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Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer. Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl, claim she's obsessed and can't stop the vicious...

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...

It all begins with a painting called Guilt. Eve Duncan’s daughter, Jane, has no idea why she painted the portrait of the chilling face that now hangs in a Paris gallery. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ know both the face and the significance behind it. They believe that Jane must die – when the moment is right, and not an instant before she leads them to an ancient treasure whose value and power are beyond price.

Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move...and who has a special affinity for blood. When a Georgia senator's daughter is found murdered, and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak - a serial murderer who is on Eve's short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonnie.

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter, Bonnie, was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands.

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

Pittsburgh police officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once. Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visions of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo", but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate. When the killer targets them both, are they living on Borrowed Time?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Perfect Betrayal by Lauren North, read by Laura Kirman. 'I thought she was our friend. I thought she was trying to help us.' After the sudden death of her husband, Tess is drowning in grief. All she has left is her son, Jamie, and she'll do anything...

AN EDEN BOOK SOCIETY EDITION The Forgotten recordings, featuring bonus material including a new foreword by Charlie Higson. You must do what the doctor says… Organ donation is in its infancy and Daisy Howard, who is giving a kidney to her aunt, is in the hands of a pioneering surgeon. After...

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.

COVID-19 was not an accident. Its successor, the highly lethal and contagious COVID-23, is not a mutation of COVID-19. China would like us to believe the passage of 19 from animal to human was random and 23 is a natural mutation of 19. The United States wants us to believe both 19 and 23 are weaponized versions of a harmless coronavirus released during a botched Chinese bioweapons experiment. It will be up to Dr. David Aaronson, the new surgeon in the desert town of Fallon, Nevada, to tell the world what really happened.  

Here, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With unforgettable characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, The Second Opinion will keep you guessing...and looking over your shoulder.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

DE FØRSTE TRE KVINDER DØR. DEN FJERDE ER IKKE SÅ HELDIG … Alison Willets kan se, høre og føle, men hun kan ikke røre sig og ikke tale. Hun lider af locked-in syndrome. Politiet tror, at morderen har begået en fejl ved at efterlade Alison i live, men kriminalkommissær Tom Thorne...

Stemningen i Europa er blevet mere dyster. Mafiaen er stærkere end nogensinde, narkotikamarkedet er blevet mere avanceret, og metoderne er blevet mere voldelige – ­noget, som Paul Hjelm og hans kolleger i Opcop har måttet erfare på den hårde måde. Men nu er mafiaen truet af en uventet...

Stjålne biologiske våben fra Syrien. Et forsvundet passagerfly i Malaysia. Dødsfald blandt unge på et diskotek i København. Og en religiøs sekt på Sjælland. Hvordan hænger det sammen? Det bliver eksperten i biologiske våben, Jacob Detlev, sat til at finde ud af i et hæsblæsende...

Mange døde efter et angreb på et fodboldstadium. En kendt animationsfigur og en flygtet livstidsfange på hævntogt. Og en række gamle voldtægtssager i Irland. Det er centrale begivenheder, som politiet og efterretningstjenesten beder Jacob Detlev om hjælp til at opklare i sin egenskab af...

Et folketingsvalg i Danmark. En virusudvikler fra Rusland. En forladt mineby på Svalbard. Og en kompromisløs højreekstremist i København. Alt i alt en dødelig cocktail. ​Da et muligt biologisk angreb på det danske Folketing bliver opdaget, sættes virologen og eksperten i biologiske...

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. On her quest to find out...