Resultado de "Tess Gerritsen" em Todas as categorias

Jane Rizzoli y Maura Isles, -en quienes se inspiró la exitosa serie de TNT- continúan con su exitosa racha de resolución de crímenes. Se esconde. Las mata. Las conserva. A la patóloga forense Maura Isles le solicitan asistir a un examen intrigante. Una momia antigua ha sido encontrada en el sótano de un museo, lo que causa gran entusiasmo mediático. Horrorizada, comprueba que no es tan antigua como pensaban... una bala muy moderna aparece en la pantalla. La detective Jane Rizzoli debe investigar y pronto descubre un segundo cadáver momificado y luego un tercero.

Una bella mujer anónima parece ser solo otro cadáver más en la morgue. Tras un supuesto suicidio, yace sobre una camilla, aguardando el bisturí de la médica forense Maura Isles. Pero cuando Maura abre la bolsa que contiene el cadáver y lo mira, se lleva el susto de su vida. El cadáver abre los ojos. La mujer está indudablemente viva, y tras ser llevada al hospital, con serena y espeluznante precisión mata a un guardia de seguridad y toma varios rehenes... uno de los cuales es una paciente embarazada, Jane Rizzoli.

Al regresar de un viaje de negocios a París, la Dra. Maura Isles se encuentra su casa de Boston precintada como la escena de un crimen. La víctima, para asombro de Isles, no solo es idéntica a ella, sino que todas las pruebas forenses confirman que podría tratarse de su hermana gemela. En compañía de su inseparable colega, la detective Jean Rizzoli, Isles iniciará una investigación que la llevará a indagar en aspectos de su propio pasado que desconocía y que no podía haber imaginado ni en sus peores pesadillas.

El Club Mefisto es el sexto libro de la afamada serie Rizzoli & Isles y la inspiración detrás de el éxito televisivo. "HE PECADO." Las palabras están escritas con sangre en la escena del crimen más atroz que la patóloga forense Maura Isles y la detective Jane Rizzoli han presenciado en su vida. El asesino ha desangrado a la víctima y la ha desmembrado horriblemente. Cuando ocurre un segundo asesinato, la policía descubre un vínculo con una sociedad secreta llamada el Club Mefisto. Su misión es aterradora: encontrar el verdadero origen del mal sobre la tierra.

Un asesino silencioso se desliza en las casas de las mujeres y entra en las habitaciones mientras ellas duermen. La precisión de las heridas que les inflige sugiere que es un experto en medicina, por lo que los diarios de Boston y los atemorizados lectores comienzan a llamarlo "el cirujano". La única clave de que dispone la policía es la doctora Catherine Cordell, víctima hace dos años de un crimen muy parecido. Ahora ella esconde su temor al contacto con otras personas bajo un exterior frío y elegante, y una bien ganada reputación como cirujana de primer nivel.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

In this propulsive, “nonstop read” (USA TODAY) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Night, a NASA doctor is in a deadly race against time to destroy a lethal microbe as it multiplies in the International Space Station. Dr. Emma Watson’s lifelong dream of working and...

Die Leiche einer Namenlosen bereitet Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. M. J. Novak Kopfzerbrechen. Ein Bluttest offenbart eine unbekannte Substanz. War sie die Todesursache? Bei der Leiche findet M. J. eine Telefonnummer. Kurzerhand ruft sie dort an. Die Nummer gehört Adam Quantrel, dem Besitzer des Pharmakonzerns Cygnus. Dessen Stieftochter ist spurlos verschwunden. Das Streichholzheftchen gehörte ihr, doch die Tote ist nicht die Vermisste. Als eine zweite Leiche auftaucht, auch sie mit der unbekannten Droge im Blut, stellt M. J. auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen an.

No one takes readers to the dark side and back with more razor-sharp jolts and sheer suspense than the storytelling master behind Ice Cold and The Keepsake. When New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen has a tale to tell, put yourself in her expert hands and prepare for the shocks and thrills that are certain to follow.

Es sieht nicht gut aus für Miranda Wood: Man hat ihren Ex-Geliebten Richard in ihrem Bett gefunden - erstochen. Aber so schnell, wie sie im Gefängnis sitzt, so schnell ist sie auch wieder auf freiem Fuß. Jemand hat die Kaution für sie gestellt. Bloß wer? Miranda kann nur Vermutungen anstellen. Ist es jemand, der ihr helfen will oder jemand, der sie benutzt? Zum Glück sucht Miranda nicht als einzige nach dem wahren Täter. Chase Tremain, Richards Halbbruder, ist ebenfalls auf der Suche nach dem Schuldigen.

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at 14, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn - until the Boston PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is one part of a killer’s mission.

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Cat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. And Cat's chief suspect is one of the city's most prominent citizens.

While visiting Julian “Rat” Perkins, the 16-year-old boy with whom she survived a terrible ordeal, Maura Isles is startled to learn that all the students at Evensong are survivors of violence. Isolated in the Maine wilderness, the boarding school teaches its students the science and investigative skills needed for a high-level crime fighting career. Meanwhile in Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli investigates the murder of Teddy Clock’s foster family, a slaughter that only Teddy survived.

In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables, cars are still in garages, and the town's residents have vanished into thin air. This is the disturbing setting where vacationing medical examiner Maura Isles and her traveling companions find themselves trapped during a ferocious snowstorm.

In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair — not human — cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling prequel.

Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill.

Il male esiste. Cammina per le strade e ha creato un nuovo, diabolico discepolo... Peccavi, "ho peccato". Il messaggio in latino è tracciato, insieme a strani disegni, sulle pareti di una casa in cui una donna è stata brutalmente assassinata. Lo scenario è da messa satanica e l'unico indizio è una telefonata partita dalla scena del crimine e diretta a Joyce O'Donnell, la psicologa nemica giurata di Jane Rizzoli, che segue le indagini affiancata dall'amica e anatomopatologa Maura Isles.

Due omicidi, due scene del crimine, due vittime che non sembrano aver nulla in comune. L'enigma sembra irrisolvibile per la detective Jane Rizzoli e il medico legale Maura Isles. Perché entrambi i cadaveri presentano mutilazioni agghiaccianti, ma non letali. E la causa di morte pare impossibile da determinare. Dentro di sé, Jane Rizzoli ha una sola certezza: quello non è che l'inizio. Eppure, la verità è là fuori, da qualche parte, qualcuno la sa. Ma chi?