When Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's Museum of Fine Arts, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin, his wife Rosemary Thomas is the prime suspect. Long suffering under Christopher's unfaithful ways, Rosemary is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, becomes convinced that the wrong person was put to death. Along with financier Tony Olsen, he plans to gather everyone who was there the night Christopher died and finally uncover the truth about what happened that fateful evening. Could it have been the ne'er do well brother Peter Hausen, interested in his sister's trust fund having got through...

Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die – until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiance, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only in those under extreme stress – in fact, it appears that Sam had been literally scared to death. As Julie investigates similar cases, she finds a frightening pattern…and finds herself the target of disturbing threats. The more cases Julie...

Изобретен миниатюрный робот по прозвищу АРТИ. Это — прорыв в нейрохирургии. С появлением АРТИ, способного удалять труднодоступные опухоли мозга, воплотилась в реальность сокровенная мечта нейрохирурга Джесси Коупленд. Но ее мечта превращается в кошмар, когда о существовании АРТИ узнает преступник. Увлекательный роман о сенсационных медицинских открытиях с напряженным, насыщенным сюжетом.

Dr. Carrie Bryant’s four years as a neurosurgical resident at White Memorial Hospital have earned her the respect and admiration from peers and staff alike. When given the chance of performing her first unsupervised brain surgery, Carrie jumps at the opportunity. What should have been a routine, hours long operation, turns horribly wrong and jeopardizes her patient’s life. Emotionally and physically drained, Carrie is rushed back to the OR to assist in a second surgery. There, she makes a careless and tragic mental error resulting in irreparable brain damage to her second patient. With her confidence shattered, Carrie quits her residency and moves back home where her younger brother,...

Студентка медицинского колледжа из Бостона отправляется в Южную Америку на конференцию, но неожиданно становится жертвой жестокого преступления. Во время операции ей удаляют легкое, как потом выясняется вовсе не с целью спасти жизнь. В тысячах милях от нее блестящий ученый медленно умирает от неизлечимой болезни легких... В Чикаго не слишком удачливому частному детективу поручают выяснить личность неизвестного юноши, погибшего на автостраде, на теле которого обнаружены странные следы... Студентка-медик. Ученый. Частный детектив. Трое, казалось бы, совершенно разных людей, однако им суждено познать глубинный смысл гениальности и безумия, правды и обмана. А в итоге их жизни оказываются...