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A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.

An Alternate Cover Edition for this ISBN can be found here. The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. 'Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologic expertise.' Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent disappearances in the city. Despite the cynicism of Detective Claudel who heads the investigation, Brennan is convinced that a serial killer is at work. Her forensic expertise finally convinces Claudel, but only after the body count has risen... Tempe takes matters into her own hands, but her determined probing places those closest to her in mortal danger. Can Tempe make her crucial breakthrough before the killer strikes again?

Angela en David Wilson zijn dolblij wanneer ze de kans krijgen hun hectische banen in een gigantisch ziekenhuis achter zich te laten. Ze vertrekken naar Vermont, waar ze een nieuw leven beginnen in een idyllisch provinciestadje. Zowel David, chirurg, als Angela, gespecialiseerd in de pathologie, kan aan de slag in het plaatselijke ziekenhuis. Het mooiste van alles is dat het ziekenhuis alle faciliteiten heeft voor de optimale verzorging van hun dochter Nikki, die aan een ernstige aandoening van de luchtwegen lijdt. Het gezin voelt zich al snel thuis in het stadje. Dan doet zich in het ziekenhuis een aantal raadselachtige sterfgevallen voor, die aanvankelijk alleen voor Angela's nieuwsgierigheid wekken. Maar als er plotseling ook een paar kinderen sterven die aan dezelfde ziekte als Nikki lijden, raken Angela en David in paniek.

Het gezicht van de vermoorde vrouw is onherkenbaar verminkt. Wie is zij? De politie roept de hulp in van forensisch beeldhouwer Eve Duncan; onder haar handen krijgen naamloze slachtoffers hun identiteit terug. Wanneer Eve de schedel vormgeeft, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven. Langzaam onthullen haar handen het gezicht van iemand die ze maar al te goed kent. Iemand die niet dood is. Nog niet. Dan blijkt Eves aangenomen dochter Jane een bizarre connectie met de zaak te hebben, waardoor ze samen betrokken raken bij de jacht op een moordenaar. Een jacht die leidt naar een verschrikkelijke confrontatie.

An account of Sun Shuyun's journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history: the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.

Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the eyes of the world - ever since a vicious acid attack destroyed the face of Hollywood actress Gina Prince. Then the reclusive Gina climbs into her car - and totally disappears. And as Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis lead the search for her, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque, labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any bad dream... How well did Alex ever understand his star patient Melissa? How could he have 'cured' her when he never even guessed at the evil and hatred that formed her inheritance?

The bestselling author ofWhen The Bough Breaks,Blood Test, andOver The Edgedelivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that he desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life--a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway. Also available on BDD Audio Cassette. From the Paperback edition.

Two great dynasties dominate modern America; the Geary family and the Barbarossa family. In this thriller, a young woman marries into the Geary clan, and discovers the profound, dark enigma that lies at its heart.

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Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake. Now someone must expose the unspeakable truth about this hospital. Or else an innocent child will die. And he won't be the last. The next victim is being wheeled into surgery right now.