Los doctores David y Angela Wilson creen haber alcanzado el sueño de su vida: trabajan en un moderno complejo hospitalario y viven en una apacible comunidad de Vermont, muy lejos de la vida estresante de las grandes metrópolis. Sin embargo, ese ambiente en apariencia idílico, oculta una terrible pesadilla que se cierne repentinamente sobre los Wilson: en el hospital empiezan a descubrirse casos de acoso sexual, violaciones y, lo más inquietante, una serie de pacientes mueren periódicamente de manera misteriosa, presentando síntomas idénticos e inexplicables.
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.
El mítico best seller que lanzó la carrera del maestro del thriller legal. Mitch McDeere, tras graduarse tercero en Harvard, recibe múltiples ofertas de prestigiosos bufetes. Aunque Bendini, Lambert & Locke no es el más famoso, le ofrece un sueldo inmejorable, una casa maravillosa y un BMW. Sin embargo, el trato incluye términos inesperados: archivos secretos, micrófonos ocultos, investigaciones del FBI y millones de dólares en actividades ilegales. Pronto, Mitch descubre que su trabajo soñado lo ha llevado a una espeluznante conspiración y a una aterradora verdad: nadie ha logrado abandonar Bendini, Lambert & Locke, y quienes lo han intentado no han sobrevivido para contarlo. La crítica ha elogiado la obra, destacando la maestría de Grisham en el género. The Washington Post lo describe como un "absoluto maestro", mientras que el San Francisco Chronicle lo califica de "rápido, implacable y lleno de tensión". Newsweek resalta su capacidad de atrapar al lector desde la primera página hasta la última. Autores como Jodi Picoult y Ken Follett también reconocen su talento, afirmando que es el mejor autor vivo de thrillers y un maestro de la novela legal. La historia promete mantener al lector enganchado desde los primeros capítulos hasta un final sorprendente.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
