When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue.
Returning from Paris to discover a murder victim in her driveway, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the victim looks exactly like her and is a twin sister she never knew.
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli. Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer's identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis.Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it if she survives the night. From the Hardcover edition.
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop.
In April came the rains. In August came the heat. In November came the horror. Itâe(tm)s paying a return visit. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the temptations of the big city and the lingering memory of his fatherâe(tm)s death. And sheâe(tm)s hopeful that she can earn the trust of the town as she builds a new practice. But all her plans unravel with the onset of winter when a rash of teenage violence, far more deadly than anything sheâe(tm)d encountered in the city, erupts in the local school. As she tries to find a medical explanation for this murderous epidemic, Claire stumbles upon an insidious evil which has blighted the townâe(tm)s past and threatens its future. Fearful that Noah, too, is at risk, she must race to prove her theory before everything she loves is destroyed.
Een vrouwelijke reclasseringsambtenaar probeert een van haar cliënten ondanks aanslagen op haarzelf, haar kinderen en haar cliënt van alle blaam te zuiveren.
Hoe ik de beruchtste gevangenis van Teheran overleefde - druk 1
Het is deels jeugdig enthousiasme en deels verliefdheid op een student waardoor Zarah Ghahramani (1981) meedoet aan een demonstratie. Haar eerste politieke daad leidt tot een hel als ze door de geheime politie wordt meegenomen naar de beruchtste gevangenis van Teheran...
Zij krijgt de schrik van haar leven... Een naamloze, mooie vrouw schijnt niet meer dan de volgende dode in het lijkenhuis te zijn. Maar als patholoog-anatoom Maura Isles de lijkenzak openritst, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven. Het lijk opent de ogen. De nog levende vrouw wordt bliksemsnel naar het ziekenhuis overgebracht. Maar iets bizars verandert in iets dodelijks. Met schokkende, koelbloedige precisie vermoordt ze een bewaker en gijzelt enkele mensen. Waaronder een zwangere patiënt: rechercheur Jane Rizzoli. Wie is deze gewelddadige vrouw en wat wil ze? Terwijl de uren van zinderende spanning doortikken, voegt Maura zich bij Janes echtgenoot, FBI-agent Gabriel Dean, in een poging de identiteit van de geheimzinnige moordenares te achterhalen. Alleen Jane, in de val met de gewapende, waanzinnige vrouw, bezit de sleutel tot het mysterie.... Als ze het overleeft.
