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An insomnia pandemic is sweeping the globe, leaving people unable to function and society on the brink of collapse.... Dr. Cooper Delaney believes he has the answer: Nocturnal, a new sleep-aid - one with absolutely no side-effects - which in early testing shows 100 percent effectiveness. The only problem is, it doesn’t work. With no warning.

P.I. Nick Sperry investigates the disappearance of Sidney Ryder. Nick's girlfriend, Melissa, brought the child to Sunshine Children's Home, D.C. eight years ago. Nick isn't fooled when the federal orphanage claims to have no record of her son. As an ex-CIA agent, Nick understands the immoral capabilities of the US government. Fueled by suspicion, he discovers Sidney isn't the only lost orphan.

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister, Patty, were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed. Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the “Shadow Man”. Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister’s murder, Lauren, now a kidnapping investigator, enrolls in a clinical trial for a new memory drug. At the offices of Memory Makers in California, she receives the injections of the Memory Makers' serum and begins to experience flashbacks of repressed memories.

Jack Wilson, a recently demoted RCMP officer, has given up on life after losing his grandfather to a deadly virus that has the world in its grips. Dr. Michael Chung has the secrets to the vaccine for the viral disease that is the cause of the pandemic. Dr. Emily Rogers pushes her work aside to travel to China, to pursue the truth about the mystery her late father revealed in a letter. Emily recruits Jack to go to China and convince Dr. Chung to help them develop a vaccine for her.

Kasper Wallace is a screwup. Everything he tries to do in life falls apart. He struggles to rise above his troubles until the day a global pandemic gives him a purpose. His years of immersion into the apocalypse scenarios of books, movies, and video games, provides him with the knowledge that makes him a survival asset. But, is it enough to fight an invisible invader that sickens and turns its victims into something much more threatening? The virus shows no mercy or prejudice. It is violent and swift and the after-effects of its rage leaves the human race at the edge of extinction.

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen. Their numbers are growing, and their very existence threatens the stability of the city and the future of biotechnology.

Андрей Круз - российский писатель, автор нескольких циклов и отдельных романов в жанре боевой фантастики. Своим творчеством вызвал волну подражателей; в их числе те, чьи сюжеты разворачиваются в мирах, придуманных им. Один из самых известных циклов Андрея Круза - Эпоха мёртвых.

As if her life wasn't complicated enough, people start dropping like flies in her rural ER. As she looks for the cause, she gets caught in a web of deception and death, threatening everything she loves. Using her courage and medical knowledge, Emma fights the fight of her life to protect those she holds dear. Will she destroy the evil, or will it crush her first?

The crusade to expose unethical practices by AlzCura Pharmaceuticals and the deaths caused by their miracle Alzheimer’s cure intensifies, but the suicide of a person of interest and an astonishing response to the evidence from the Food & Drug Administration threatens to unravel the efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice.

Dr. Takoda Wells risks everything to find the GODD Chip, a banned gene therapy that might just save the human race. Set in the year 2137, this post-apocalyptic technothriller takes place amid the aftermath of the Genetic Revolution of the 2070s, an era during which the craze of designer babies and gene replacement therapies led to generations of horrible mutations and the eventual worldwide ban on DNA alterations. Now, a new outbreak of mutations threatens to wreak even more havoc.

When the beautiful Kit goes to meet an anonymous stranger - who's been sending her roses - the man drops dead at her feet before she even could even get his name. Game on. Andy Broussard soon learns that the man carried a lethal pathogen similar to the deadly Ebola virus. Soon, another body turns up with the same bug. Panic is imminent as the threat of pandemic is more real than ever before.

Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs, and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever....

Natalie King has been hired to do a psychiatric evaluation for the children’s court. A simple custody dispute. But nothing is ever simple. Malik claims his ex-wife, Jenna, is crazy and compulsive; Jenna claims Malik has been abusing their daughter, Chelsea. But what if all the claims are true? Or none? How can Natalie protect the child? And with both parents saying they’re desperate to keep their daughter safe - what if one of them is desperate enough to kill?

New Orleans criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, lately drowning in personal doubts about her life and career, thinks that investigating the corpse she found in the garden of her new home will be the perfect distraction. Together with her boss, chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, she sets out to solve this case that seems plain unsolvable. Though they identify the body as a missing hooker, now dead 27 years, all hope of conviction still seems lost.

Don Donaldson brings us to the famous French Quarter with our favorite dynamic detective duo in this gripping thriller. New Orleans's chief medical examiner, Andy Broussard, and his assistant, criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, set off to investigate a series of violent serial murders. Examinations of the victims have led them to discover that each one's throat was ripped out with two tools: a garden fork and something unrecognizable.

En ung, känslig student från en sömnig småstad i Irak blir vittne till hur hans pappa blir förödmjukad av tanklösa amerikanska soldater under en bröllopsfest. Han blir stum av aggressivitet och ger sig så småningom iväg till Bagdad för att ansluta sig till en terroristcell. Besatt av tanken på att hämnas får han ett självmordsuppdrag. Med ett virus i kroppen ska han bege sig till London för att smitta ner västvärldens befolkning.

Röntgenhoitaja Laura Aromaan rauhallinen iltavuoro muuttuu painajaiseksi, kun hänen kimppuunsa hyökätään Vaahteran sairaalan röntgenarkistossa. Röntgenosaston henkilökunta kärsii omituisista aistiharhoista ja osaston koneet ja laitteet tuntuvat jatkuvasti reistailevan. Tapahtumissa ei vaikuta olevan päätä eikä häntää. Vartija Jari Viirilän päänvaivana ovat sairaalan outojen tapahtumien lisäksi huhut potilastietosuojan pettämisestä.

Hudiksvall, 1979. En familj på fyra personer hittas döda vid middagsbordet tillsammans med en oidentifierad gäst. När de märkliga dödsfallen skall utredas morgonen därpå svartnar det plötsligt för ögonen på den unge obducenten. Då han vaknar är ett av liken spårlöst försvunnet. Nitton år senare får rättsmedicinaren David Lagerquist ett tips om händelsen och bestämmer sig för att utforska saken närmare.

När rättsmedicinaren och köldforskaren David Lagerquists far hittas död i sin bil misstänker David att fadern har blivit mördad. Bevisen är visserligen undermåliga men han får oväntad hjälp av den mentalt sjuke Isak som han träffar på psykiatriska kliniken i Kalmar. Isaks kusliga berättelser leder David allt närmare ett svar och ute på det karga Fårö väntar den slutliga uppgörelsen med mördaren. Skendöd är Kalmarläkaren Per Källéns första thriller i serien om rättsmedicinaren David Lagerqvist. En stark debut som rosats av både kritiker och läsare.

Ingen kan hjælpe dig. Ingen kan høre dig skrige... I de mørke skygger i en gyde i Bostons Chinatown har man fundet en hånd. På taget ovenover ligger en kvindes afskårne hoved. To ikke-menneskelige hårstrå er det eneste spor, kriminalassistent Jane Rizzoli har at gå efter, men de er nok til, at hun og retsmediciner Maura Isles gør en overraskende opdagelse. Dette voldelige overfald har en grum forhistorie.