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Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he’s going to jail. Then, suddenly, he’s not. A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a big country house. Other 'gifted delinquents.’ The elusive, devastating Rachel, and Alex, so tightly wound he seems about to shatter. So where are they?...

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the listener into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians...

In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, What Rose Forgot, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare. Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed...

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they...

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians...

In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping...

In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind—and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by profit and greed. Trying to find some normalcy...

“An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.” —New York Post “Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark...

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...

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...

Dos médicos retirados de su ejercicio profesional se reencuentran para almorzar en la azotea del Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. El resultado será el choque estrepitoso con la realidad de dos compañeros que se reconocen en la vejez. Los personajes le abrirán al lector las puertas de un quirófano y de un ambiente que, para muchos, resulta desconocido. La lucha soterrada entre especialistas, los intereses e intrinquis de un caso medicolegal quedarán expuestos.

Autoironico e colto, ma irrimediabilmente maldestro, Noè Simenoni è un uomo irrisolto per colpa del destino che gli ha giocato brutti scherzi. Ex seminarista, conduce una vita dimessa, tenuta insieme con fatica, fatta di frustrazioni, conti che non tornano e responsabilità familiari: una sorella scapestrata, Valeria, e una nipotina gravemente malata, Greta, che per lui è una figlia a tutti gli effetti. Quando un potente cardinale lo convoca in Vaticano e gli propone un compito rischioso, ma ben retribuito, capisce che la sua esistenza e quella dei suoi cari potrebbe essere a un punto di svolta

Inspired by true events, Christy Hall of Fame author Cathy Gohlke delivers a powerful new historical novel weaving together the discovery of insulin―a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine―and one woman’s brave fight to cling to her family and hope against unspeakable odds. New...

A woman from Alan Gregory’s past draws him into a deadly mystery in this exhilarating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen White. Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to repair his insecure marriage when he makes an unexpected connection with the past. His...

Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and big-hearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the worm that is eating his braina metaphor her mother once used to explain Johns dementia and sundown syndromeshe helps him break out of his nursing home, and the...

Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer’s mind...

After You’d Gone is the groundbreaking debut novel from National Book Critics Circle Award winner Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. A stunning, bestselling novel of wrenching love and grief. Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family...

From one of the world’s top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel. A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta...