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It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
2) Marker
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Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 24 cm
5) Crisis
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Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
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"A medical mystery wrapped in a contemporary love story, GEMINI is a stand out new novel from the Cassella, a practicing M.D. and author of the national bestseller OXYGEN. Think Jodi Picoult meets Abraham Verghese"--
7) Cell
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Entering a profession on the brink of radical transformation by a new smartphone technology capable of diagnosing and treating patients, radiology resident George Wilson is horrified when his fiancee and several patients die after beta testing the technology.
"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D.,...
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"What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor...
10) Death benefit
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Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
11) Cure
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"... New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game ...." --inside front cover.
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Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In Vermont, a prosecutor forges documents to save an alternative-medicine healer from a malpractice suit. Leland Fowler had his throat infection cured by homeopath Carissa Lake and they fell in love. Now a patient has died on her and she has problems, and soon so will he. By the author of Midwives.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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445 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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A young man confronts the problems and challenges of learning to be a doctor during the first year of his internship in Hawaii, in a compelling, inside look at the world of American medicine. The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life or death decisions...
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Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctor's alleged affair with the victim's wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lou's life at risk.
16) Book of the dead
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now living in Charleston, S.C., has started a private forensic pathology practice. Her happy foray into her new life and job is short lived, however, when she finds herself in a battle with the local elected coroner whose covert attempts at sabotage interfere with her job and her residency. Adding further frustration is a series of seemingly unrelated violent deaths in nearby resorts and rural communities, and problems with a prominent...
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Cheney Duvall M.D volume 7
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Cheney and Dr. Walker Baird, her colleague from St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, arrive in Hawaii to try to convince Shiloh Irons to return with them. Though Shiloh believes the Winslows might be his long-lost family, Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and has traveled all this way to warn her friend.
She and Walker set out to help Shiloh unravel the mysteries that seemingly surround the Winslows' determination to...
18) The last surgeon
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Pub. Date
2010.
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Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the "non-kill." As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon,...
19) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
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Series
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
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