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Am Hamburger Elbufer wird ein Mann mit einem Dolch in der Schläfe tot aufgefunden. Mord, allem Anschein nach - Hauptkommissar Alexander Rieker von der Mordkommission beginnt mit den Ermittlungen. Die Spur führt zu einem Start-up namens Harmony, das in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten steckt. Ein neu entwickeltes Mittel, "Sleepless", soll dem Unternehmen aus der Krise helfen. Es bietet Menschen die Möglichkeit, teilweise oder ganz auf Schlaf zu verzichten, ohne müde zu werden.

Millionen Infizierte, kein Impfstoff - und ein perfider Plan! Die Verlobte des US-amerikanischen Investigativjournalisten Gideon Connor erkrankt an einer extrem seltenen Form von Leukämie. Connor forscht nach Wegen, das Leben seiner Verlobten zu retten - aber was er herausfindet, übersteigt seine schlimmsten Vorstellungen: Die Krankheit wird vom Retrovirus HTLV-1 ausgelöst, mit dem bereits über 20 Millionen Menschen auf der Welt infiziert sind.

Die Welt, wie wir sie kannten, existiert nicht mehr! Ein fremdartiges Toxin verbreitet sich rasend schnell. Wer damit infiziert wird, verwandelt sich innerhalb von Sekunden in einen vor Wut rasenden Berserker, der seine Mitmenschen anfällt und zerfetzt, bevor er selbst stirbt. Niemand weiß, wer hinter der Verbreitung des Gifts steckt. Klar aber ist: In einer Gesellschaft am Rande des Zusammenbruchs sind die Infizierten nicht dein größer Feind.

Es ist nichts Geringeres als eine medizinische Sensation: Durch die Entdeckung eines neuen Wundermittels kann der Alterungsprozess des Menschen aufgehalten werden! Wer das Medikament regelmäßig nimmt bleibt nicht nur ewig jung, er ist auch schöner und stärker als "normale" Menschen. Doch die neue Wunderdroge hat einen Haken: Man braucht dazu das Blut von Menschen, deren DNA eine besondere Sequenz aufweist. Oft werden diese "Träger" entführt und in Blutfarmen gefangen gehalten.

Während sich die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan von einem neurochirurgischen Eingriff erholt, erhält sie eine Reihe von rätselhaften Nachrichten nebst Fotos von einer Leiche ohne Gesicht und Händen. Wer ist dieser Tote, und warum schickt man ausgerechnet ihr diese Bilder? Um Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen zu finden, muss Tempe den vorgeschriebenen Dienstweg verlassen - denn ihr neuer Vorgesetzter will sie um jeden Preis von dem Fall fernhalten. Je mehr sie aufdeckt, desto düsterer erscheint das Bild.

Ein neuer Fall für Ermittlerin, Wissenschaftlerin und Kultfigur Tempe Brennan. Während sich die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan von einem neurochirurgischen Eingriff erholt, erhält sie eine Reihe von rätselhaften Nachrichten nebst Fotos von einer Leiche ohne Gesicht und Händen. Wer ist dieser Tote, und warum schickt man ausgerechnet ihr diese Bilder? Um Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen zu finden, muss Tempe den vorgeschriebenen Dienstweg verlassen - denn ihr neuer Vorgesetzter will sie um jeden Preis von dem Fall fernhalten.

In this audiobook lives the final seven original stories of survival, suspense, and satire from the Sage of the Salish Sea - the most special season of a seasoned specialist. He will amuse you with his wit and wisdom, and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight.

You must really love this place if you want to return so badly. Or perhaps you just want to spend some more special time with Doctor Sababa, our internal medical consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital. He would have amused you with his wit and wisdom and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight. Before there was artificial intelligence, he was the real thing, working in the mysterious old ways of a masterless samurai.

Dr. Julie Rees, a toxicologist and ER doctor, is stunned when her emergency room is flooded with teenagers from the same party, all on the verge of death. Julie knows the world of opioids inside and out, and she recognizes that there’s nothing typical about these cases. She suspects the teens took - or were given - fentanyl. But why did they succumb so quickly?

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.

A total of 0.63 seconds. That’s the amount of time Angela Brennan has to process the oncoming truck that destroys half of her family and irrevocably alters her life. Not long after the accident, death intervenes once more and snatches her remaining family member. Facing life alone, Angela returns to work as a cardiac surgeon, saving other people’s lives but questioning why hers was spared.

X Ways to Die continues the tense, multi-stranded story which begun with Motive X. It is at once an explosive, high-voltage thriller and a fearless exploration of the darkest side of human nature. To enter Stefan Ahnhem's world, with its interwoven plot-lines and sprawling cast of characters, is to put yourself in the hands of a master storyteller.

Camden mortuary assistant Cassie Raven has pretty much seen it all. But this is the first time she's come face to face with someone she knew on the slab. Someone she cared about. Geraldine Edwards, the teacher responsible for her returning to education after she got ensnared in a life of drugs. The woman who acted as a second mother to the orphaned Cassie. Deeply intuitive and convinced that she can pick up the last thoughts of the dead, Cassie senses that there must be more to the ruling of an accidental death.

At first the rules were simple: quarantine the city and let the plague die. So men and women closed their doors and lived in lockdown, fighting for survival against a disease as contagious and destructive as the Black Death. A disease for which there was no known cure. But the plague did not die. And so, at lunchtime on a Friday afternoon, the president announces the new rules. Every American should take up arms to protect the disease-free zones. Anyone attempting to leave the plague-zone must be shot.

A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains. The chief surgeon performs a C-section and delivers a catastrophically malformed foetus that is somehow alive.... Sewage engineer Gemma is plunged into a ghostly darkness in the tunnel where she works. She escapes, but her boss goes missing in the chaos. He is later found alive...but his legs have been severed and his eyes pulled out.

Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing. But in the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen’s leading medical centers, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbles upon a macabre find: the naked body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguination - the draining of all the blood in her body.

After an exchange student with bubonic plague turns up in a Reno hospital, a contractor with identical symptoms dies in Los Angeles. The government‘s official stance is that the cases are isolated and the outbreak is under control. But George Mack, a 30-year public health veteran, quickly realizes this is no ordinary plague. The death toll is too high, and the spread pattern make no sense. As Reno’s hospitals fill with victims, Mack begins to believe that there is more to the epidemic than the CDC is letting on - and that he must take drastic steps if he hopes to save his city.

A legal and political thriller ripped from today’s headlines. Michael MacDougall volunteers for a medical aid charity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Traumatized by his experiences in Africa, he goes down a path that he never would have imagined possible, resulting in a global manhunt and a riveting trial.

After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria’s secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber’s humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once-prominent surgical career, cutting hair in Hamilton, Ontario, seems a safe way to make a living, until a fellow Syrian is slashed to death in the barbershop.

A young psychiatric patient disappears from her ward in the dead of night. Eva Jansen’s medical records have been wiped, her history buried. Somebody wanted all trace of her extinguished forever — and fast. When forensic psychologist Alex Madison is tipped off that Eva possesses an extraordinary ability, he knows he must find her before she falls into the wrong hands. Her dangerous gift has eerie echoes of his previous cases, and he’s convinced there’s a connection to the sinister criminal network he’s been hunting for years.