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Na ostry dyżur do szpitala w Springer w Bostonie zostaje przyjęty staruszek z objawami choroby Alzheimera. Wstępne badanie nie ujawnia żadnych dolegliwości neurologicznych. Podejrzewając udar mózgu, doktor Toby Harper nakazuje wykonanie tomografii komputerowej. W czasie, gdy reanimuje kolejnego pacjenta, jej podopieczny dosłownie rozpływa się w powietrzu.

Kilkanaście dni później do szpitala trafia mężczyzna z takimi samymi objawami, jak u nadal nie odnalezionego Harry’ego Slotkina. Obu wcześniej leczył doktor Carl Wallenberg. Pacjent umiera, a Toby, wbrew woli Wallenberga, aranżuje sekcję zwłok. Diagnoza nie pozostawia wątpliwości co do przyczyny śmierci: zarażenie chorobą szalonych krów.

Kilka innych tajemniczych zgonów, których wyjaśnieniem zajmuje się Toby, wskazuje coraz wyraźniej, że to nie epidemia, lecz rezultat czyjegoś świadomego działania. Tropy prowadzą do luksusowego domu opieki, w których Wallenberg i jego współpracownicy przeprowadzają eksperymenty medyczne na starcach, wszczepiając im hormony…

Doktor Kate Chesne, lekarz anestezjolog ze szpitala w Honolulu, jest przekonana, że z procesami sądowymi zmagają się wyłącznie inni. Pewnego dnia przekonuje się boleśnie, że również ona sama może zostać postawiona w stan oskarżenia. Dla mecenasa Davida Ransoma ma to być kolejne łatwe zwycięstwo. Sprawa wydaje się oczywista: błąd lekarki, który doprowadził do śmierci pacjentki. Jednak Kate nie zamierza poddać się bez walki i próbuje dowieść, że padła ofiarą spisku. Gdy w szpitalu dochodzi do serii kolejnych zabójstw, David zaczyna wierzyć, że nie tylko kariera Kate, lecz także jej życie jest w niebezpieczeństwie.

Trzymajacy w napieciu thriller medyczny mistrzyni tematu, glownej konkurentki Robina Cooka i Michaela Palmera. Doskonala lektura zwlaszcza dla tych, ktorzy maja watpliwosci co do funkcjonowania sluzby zdrowia…

Dwie osoby gotowe do operacji i tylko jedno serce, ktore mozna przeszczepic. Gdy doktor Abby DiMatteo podejmowala decyzje, by dokonac przeszczepu u umierajacego siedemnastolatka, nie przypuszczala, ze wywola tym lawine wydarzen. Kim jest czterdziestoszescioletnia, bogata kobieta, ktora, wedle przelozonych, winna byla otrzymac narzad? Tego Abby nie wie. Wie jednak, ze cos jest nie w porzadku – jak za dotknieciem czarodziejskiej rozdzki pojawia sie drugie serce i operacja moze sie odbyc. Cud? To malo prawdopodobne. W wyniku podjetych decyzji, prace traci przelozona kobiety, a sama Abby zaczyna stawiac sobie niewygodne pytania. Czy to mozliwe, ze narzady do transplantacji pochodza z nie do konca legalnych zrodel? Gdzie leza granice etyki lekarskiej? Dyrekcja nie zyczy sobie rozglosu, ale sumienie zmusza Abby do poprowadzenia prywatnego sledztwa.

Miranda's ex-lover is found murdered. She had a motive and the opportunity. After being arrested for the crime, Miranda is shocked to learn she's been released on bail-bail posted by someone determined to remain anonymous. Is someone trying to help Miranda? Or is someone trying to manipulate Miranda and draw her into the dark and secret world of a murdered man, where everybody's presumed guilty?

For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the road to Boston's Bayside Hospital began with a tragic accident — and the desperate, awful weeks that followed as she watched her little brother, Pete, lose his battle to live. Despite her small-town roots and lack of money, Abby pushed through college and medical school, each achievement strengthening her ambition to reach higher. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she's elated when the hospital' elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim's healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, forty-six-year-old Nina Voss. Abby and chief resident Vivian Chao hatch a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. The repercussions are powerful and swift; Dr. Chao resigns, bowing under the combined fury of the hospital's top staff and Nina Voss's outraged husband. Abby is shaken but unrepentant — until she meets the frail, tormented Nina. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery. The donor records have been falsified — Nina's heart has not come through the proper channels. Defying Bayside Hospital's demands for silence, Abby, with Vivian Chao's help, plunges into an investigation that reveals an intricate, and murderous, chain of deceptions.

The man emerged from the mist, right in front of Cathy Weaver's car--running from killers who were closing in on him. Victor Holland's story sounded like the ravings of a man on the brink of madness, but his claim to be a fugitive was confirmed by the haunted look in his eyes--and the bullet hole in his shoulder. As each hour brings pursuers ever closer, Cathy has to wonder, is she giving her trust to a man in danger or trusting her life to a dangerous man?

Położone nad jeziorem Locust miasteczko Tranquility wydawało się oazą spokoju. Doktor Claire Elliot osiedla się tutaj wraz ze swoim nastoletnim synem Noahem, w nadziei, że uchroni go przed niebezpieczeństwami wielkiego miasta. Niespodziewanie jeden z jej młodych pacjentów, kolega Noaha ze szkoły, popełnia zbrodnię. Niektórzy obwiniają o to lekarkę, która zmieniła chłopcu kurację przepisaną przez poprzedniego lekarza. W Tranquility szerzą się akty przemocy popełniane przez nastolatków, są kolejne ofiary śmiertelne. Psychoza zaczyna przyjmować rozmiary epidemii. Claire ujawnia, że podobne wydarzenia miały już miejsce w przeszłości – sto i pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej. W pobliżu jeziora wymordowano całe rodziny. Czy istnieje medyczne wyjaśnienie tej zagadki? Claire musi je szybko odkryć – aby uratować siebie i swojego syna…

Tess Gerritsen used to be a doctor, so it comes as no great surprise that the medical aspects of her latest thriller are absolutely convincing -- even if most of the action happens in where few doctors have ever practiced -- outer space.

Dr. Emma Watson and five other hand-picked astronauts are about to take part in the trip of a lifetime -- studying living creatures in space. But an alien life form, found in the deepest crevices of the ocean floor, is accidentally brought aboard the shuttle Atlantis. This mutated alien life form makes the creatures in Aliens look like backyard pets.

Soon the crew are suffering severe stomach pains, violent convulsions, and eyes so bloodshot that a gallon of Murine wouldn't help, brilliantly describes the difficulties of treating sick people a space module, and how the lack of gravity affects the process of taking blood and inserting a nasal tube. Dr. Watson does her best, but her colleagues die off one by one and the people at NASA don't want to risk bringing the platform back to earth. Only Emma's husband, doctor/astronaut himself, refuses to give up on her. As we read along, eyes popping out of our heads, all that's missing is one of bland NASA voices saying, "Houston, we have a problem -- we're being attacked by tiny little creatures that are part human, part frog, and part mouse."

Brutalny zabójca zabija młode samotne kobiety przeprowadzając na nich zabieg wycięcia macicy bez znieczulenia. Policja ustala, że podobna seria zabójstw miała miejsce dwa lata wcześniej, a ich sprawca został zastrzelony przez doktor Cordell – jedyną ofiarę, której udało się ujść z życiem. Teraz znów czuje się zagrożona. Jej sprzymierzeńcem jest detektyw prowadzący śledztwo. Czy obie sprawy i obu zabójców coś łączy?

He was a gentleman bandit, she was a cat burglar. And they caught each other in more ways than one. But their desire was as strong as their distrust, and Jordan Tavistock began to fear that Diana Lamb was more than just a thief of hearts.

In Boston, there’s a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician — a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.

But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and attempted murder but shot her attacker dead. Now she is being targeted by this new killer who seems to know all about her past, her work at the Pilgrim Medical Center, and where she lives.

The man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her…

The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths 20 years ago sends Beryl Tavistock on a search for the truth from Paris to Greece. As she enters a world of international espionage, Beryl discovers she needs help and turns to a suave ex-CIA agent. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies and enemies become killers.

When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply the head is nearly severed. She is dressed all in black, and the only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and a scrawled address of a long-shuttered restaurant. With its wary immigrant population, Chinatown is a closed neighbourhood of long-held secrets – and nowhere is this more obvious than when Jane meets Iris Fang. Strikingly beautiful, her long black hair streaked with grey, she is a renowned martial arts master. Yet, despite being skilled in swordplay, neither she nor her strangely aloof daughter, Willow, will admit any knowledge of the rooftop murder. And pathologist Dr Maura Isles has determined that the murder weapon was a sword crafted of ancient metal from China. It soon becomes clear that an ancient evil is stirring in Chinatown – an evil that has killed before, and will kill again – unless Jane and Iris can join forces, and defeat it…

In a world where nothing is as it seems, who can you trust?

TESS GERRITSEN'S

Never Say Die

Willy Jane Maitland traveled to Saigon to uncover what had happened to her father, missing in action twenty years ago. Instead she found intrigue – and murder. Only the rumpled and irreverent ex-soldier Guy Barnard seemed willing to help. But as Willy was about to discover, even Guy had his hidden motives, his shocking secrets… and Vietnam was a dangerous place to fall in love.

DEBRA WEBB'S

No Way Back

Michal Arad wanted vengeance when he kidnapped former CIA agent Ami Donovan, claiming she'd posed as his lover to set him up as an assassin. But Ami had amnesia and no way of knowing the truth… until Michal took her in his arms. In spite of her fear, Ami sensed Michal wasn't a ruthless killer, but the man she'd once loved… and the father of her child.

Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. Willy knows she can't proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives. What she is prepared for are the shocking secrets and undeniable attractions.

From Publishers Weekly

Gerritsen leaves the urban hospital setting of her first two successful thrillers (Harvest; Life Support) and steps into Stephen King territory?the troubled Maine town of Tranquility?with mixed results. The former doctor's ability to create credible characters and make medical details accessible and exciting provide the book's strongest moments, as Dr. Claire Elliot?recent widow from Baltimore?tries to make a go of her new life in Tranquility, where she has moved to get her son Noah, 14, away from dangerous influences. Irony of ironies: the country turns out to hold more savage dangers for the teen than the city ever did. Claire's struggles with the boy, her failure so far to win a place for herself in the hearts of prospective patients and a possible romance with the town's police chief are straightforward and moving. Harder to swallow is the book's premise?that savage outbreaks of violence among Tranquility's teenagers occur every 50-odd years, caused by natural or even supernatural factors. It's Claire who makes the connection between recent murders and older attacks, and of course there's the old "enemy of the people" subplot about not scaring off the tourist trade. The fact that Tranquility's teenage problem has a scientific solution lets Dr. Elliot have a final moment of triumph, but you can't help feeling that King would have made the story more powerful?and more fun. Major ad/promo; author tour; Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild super release; Mystery Guild main selection; simultaneous Simon Schuster audio.

From School Library Journal

YA-Tranquility, ME, sounds like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to relocate with her teenage son and help him deal with his father's death. However, as she begins her practice, so begins an epidemic of teen violence. The shooting of the school biology teacher and the violent ending to the big dance have Claire and the town police chief, Lincoln Kelly, searching hard for clues and answers. Are the blue mushrooms growing in the forest where local teens hang out the cause? Or is the mysterious green phosphorescence that appears on the lake where many of the young people swim the culprit? Claire's son suddenly and mysteriously becomes as wild and uncontrollable as his friends. This is a gory medical thriller that will keep YAs totally engaged.

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 fourteen, 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 instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer’s merciless mission.

Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong’s mysterious benefactors aren’t the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind.

Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children’s fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted quest.

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. Pero esta cuidadosa fachada está a punto de caer ya que el nuevo asesino recrea, con escalofriante precisión, los detalles de la propia agonía de Catherine. Con cada nuevo asesinato parece estar persiguiéndola y acercarse cada vez más…

Una llamada a medianoche despertó a la recién casada Sarah Fontaine. En lugar de oír la voz de su marido desde Londres, oyó la de un desconocido llamado Nick O'Hara que le decía que Geoffrey había muerto en el incendio de un hotel en Berlín. Convencida de que su marido estaba todavía vivo, Sarah decidió investigar por su cuenta con la ayuda de Nick. Había demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta, y las respuestas podían ser fatales…