New Releases by Peter Abrahams

Ein genialer Mathematiker mit einem dunklen Geheimnis ... Die Historikerin Beth Hunter ist schwanger und glücklich mit dem hochangesehenen Berkley-Professor Teddy Wu verlobt. Doch kurz vor der Hochzeit verschwindet ihr zukünftiger Ehemann spurlos. Da niemand an ein Verbrechen glauben will, macht Beth es sich zur alleinigen Mission, ihren Verlobten zu finden. Schon bald wird sie bei der gefährlichen Suche von zwielichtigen Geheimdienstagenten konfrontiert, die Teddy besser zu kennen scheinen, als sie selbst ... Anscheinend war er nicht nur der geniale Mathematiker, der er vorgab zu sein: Seine unergründlichen Formeln wurden vom Militär zur Verschlüsselung eingesetzt ... Je tiefer Beth in Teddys Vergangenheit eintaucht, desto mehr verstrickt sie sich in einem Netz aus Lügen und Intrigen, das sie schließlich selbst in größte Gefahr bringt. »Temporeiche Unterhaltung!« – Publishers Weekly Packender Verschwörungsthriller des amerikanischen Bestsellerautors für Fans von Michael Connelly!

In a world grappling with the aftermath of a global pandemic, a renowned chemistry teacher, Thaddaeus, finds himself thrust into the spotlight. As the school''s sole biology teacher succumbs to the virus, pressure mounts on Thaddaeus to fill the void. However, he refuses, harboring a deep-seated grudge against the theory of natural selection. A battle of ideologies ensues when the principal''s wife, a staunch advocate of Darwinian principles, vows to teach Thaddaeus a painful lesson. Armed with her connections and influence, she sets out to expose the flaws in his beliefs. Unbeknownst to her, Thaddaeus is guided by prophetic dreams and mentored by a cunning lawyer with a deep understanding of human nature. As the conflict escalates, the nation faces a moral crisis, forced to confront the consequences of unchecked power and the erosion of fundamental principles. The story unfolds as a gripping exploration of the clash between traditional wisdom and the relentless march of progress, ultimately questioning the very foundations of our society.

Nach neun Monaten Vorfreude tritt der absolute Albtraum ein ... Die frischgebackene Mutter Nina Kitchener ist starr vor Schreck, als sie im Bett ihres Babys die leblosen Knopfaugen einer Puppe erblickt – von ihrem Sohn fehlt jede Spur. Traumatisiert und geschockt von der Untätigkeit der Polizei, stürzt sich Nina selbst in die Ermittlungen. Ihre erste Spur führt sie zur Kinderwunsch-Klinik, in der ihre Befruchtung stattfand, denn die Identität des anonymen Samenspenders könnte etwas mit der Entführung zu tun haben. Als sie dort erfährt, dass sie ihr Schicksal mit einer weiteren Mutter teilt, ahnt Nina Schreckliches ... Steckt hinter dem Verschwinden der Neugeborenen ein ganzes Netzwerk der Grausamkeit? Und wird sie ihren kleinen Sohn je wieder lebend in die Arme schließen können? »Abrahams hält die Spannung durchgehend aufrecht und schmückt seine Geschichte mit anschaulichen Details.« – Publishers Weekly Der bahnbrechende Psychothriller über die verzweifelte Suche einer Mutter nach ihrem entführten Säugling – für Fans von Sue Watson und Clare Mackintosh!

Er ist die perfekte Hilfe – doch niemand kennt seine dunklen Absichten ... Als Scott und Linda Gardner bei ihrer Suche nach einem Nachhilfelehrer auf Julian Sawyer treffen, können sie ihr Glück kaum fassen – denn Julian ist klug, kultiviert und versteht sich auf Anhieb mit ihrem rebellischen Teenagersohn Brandon. Doch nicht nur Brandon profitiert von Julians gutem Einfluss, auch Linda und Scott hören bald auf die fachkundigen Ratschläge des jungen Mannes. Nur Ruby, die 11-jährige Tochter der Gardners, traut der perfekten Fassade des unerwarteten Familienzuwachses nicht. Als einzige sieht sie die dunkle Bedrohung, die hinter seinen vermeintlich guten Absichten durchschimmert. Doch zu lange bleibt Ruby mit ihrer schlimmen Ahnung allein – denn als Julian endlich sein wahres Gesicht zeigt, ist es schon längst zu spät ... »Peter Abrahams ist mein Lieblings-Thrillerautor.« Bestsellerautor Stephen King Wenn man dem Falschen traut ... Ein düsterer Thriller voller Abgründe für die Fans von K.L. Slater und Michael Robotham – jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks erhältlch!

From head to toe, elbow to ankle, How Your Skeleton Works expertly guides you through the different parts of the body. Including the body’s 206 bones, each page has a colour artwork to illustrate the featured body part. Alongside general text on the body part, there are detailed annotations to explain particular details about the artwork.

A BELIEVER ARRIVES in a Marble Arch store in central London to buy what can be used to kill Covid. He finds himself in the company of a socialist shop assistant who dislikes the government intensely because of what it allowed Covid to do to his grandmother. All the Believer wants is to kill Covid because he has a guest trapped in one part of London because of Covid. He has three other guests trapped in another part of the city because of Covid. One of his best friends is critically ill and at the point of death in hospital because of Covid. His business and only source of income is not making any money and could collapse because of Covid. Should his business collapse a mission to Glastonbury that could help rescue hundreds of millions of people trapped in a living hell will be put in jeopardy, Will it be a happy ending or yet another total disaster brought about by cruel Covid?

La rappresentazione dell’Anatomia umana normale che ci viene fornita dalle tecniche di imaging è fondamentale per la diagnostica clinica ma anche per l’Anatomia di base; le ricostruzioni tridimensionali rese possibili dalle apparecchiature di tomografia computerizzata e di risonanza magnetica consentono di apprezzare la volumetria e la spazialità degli organi. Le immagini in vivo sono complementari ai disegni e alle dissezioni da cadavere nello studio dell’Anatomia di base: comprendere l’Anatomia radiologica e “cross-sectional” è un modo di avvinarsi concretamente alla futura attività professionale.

This essential companion to Bailey & Love''s Short Practice of Surgery covers the clinical conditions most commonly encountered by medical students, junior clinicians,and surgeons in training. This is clinical anatomy at its best ! Structured by body region, each chapter includes plentiful clinical photographs and images supplementing the high-quality anatomical diagrams, using the best modality to demonstrate anatomical relevance. Highlighted descriptions of clinical relevance emphasise the integrated approach so central to current teaching practice, and facilitated by the wealth of both clinical and anatomical experience of the distinguished author team.

Arranged according to the body''s different structures and systems, How The Body Works is a highly detailed guide that will appeal to general readers and students alike.

Stephen King’s “favorite American suspense novelist” plunges a woman into secrets of the 1960s and ’70s as she races to save her daughter. Peter Abrahams (also known as Spencer Quinn, New York Times–bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries) delivers a gripping thriller about a Los Angeles single mother caught up in a conspiracy with roots in 1969’s Woodstock Festival. Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend, Pat fails to bring their ten-year-old daughter, Kate, home. When Jessie goes to his Venice Beach house, she hears a disturbing cut-off message on his answering machine and discovers strange foreign words written in big block letters on his kitchen blackboard. Then her life is threatened. The police are dragging their feet, so Jessie embarks on her own search for Kate. Her quest takes her across the country and back decades, from the drug haze of Woodstock to the lethal jungles of Vietnam to the highest echelons of Russian and American intelligence. The truth—more shocking than she ever imagined—may not set her free. But it could cost her everything.

A thrilling adventure set in the world of underwater diving from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Deciding on her thirty-ninth birthday that a baby is the best present she could give herself, single Manhattan public relations executive Nina Kitchener makes an appointment to undergo artificial insemination at the Human Fertility Institute. Nine months later, the nightmare begins. Just hours after she gives birth, someone kidnaps her infant son from the nursery. The police aren’t helping, the fertility institute has shut down, and Nina believes that the only way to find her baby is to learn the identity of the sperm donor. Nina’s hunt for answers leads her to the Bahamas and the rich, reclusive Standish family who funded the institute. But Nina isn’t the only one investigating them. Joining forces with divorced ex–Navy SEAL and deep-sea diver Nate Matthias, Nina is unprepared for the horrors they uncover. A long-buried secret that dates back to Nazi survivors of World War II is still deadly enough to threaten Nina’s life, her baby’s, and that of the mysterious man who’s protecting her.

A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller from Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead—the victim of a savage stabbing—and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But there are no synagogues in Williamstown. The only clue is a letter Rachel finds in Dan’s safety deposit box. Written in 1942, it’s about the reassignment of three German soldiers to a place called Camp Siegfried in the supposedly unoccupied western part of North Africa. Convinced that the murder and abduction are related to a book Dan recently completed about German-occupied countries during World War II, Rachel travels to North Africa and then on to Israel, where a mass murderer hiding in plain sight is determined to keep the horrors of the past buried forever.

A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies—and the enemies of Israel—will pay. Months later, Rehv, who is a former literary scholar and professor of Arabic literature, has moved to America and is waiting tables at a local café in Manhattan. There, a chance encounter with a member of the Israeli resistance called Haganah and a botched assassination attempt will sow the seeds of a brilliantly orchestrated revenge plot. As Rehv prepares to unleash his secret weapon on an unsuspecting Islamic world, a terrorist watch group, led by a former CIA agent named Krebs, follows his every move. But Krebs may be too late to prevent the coming destruction.

This easy to use workbook covers all the basic sciences inclinical context, and includes the full range of question typesused in medical school. It offers comprehensive advice on how totackle tricky examinations, how to deal with question types fromSAQs to essays, and will stimulate abstract skills like criticalthinking and the ability to deliver the key facts. Ideal for the pre-clinical years and USMLE candidates,Medical Sciences at a Glance: Practice Workbookfeatures: • An introductory section featuring step-by-stepguidance on exam technique and papers • Over 390 questions of varying formats - and fullexplanations to the answers • A topic-based structure reflecting vital foundationconcepts, including anatomy, physiology, pathology andpharmacology Medical Sciences at a Glance: Practice Workbook meets theneeds of medical students with a spectrum of educational approachesin mind. Whatever your course type, working through this book willgive you the advantage when it comes to basic science exams.

A modern-day Robin Hood by a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author! Robbie Forester has learned the hard way that life isn’t fair. So have her friends Ashanti, Silas and Tut-Tut. But Robbie and her friends—who call themselves the Outlaws of Sherwood Street—want to change that. When Sheldon Gun, an evil business man, ends up killing Silas’s father so he can build a new apartment complex in Brooklyn, the Outlaws know it’s up to them to make Sheldon Gun pay. With street smarts, Silas’s inventions, and a little help from a charm bracelet, these friends know they can take on Sheldon Gun and win—at least, they hope so. If not, they may end up just like Silas’s dad. This story is filled with action, adventure, social justice and great friends--and is especially relevant during our current economy and the rise of the Occupy Everywhere movement. Perfect for fans of young detectives like Nancy Drew, Enola Holmes, and Gilda Joyce. Peter Abrahams, who also writes the Chet & Bernie mysteries as Spencer Quinn, is the award-winning and best-selling author of the Echo Falls series as well as teen novels Reality Check and Bullet Point. His adult novel, The Fan, was turned into a feature film starring Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes. Stephen King has called Abrahams “my favorite American suspense novelist."

Robbie Forester always knew life wasn''t fair, but she never thought she could do anything about it--until one day when a powerful charm comes into her possession and guides her, her friends, and her dog Pendleton on the path to justice. Unfortunately, the path has gotten dangerous, and Robbie and her friends find themselves in a menacing world of thievery, arson, big yachts, and even bigger bank accounts. Will Robbie and her band of thieves end up in more trouble than they ever could have imagined?

Nick Petrov, Privatdetektiv in L.A., soll die Tochter eines Callgirls finden. Als er bei seinen Ermittlungen zusammengeschlagen wird, verliert er das Gedächtnis. Dennoch versucht Nick hartnäckig, den Fall voranzutreiben. Vage dämmern ihm Parallelen zu einem Mordfall, den er vor Jahren gelöst hat. Wenn er sich nur erinnern könnte ...

After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood.

Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy’s life—and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now, after twenty-years as “Charlie Ochs,” Cape Cod lobsterman, Blake finds out that the feds are closing in. But a vengeful G-man gives Charlie a choice: face the music or help smoke out the beautiful hardcore radical who seduced him into the anti-war movement back in the ’60s. So begins a long, strange trip for the former Blake Wrightman, as he revisits the scene of a deadly revolution that didn’t end with the Vietnam War—and is about to claim a few more casualties. . . .

Baseball sensation Bobby Rayburn’s major-league career is booming, and he just signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the Sox. Knife salesman Gil Renard’s job is hanging by a thread and he just sold his most prized possession to stay afloat. All that keeps Gil going, in the face of divorce, destitution, and desperation, is rooting for the Sox–and the team’s new savior, Bobby Rayburn. But when his idol sinks into the worst slump of his career, Gil realizes he alone has the power to restore the slugger’s mojo. At the lowest point he has ever known, Gil finds his mission in life–a mission he will carry out no matter what it takes or who gets hurt.

With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.

Wyatt never really thought much about his dad—a hardened criminal, a lifer in a prison somewhere on the other side of the state. But then the economy had to go and tank, and the community had to go and cut the baseball program from Wyatt''s high school. And then the coach had to go and show Wyatt a photograph of his dad at sixteen, looking very much like Wyatt himself. Through a series of unfortunate—or perhaps they were fortunate—events, Wyatt meets a crazy-hot girl named Greer with a criminal dad of her own. A criminal dad who is, in fact, in jail with Wyatt''s own criminal dad. Greer arranges a meeting, and Wyatt''s dad is nothing like the guy he''s imagined—he''s suave, and smart, and funny, and cool, and—Wyatt''s pretty sure—innocent. So Wyatt decides to help him out. A decision that may possibly be the worst he''s ever made in his life. This is another hold-your-breath thriller by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated Peter Abrahams.

Nick Petrov was a world-famous private investigator -- until a brain trauma destroyed part of his memory and changed who he is forever. Now a killer is on the loose, looming up from a past that Nick can no longer remember.