ace captured in a raid on Falmouth. A female American doctor caught in the nightmare of flying bombs. A gunboat commander who’s fought from the Solomons to the Channel and a rear admiral desperate to get some of the action. Allies and enemies, men and women, the hunters and the haunted all drawn into the eye of the storm.

Der NINK - ursprünglich in der Militärforschung entwickelt - sollte ein Auslöschen traumatischer Erlebnisse ermöglichen. Doch seit seiner Markteinführung gilt das Chip-Implantat als Wunderwerk der Digitalisierung, das als Speicher und persönlicher Assistent auch bald nicht mehr aus dem Alltag wegzudenken ist. Als Journalistin Silvie Mankowitz erfährt, dass ihr Bruder zwei Menschen ermordet und sich danach in den Kopf geschossen haben soll, weiß sie, dass etwas nicht stimmt, und beginnt zu recherchieren.

David Hunter rejser til den fjerntliggende ø Runa i Hebriderne, hvor han finder et brændt lig. Det lokale politi afskriver det som en ulykke, men Hunter er overbevist om, at der er en morder på øen. Han indser snart, at Runa er alt andet end en provinsiel idyl, og at det forkullede ligfund blot er én af øens mørke hemmeligheder. Så blæser en storm ind fra Atlanten, der afskærer al strøm og kontakt med omverdenen. Mens uvejret raser, slår morderen til igen.

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THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . . Chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern...

Officer Luke Fitzwilliam is on a train to London when he meets a strange woman. She claims there is a serial killer in the quiet village of Wychwood. He has already taken the lives of three people and is about claim his fourth victim. Fitzwilliam dismisses this as the ramblings of an old woman. But within hours she is found dead. Crushed by a passing car. And then the fourth victim is found.

Corey Curtis is coasting. At 33, she's in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn't be happier. She thinks. Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she's heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey - the woman her young colleagues are whispering about. 

Der erfahrene Chirurg Ihor Kosak führt eine Routineoperation durch. Plötzlich schlagen die Monitore Alarm. Der Operationssaal versinkt im Chaos. Ihor und sein Team müssen Entscheidungen treffen, die über Leben und Tod bestimmen. Wird die Patientin überleben? Eine intensive medizinische Kurzgeschichte über Grenzsituationen und Verantwortung hinter den Türen eines Operationssaals.

The unputdownable, addictive and disturbing thriller, perfect for fans of The Woman in the Window, The Girl Before and The Silent Patient. 'Edgy, cool, and intriguing' HARRIET TYCE 'Emma Cook keeps you guessing right through to the end!' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  'As fresh and exciting as...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virgina in quest of peace, but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.

Doug Weaver is a defense attorney who always believes the best of his clients, and Jacob Cohen, on trial for murder, is no exception. Jacob may be homeless and mentally ill, but Doug can't believe that this meek and intensely religious man could have killed and dismembered a woman. Yet Bernard...

Nach einem Unfall hat er seine Erinnerung verloren: wird es Journalist Sebastian Lamprecht gelingen, mithilfe seiner Audiotapes die Ereignisse zu rekonstruieren? Staffel 1 der fiktionalen True Crime-Serie von Thrillerautor Philipp Reinartz folgt der Frage, ob das Gedächtnis in Zukunft manipulierbar werden könnte. Ein Autounfall führt bei Sebastian Lamprecht zu einer retrograden Amnesie: jede Erinnerung an den Unfall selbst und die Monate davor ist wie ausgelöscht. Die Diagnose ist nicht nur schockierend, sondern führt auch zu Spannungen in seinem Umfeld.

Et si ceux qui prétendent nous soigner faisaient tout pour nous tuer ? Dans le métro de New York, une jeune femme, apparemment en bonne santé, est prise de frissons violents et commence à suffoquer. Elle décède à son arrivée à l'hôpital. Il semblerait qu'elle ait succombé à un mystérieux virus. Une hypothèse aussitôt confirmée par des décès similaires dans les jours qui suivent. La tension monte alors d'un cran et le médecin légiste Jack Stapleton redoute qu'une terrible pandémie s'abatte sur New York.

Special Forces soldier and medic Walter River would give anything to snatch more than a few seconds of down time to see if he can rattle the no-nonsense and incredibly hot Dr. Lloyd he's protecting, but dodging explosions, snipers, and student radicals who've unleashed a lethal bio-engineered microorganism have made that almost impossible. Maybe he'll get a chance - if he can figure out how to keep them both alive.

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.

They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages. Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall.

For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives.

In den stillgelegten U-Bahn-Schächten New Yorks treibt ein perverser Serienmörder sein Unwesen. Das Team der Rechtsmedizin ermittelt unter Obdachlosen, die in den Tunneln ihr Lager aufgeschlagen haben. Offenbar hat der Täter es gezielt auf die Außenseiter der Gesellschaft abgesehen. Dr. Russel Owen und seine Kollegen stoßen dann aber auf Ungereimtheiten und finden heraus, dass sie es mit mehr als einem Killer zu tun haben

The Scarmados are the most famous family in Britain, notorious for throwing lavish parties funded by their media and shipping empire. Now, head of the family Mattia is about to retire, and he's taken his four children and his new young wife Belle on the maiden voyage of one of his luxury cruise ships. The tabloids are buzzing: is he about to announce his successor?

Sharon Stevenson is a forensic psychiatrist. Her job is to decide whether a patient is of sound enough mind to stand trial, not whether they did or didn’t commit a crime. But Sharon is also a mother grieving the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who has never been found. And what if the man sitting before her, who has been charged with the murders of several women, also claimed the life of her sweet girl? It’s time to find out the truth.