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Respiratory therapist Erin Walsh notices the ventilators before the monitors do. The machines are operating within approved limits. Their settings appear correct. Their alarms remain silent. But patients are losing time between breaths, and the pattern grows harder to dismiss with every new...

Der Weg zu dir selbst ist kein Spaziergang! Eigentlich wollte Valerie nur kurz in die Stadt und dann ihren Sohn Lio von der Kita abholen. Doch als der Bus ohne sie abfährt, läuft sie einfach los. Valerie steckt fest: in der Überforderung des Alltags als Single-Mom und ihrem Drang, ihre Probleme durch Instagram-Self-Care-Posts zu analysieren. Doch auf ihrem ungeplanten Fußmarsch hilft kein Wischen und kein Tippen mehr.

Ronan McCoy ist nicht nur Brendans bester Freund: Er ist der Mensch, der Brendan vor der Welt schützt. Solange Ronan da ist, bleibt das Dunkle in ihm still. Zu Beginn des neuen Schuljahres – dem letzten, bevor sie aufs College gehen, ihre ersten Jobs annehmen oder von zu Hause wegziehen – wartet Brendan wie immer am Schultor. Doch Ronan taucht nie auf.

An elegiac novel of war and peace, of fathers and sons, of fading memory and the terror of what cannot be forgotten, Soldiers & Sailors follows the tortured career of Dr. Hal Adams. Pursued by a past he cannot bring himself to remember, Hal returns to his decaying Midwestern birthplace, where he...

Em uma narrativa tanto introspectiva quanto brutal, Antônio Xerxenesky nos faz encarar os traumas do passado, mas, principalmente, o medo do futuro. Livro vencedor do prêmio São Paulo de Literatura 2022. Nicolas, um jovem psiquiatra francês, é convidado para trabalhar na Suíça logo após...

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...

In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame.... It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior...

The world’s bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally. Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary...

From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Timesbestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before … The Book of the...

In From Potter’s Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately...

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on...

When Dr. Tom More (of Love in the Ruins) is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred and where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. Upon arriving, he notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual...

Michael Palmer, a skilled physician and veteran of big city emergency rooms, burst on the literary scene with The Sisterhood, a riveting medical thriller that instantly climbed the New York Times bestseller list. Palmer followed up that smashing debut with a string of major bestsellers, each one...

Featuring a preview of the highly anticipated new thriller Speaking in Bones, this eBook original novella showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs at the peak of her powers. In Bones on Ice, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan gets wrapped up in the ultimate cold case...

Respektert kirurg. Hengiven kone. Morder? Før verdenen min raste sammen, hadde jeg alt. Den vellykkede karrieren jeg hadde drømt om. Det vakre, røde murhuset der jeg kunne sitte og slappe av foran peisen. Den kjekke, trofaste ektemannen med de blå øynene og det sjarmerende smilet som...

Bliv indskrevet på eget ansvar ... Da Heather McKinley drømte om en fremtid som læge, forestillede hun sig, at hun skulle helbrede syge børn og gå med lyserøde stetoskoper. Hun havde ingen anelse om de søvnløse nætter, de opslidende eksaminer og de uendelige timer i laboratoriet, hun...

Efter mange års hårdt arbejde kan Dr. Charly McKenna endelig sætte kryds ved alt på sin ønskeliste. En blomstrende karriere som dermatolog? Tjek. Rummelig lejlighed med udsigt over Central Park? Tjek. Flot advokatmand? Dobbelt tjek. En nat går en kugle gennem højre side af hendes kranie...

Den rafflande fortsättningen på ”Sjuksköterskan”, av den bästsäljande författaren till ”Läkarens fru”. Jag skyr inga medel för att skydda dem jag älskar ... För bara några månader sedan var mitt liv enkelt. Jag tillbringade dagarna med att ta hand om mina patienter under...

En pulshöjande upplösning i serien som har trollbundit hundratusentals thrillerälskare världen över. Ett ögonblick kan förändra allt … eller förstöra ens liv för alltid. Mitt första misstag var att förälska mig i den stilige, gifta läkaren. Mitt andra misstag var att döda...