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Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for years for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the international Space Station.

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.

Forensic pathologist Maura Isles unzips a body bag and gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. The woman is rushed to hospital, where she murders a guard and siezes hostages, including a heavily pregnant Detective Jane Rizzoli. No one knows who this woman is or what she wants. Only Jane, trapped with the madwoman, can solve the mystery. If she survives the night.

'I have sinned.' The words are scrawled in blood at the most shocking murder scene forensic pathologist Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli have ever witnessed. The victim, a young woman, has been entirely drained of blood and horrifically dismembered. When there's a second murder, the police uncover a link to a secret society known as the Mephisto Club. Their mission is a terrifying one - to find the true source of evil on earth. But has evil already found them?

Pathologist Maura Isles has dissected her fair share of corpses. But this time, it's different, because the victim looks exactly like her. Detective Jane Rizzoli is assigned to investigate and finds herself tracking a twisted killer across the country. To catch him, Maura is forced to delve into a dark and dangerous family history - her own. Blood ties are the hardest to escape.

Rizzoli and Isles return in the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen. Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles are investigating the gruesome murder of a nurse, whilst also protecting a young student from a stalker. But immersed in their day jobs, will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home?

When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for more than a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did she die? It is the 1930s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy. It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer who slips from ballrooms to graveyards and into autopsy suites.

Forensic pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror, she realises that it's not as ancient as they thought - a very modern bullet is showing up on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second - and then a third - mummified body. Who is this killer, and why does he preserve his victims so meticulously? And who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?

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.

No ambiente frio e sombrio de um antiquário em Roma, a violinista americana Julia Ansdell depara com uma partitura intrigante—a valsa “Incêndio”—e é imediatamente atraída pela peculiar composição. Carregada de paixão, tormento e de uma beleza arrepiante—e aparentemente inédita aos olhos do mundo—a valsa com seu tom menor fúnebre e seus arpejos febris parece ter vida própria. Determinada a dominar a obra complexa, Julia decide ser o instrumento que fará com que sua melodia seja ouvida.

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.