Mortal ​Remains

Kathy Reichs - Bones ​to Ashes
Under ​the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters... 'Preliminary diagnosis?' 'Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process? Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the above? I don't have a diagnosis...' The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something... It's not Tempe's case; she's overwhelmed with more urgent work in the lab... But the nagging in her subconscious won't let up. A memory triggered, deep in her hindbrain - the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation... Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn't have predicted where this case would lead, or the horrors it would eventually uncover... Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

Kathy Reichs - Break ​No Bones
It's ​the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr. Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach...The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue; the remains are encased in rotted fabric and topped by wisps of pale, blond hair - a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Dental remains and skeletal gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is a middle-aged white male - but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does the unusual vertical hairline fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae signify? While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. When a bullet - intended, perhaps, for her - puts Tempe's estranged husband Pete in hospital, her unexpectedly emotional response complicates her on-off relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan...But before long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking and chilling investigation, set to challenge her entire view of humanity...

Kathy Reichs - 206 ​Bones
Kathy ​Reichs, number one New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones, returns with a spectacular new novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives, and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. The twelfth Temperance Brennan novel from Kathy Reichs, 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Is she buried alive? In some kind of cell? Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy — and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's present-tense terror and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds. With a popular series on FOX — now in its fifth season and in full syndication — Kathy Reichs is firmly established as a dominant talent inforensic mystery writing. Her signature blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" (Entertainment Weekly) and intense suspense have made her a number one New York Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon.

Kathy Reichs - Síri ​titkok
1982-ben ​egy nyári reggelen katonák dúlták fel Chupan Ya falut. Asszonyokat és gyerekeket erőszakoltak meg és öltek meg. Állítólag huszonhárom áldozat maradványai hevernek abban a kútban, amit húsz évvel később Dr. Temperance Brennan és a Guetamalai Törvényszéki Antropológiai Alapítvány csapata tár fel. Tempe az észak-karolinai és montreali törvényszéki orvosi szakértő iroda antropológusa. Egy hónapos szolgálatot tölt Guatemalában, hogy segítsen néhány családnak azonosítani, és eltemetni a halottaikat. A nő egy hideg, nedves gödörben ás. Talál egy hajcsatot, néhány ruhafoszlányt, egy apró tornacipőt. Ásója egyszerre valami keménybe ütközik: egy legfeljebb két éves gyerek csípőjébe. Szívszorító munka. Valami kegyetlen történt itt húsz éve. Csakhogy az erőszak a mai napig nem ért véget. A csapat épp összepakolna aznapra, amikor sürgős műholdtelefon-hívás érkezik. Két kollégát megtámadtak. Lövések dördülnek, és Tempe rémülten hallja egy nő sikoltásait. Azután csönd. Síri csönd. Az új erőszakhullámmal minden megváltozik a csapat és Tempe számára is. A nőt ugyanis felkéri a guatemalai rendőrség egy másik ügyhöz szakértőnek. Négy fontos ifjú hölgy tűnt el Guatemalavárosból az elmúlt hónapok alatt. Egyikük a kanadai nagykövet lánya. Néhány maradványra bukkannak a víztisztító tartályban, Tempe pedig sajnos ért a víztisztító tartályokhoz. Bartolomé Galiano nyomozóval, Adrew Ryan montreali detektívvel kiegészülve - aki könnyen lehet, hogy nem csak szakmai okokból csatlakozik a nőhöz -, Tempe hamarosan egy veszedelmes hálóban találja magát, amely messze túlnyúlik Guatemala határain. A tét óriási. Amint a hatalom, pénz, kapzsiság és tudomány szálai összefutnak, Tempe kénytelen az egész életét megváltoztató döntéseket hozni. A Síri titkok letehetetlen izgalmakat ígér Tempe laboratóriumától kezdve egy hátborzongató találkozásig a kihalt hullaházban a bűnügyi történetek mesterének tollából, aki a hitelességet szellemes prózával ötvözi.

Kathy Reichs - Csont ​és bőr
A ​kissé tüskés modorú dr. Brennan törvényszéki patológus éppen egy XIX. században elhunyt apáca földi maradványainak kihantolását végzi Montrealban, amikor tűzesethez riasztják. Porig égett egy családi ház. A szakértők gázrobbanásra gyanakodnak. A romok között több holttestet találnak, s a maradványok vizsgálata közben nem egy gyanús körülmény felmerül. Például a tűz fellobbanása előtt miért lőtték agyon az egyik áldozatot, egy hetvenéves hölgyet? Egyáltalán, kié a ház? Miért nem elérhető a tulajdonosa? Megindul a nyomozás, s nem sokra rá előkerül egy iszonyatosan megcsonkított fiatal nő holtteste is. Tempe megszállottan dolgozik – bizonyos nyomok rituális gyilkosságra utalnak. Egyetemista lányok tűnnek el nyomtalanul, akiknek az ismerősei nem hajlandók segíteni a rendőröknek. Miért olyan riadtak, és ki félemlítette meg őket? A szálak Dél-Karolinába vezetnek, ahol hasonló esetek történtek. A szövevényes bűntény felderítése során Tempe is nemegyszer veszélybe kerül, ráadásul kissé kelekótya húga miatt is aggódnia kell, aki váratlanul megjelenik nála… A népszerű írónő, Kathy Reichs művei ihlették a nagy sikerű Dr. Csont című televíziós sorozatot.

Kathy Reichs - Halálos ​döntések
Dr. ​Temperance Brennan ( A TV sorozat Dr. CSONTja) újabb nyomozása. Egy balettórára tartó kilencéves kislány meghal, mert motoros bandák tűzharcába kerül. Erőszak önti el Montreal utcáit. Dr. Temperancen Brennannak, az állami törvényszéki antropológusnak kell felgombolyítani a szálakat. Tempe unokaöccse, Kit imádja a motorokat. De vajon megérti, milyen veszélyeket jelentenek a törvényen kívüli bandák?

Gillian Flynn - Holtodiglan
Egy ​meleg nyári reggelen a Missouri állambeli North Carthage-ben Nick és Amy Dunne ötödik házassági évfordulójára készülődik. A romantikus reggeli után a jóképű Nick okos és csodaszép felesége eltűnik. Nickre egyre nagyobb nyomás nehezedik a rendőrség, a média, valamint a lányukért elvakultan rajongó szülők részéről. Nick pedig valamiért folyamatosan hazudik és különösen viselkedik: furcsán ködösít és láthatólag megkeseredett - de valóban gyilkos? Amy naplója és Nick elbeszélése egy szépen induló, ám fokozatosan megromló kapcsolat klausztrofób, nyomasztó világába nyújt betekintést. A kérdés csupán az, ha nem Nick a tettes, akkor hová és miért tűnt el a szépséges feleség? És vajon mit rejt az ezüstpapírba csomagolt doboz a gardrób hátuljában? "Leleményes és alattomos thriller... Miközben a cselekmény egyre vadabb fordulatokat vesz, a szöveg egyben szellemes és okos kommentárja is a férfi-női kapcsolatok ingatag hatalmi viszonyainak, és megmutatja, hogy sokszor hatalmasabb erők játékszerei vagyunk." (Entertainment Weekly)

Kathy Reichs - Deadly ​Decisions
Violence ​is escalating, and spilling onto the streets of Montreal. A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. The body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has to pick up the pieces: she knows she shouldn't let emotion get in the way, but when nin-year-old Emily's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react. An exhumation uncovers the bones of another inocent in a clandestine grave close to a biker gang headquarters. With her boss in hospital and sparring partner Detective Andrew Ryan mysteriously unavailable, Tempe alone begins a perilous investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime...

Kathy Reichs - Seizure
The ​second novel in the Virals trilogy from #1 bestselling author and inspiration for the TV series Bones - Kathy Reichs! Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it! So when Tory learns of an old Charleston legend about a famous she-pirate, Anne Bonney, whose fortune was never found, she can't believe her luck - buried treasure is exactly what she needs to save the Institute on Loggerhead! Trouble is, she and her friends aren't the only ones looking for it. And this time, the Virals' special powers may not be enough to dig them out of trouble...

Gillian Flynn - Gone ​Girl
Marriage ​can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet? With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.

Kathy Reichs - Csont ​és vér
Dr. ​Temperance Brennan, miután a házassága tönkrement, Kanadába költözött, hogy új életet kezdjen. Montrealban dolgozik törvényszéki antropológusként. A lánya egyetemre jár az Egyesült Államokban, így az egyedülálló Tempe, aki sikeresen kilábalt alkoholizmusából, minden idejét a munkájának szenteli. A város egyik parkjában szemeteszsákokba csomagolt, oszló emberi maradványokat találnak. A szörnyű lelethez Tempe-et riasztják, akiben – egy korábbi eset kapcsán, bizonyos hasonlóságok alapján – felmerül a gyanú, hogy talán nem elszigetelt bűntényről van szó. Nyomozni kezd maga is, jóllehet rendőr kollégái ezt nem nézik jó szemmel, túlbuzgóságának tudják be a dolgot. Ám dr. Brennan szívósan kutakodik, s egyre több nyomra bukkan. Lehet, hogy sorozatgyilkos garázdálkodik a városban? Az újabb áldozatok felbukkanása arra mutat, hogy mégiscsak Tempe-nek van igaza, aki maga is halálos veszélybe kerül… A népszerű írónő, Kathy Reichs művei ihlették a nagy sikerű Dr. Csont című televíziós sorozatot.

Kathy Reichs - A ​csontok nem hazudnak
Motorosbandák ​csapnak össze Montrealban. Ezek az ijesztő csoportosulások többnyire a második világháború veteránjaiból alakultak Amerikában, s az évtizedek során hatalmas, határokon átnyúló szervezetté nőttek. Időről időre hatalmi harcok dúlnak az egyes bandák között. Egy ilyen utcai lövöldözés áldozatául esik egy kilencéves kislány is, aki épp balettórára igyekezett. Dr. Temperance Brennan törvényszéki antropológusra hárul a különösen szívfájdító feladat, hogy a lányka holttestét megvizsgálja. A nyomozás során újabb holttestek kerülnek elő az egyik banda főhadiszállása közelében, s a szálak múltbéli, mindeddig megoldatlan esetekhez vezetnek. Tempe a tőle megszokott elszántsággal és egy buldog szívósságával veti bele magát az ügybe, s aprólékos munkája nyomán meglepő összefüggésekre bukkan. Súlyosbítja a helyzetet, hogy a nála vendégeskedő unokaöccse, a Harley Davidson-rajongó Kit is gyanús alakok közé keveredett. Így Tempe-nek nemcsak önmagáért kell aggódnia, hanem a meggondolatlan fiúért is. Az életük egy hajszálon múlik… A népszerű írónő, Kathy Reichs művei ihlették a nagy sikerű Dr. Csont című televíziós sorozatot.

Kathy Reichs - Flash ​and Bones
Kathy ​Reichs—#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones—returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan. Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble’s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi’s? Or Cale’s? At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can’t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week? A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs’s “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication—and her most recent novel, Spider Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller—Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.

Patricia Cornwell - Red ​Mist
With ​high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace. Driven by inner forces, Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding’s death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.

Robin Cook - Marker
The ​master of the medical thriller returns with his most heart-pounding tale yet. Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City's Central Park. Within twenty-four hours of his surgery, he dies. A thirty-six-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee. And within twenty-four hours, she has died. New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton are back, in Robin Cook's electrifying twenty-fifth novel. Last seen in Vector, the doctors confront a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. Despite institutional resistance from her superiors, as well as from those at Manhattan General, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation. Though it seems impossible to determine why and how the patients are dying, she comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related-they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever serial killer with a very unusual motive, involving frightening ties to both developing genomic medicine and the economics of modern-day health care. Then Laurie is dealt a double blow: While coping with Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, she discovers she carries a genetic marker for a breast-cancer gene. As her personal life continues to unravel, the need for answers becomes more urgent, especially when Laurie is pulled into the nightmare as a potential victim herself. With time winding down, she and Jack race to connect the dots-and save Laurie's life. With his signature blend of suspense and science, Robin Cook delivers an electrifying page-turner as vivid as today's headlines.

Kathy Reichs - Cross ​Bones
An ​orthodox Jew is found shot dead in Montreal, the mutilated body is barely recognisable. Extreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and made it virtually impossible to determine the bullet trajectory. But just as forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is attempting to make sense of the fracture patterning, a mysterious stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton, assuring her it holds the key to the victim's death… The trail of clues leads all the way to the Holy Land where, together with detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe makes a startling discovery - but the further Tempe probes into the identity of the ancient skeleton, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger…

Harlan Coben - Drop ​Shot
The ​young woman was shot dead in cold blood, dropped outside the stadium, in front of a stand selling Moet for USD 7.50 a glass. Once her tennis career had skyrocketed. Now, at the height of the US Open, the headlines were being made by another young player from the wrong side of the tracks. When Myron Bolitar investigates the killing he uncovers a connection between the two players and a six year old murder at an exclusive club. Suddenly Myron is in over his head. And with a dirty US senator, a jealous mother and the mob all drawn into the case, he finds himself playing the most dangerous game of all ...

Robin Cook - Mortal ​Fear
A ​harrowing medical nightmare on the cutting edge of genetic research, Mortal Fear goes into the controversial future of modern medicine. At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins...

Harlan Coben - Deal ​Breaker
Sports ​agent and sometime investigator Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business - where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

Richard Castle - Frozen ​Heat
Hot ​on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years. NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she is forced to confront unexplored areas of her mother's background. Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Nikki's search will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past. Heat's passionate quest takes her and Rook from the back alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. The question is, now that her mother's cold case has unexpectedly thawed, will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery that has been her demon for ten years?