Medical

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit....

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past....

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her....

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon....

From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War....

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of internship at County Hospital.

She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. sexy surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved....

Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape....

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital.

He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago....

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi....

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller....

Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, the FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate....

Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman....

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 forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner....

Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered....

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, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why....

Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a killer who taunts her with his every move...and who has a special affinity for blood....

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy'—a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice....

I'm twenty-six years old, and I want to die. So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn't expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own.

Following the post mortem of a stowaway that reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information....

Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, hosts an F1 race, the largest sporting event in the city's history and a prime target for terrorism. With over a half million people descending on the Strip for the event, a bomb detonated in a parking garage days before the race.

Athanasios Pappakouris. Neurosurgeon. Greek. Arrogant. Sexy. Billionaire. He’s the best at what he does, with the world at his feet—and now he’s decided the woman whose life he saved will be his wife. “He saved my life, pulled me back from a coma—now he’s decided I belong to him.” Billionaire Athanasios Pappakouris, the world’s foremost authority on neurosurgery and known as “God” in the medical community, has the world at his feet. Sexy, famous, and revered wherever he goes, the Greek decides it’s finally time to start a family—the one thing missing from his life of...

Detective Ryan Boone just can't let this case go. While the mystery behind the robbery and murders in Twisted was uncovered a few months back, there is still a very large loose thread that Boone desperately wishes to tie up. He convinces his superiors to allow him to travel to Ottawa, where he's uncovered a lead into a conspiracy that hints what happened in Toronto has nationwide, and horrific, implications. Former detective Cora Porter has moved to forensics, but when a strange case hits close to home, she squeezes her way into the investigation.

Dr. Jim Bob Brady receives a call from Burnet County Sheriff Joan Wilcox, now a family friend, asking for his help in solving several murders in her jurisdiction. After years of trying to weasel his way into criminal investigations, he is taken aback, but not yet humbled, by her request. As Brady delves into the heinous crimes, in which each victim has been slain by a hatchet-like weapon, he discovers a common thread: each victim is missing their driver’s license. After study into the lives of the victims, he also finds that each has at one time been a patient in the same mental health ...

El Doctor Perry prefiere a sus pacientes ancianos, solos y sin amor. Porque nadie los extraña cuando desaparecen... Oculto de un pasado traumático, el jubilado Elijah Cone pasa sus días en la residencia de ancianos Rose Haven de Florida esperando que la muerte lo libere de su culpa abrumadora y del dolor cada vez más intenso de su artritis. Pero Elijah no es el único que guarda un secreto. El médico residente de Rose Haven también tiene un secreto relacionado con los cadáveres de sus pacientes ancianos. Incluso podría llamarse un trabajo secundario mortal. Obligados a luchar por ...

When three patients at a psychiatric hospital are found dead, all victims of a mysterious contagion, Detective Rylee Hayes knows she's dealing with a killer unlike any she's ever faced. And when a woman is found dead in her shower, her neck punctured by a deadly dart, she recognizes the work of her old nemesis. With two killers on the loose and the clock ticking, she’s desperate to protect her fiancée, and prevent a global pandemic. In Deadly Deception, the stakes are high, and the danger is real. Hold onto your seat.

Tucked away in a corner of Europe, a land-locked country is run by paranoid dictator Viktor Rachmanil who is in serious danger of losing his life as his liver slowly fails. Only a transplant can save him. Rachmanil is willing to go to any lengths to make sure he has a new liver from the right donor. As he sets his team on a search for the donor, deadly family secrets are revealed and a train of events is started that threatens Rachmanil’s iron grip on the country. The intrigue deepens as romantic sparks fly between Rachmani’s daughter and the Italian surgeon flying in to conduct the ...

Convocata d'urgenza durante la notte di capodanno, la dottoressa Kay Scarpetta deve esaminare il corpo di Ted Eddings, un reporter investigativo ucciso mentre stava facendo un'immersione non autorizzata nelle acque ghiacciate dell'arsenale di Norfolk. Ma cosa stava cercando di così importante il giornalista? E chi ha voluto impedirgli di trovarla?Per scoprirlo Kay dovrà affrontare ancora una volta un'indagine ad alto rischio.

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He renunciado a los hombres para centrarme en el trabajo de mis sueños, que empiezo el lunes, pero mi mejor amiga me convence para que me divierta una última noche, así que me organiza una cita a ciegas. Acepto porque él se va a ir a África con Médicos sin Fronteras en unos días. Sin duda, es la mejor cita de mi vida. El doctor África me hace reír y me pone tanto, tanto, que quiero hacerle un examen físico completo. Es así como se convierte en el doctor Aventura-de-una-noche, y no siento el más mínimo remordimiento por ello.

Michelle will never get tired of the view from her office window. Jagged mountains—and the wintry streets of Reykjavik, Iceland. It's a perk of her new job at Kimia Pharmaceuticals. Her old life—a dreary 9-to-5 and a cheating ex back in London—already feels a million miles away. Still, there's something strange about Michelle's new colleagues. They're all young, beautiful . . . and aloof. But then Michelle meets Lars, a jittery researcher from the restricted upper floors. She thinks she's alone in the elevator, until he squeezes between the doors. Just in time.

Remi's chest constricted painfully as she struggled to breathe. Rushed to the hospital, she received mysterious treatment due to a medical error, which miraculously stopped the asthma attack and restored her breathing. While she felt healthier than ever before, along with this astonishing recovery came peculiar abilities and Remi couldn't shake off the sense of foreboding. This miraculous healing may have come at a cost that she wasn't prepared to pay.

Never the Same Love Twice tells the story of a woman who attempts to be all things to all people, representing the continued coming of age of the modern female. This novel will offer hope to listeners who are trying to make sense of life experiences and those who choose to turn tragedy into transformation.

Hauptmann Tanja Storm glaubte, ihr gefährliches Leben hinter sich gelassen zu haben. Als Ausbilderin an der Offiziersschule führt sie einen ruhigen Alltag, der ihr genügend Kraft gibt, um ihrem Sohn William bei den täglichen Herausforderungen im Rollstuhl zu helfen. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne. Ein verzweifelter Hilferuf zieht Tanja in eine lebensgefährliche Mission im bürgerkriegsgeplagten Mali. Ihr enger Freund Albert wurde von einer brutalen Rebellengruppe entführt.

Frank's six-year-old daughter Maddie is sick. Very sick. Her mother is out of town and he's on his own to handle the emergency. But the doctors can't find anything wrong and money is quickly running out. Frank is desperate, and he begins to consider the unthinkable. Shelly is a social worker with a pill problem. When a case spins out of control, she finds herself out of pills and at the end of her rope. Then she gets a call to check into a tip from an EMT: A father who may be making his own daughter ill. Will Shelly intervene in time, or will she fail to save a child... again?

O doutor Daniel tem um compromisso importante. Afinal, todos os compromissos eram importantes para um jovem advogado que busca se estabelecer em sua profissão. Cada detalhe conta. Contudo, nesta tarde de terça-feira em específico sua pontualidade é comprometida pelo inconveniente de um quase atropelamento de uma lavadeira distraída que anda pelas ruas com uma pilha de roupas sem se dar ao trabalho de prestar atenção no tráfego. E que, para piorar, após o acidente exige ser levada de volta para casa de carruagem para compensar os danos causados.