Medical

The handsome DR. SKELTON REDD is becoming famous for his innovative method of solving murders. But along with celebrity can come jealousy and desire, mystery and intrigue. In a tale of friendships and love, a dynamic new lust may shape matters in a twisting chase amid life and death. When young DR. CASSIE JANSEN joins the Medical Examiner’s team, her ambition and allure threaten to disrupt everything that’s been normal in Redd’s life, including his marriage, reputation, and career.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Ogni corpo cela segreti…. Jayne e Steelie hanno fondato l’Agenzia 32/1 con un unico scopo: sfruttare le loro competenze di specialiste forensi per aiutare la polizia a identificare i cadaveri di persone scomparse. Quando un furgone perde un carico di resti umani congelati sulla superstrada di Los Angeles, l’agente dell’FBI Scott Houston non esita a coinvolgere le due antropologhe nelle indagini, chiedendo loro di effettuare un post-mortem non ufficiale. Ma con orrore di tutti, Jayne e Steelie capiscono subito che i resti non provengono da un solo cadavere.

Every asylum has its secrets. Some refuse to stay buried. When ambitious young psychiatrist Dr. Eleanor Harper accepts a position at the recently reopened Ashwood Asylum, she’s determined to leave behind the mistakes—and the darkness—of her past. But Ashwood is not what it seems. The staff are wary, the patients too familiar. Whispers in the halls seem to call her by name. Mirrors reflect a version of herself that she doesn’t recognize. The deeper Eleanor immerses herself in her work, the more the edges of reality begin to fray.

When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient death of her best friend, she becomes determined to find answers—even if it leads her to a murderer, and even if confronting authority, using her wiles, and bending the rules to get justice risks her future in the FDA. To unravel the puzzle, Carrie assembles a team: some talented post-doctoral fellows, a quirky pharmacologist, an unctuous chemist, and a skeptical FBI agent that she can’t help her attraction for.