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83) Oślepienie
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Polish
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Bestsellerowy thriller medyczny mistrza gatunku Robina Cooka. Laurie Montgomery, patolog z nowojorskiego zakładu medycyny sądowej, jest przerażona mnogością zgonów na skutek przedawkowania kokainy. Na jej stół trafiają kolejne ofiary młodzi, świetnie zapowiadający się ludzie. Przekonana, że ma do czynienia z serią wbrew opinii i sprzeciwowi przełożonych zaczyna badać tę sprawę. Tymczasem przez Nowy Jork przetacza się fala egzekucji...
85) The burning
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English
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In the icy, languid days following Christmas, a dense fog has settled over the Wye Valley. Local Coroner Jenny Cooper, still reeling after being abandoned by her partner for the festivities, is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: a house has been burned to the ground, revealing its terrible secrets. Before the fire began, a man, Ed Morgan, shot his two stepdaughters dead, before turning the gun on himself. His infant son is still missing.
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English
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Jenny Cooper, formerly an emergency room physician, takes a job in Toronto as coroner. As she investigates unexplained and unnatural deaths, Jenny butts heads with the chief pathologist and with homicide cops. Jenny has an unwavering determination to uncover the truth, even if her inclination to dig further into cases irritates her superiors. Away from work, Jenny struggles with intense anxiety while dealing with widowhood and her teenage son,...
88) Death becomes us
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English
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Almost everyone with a pulse fears death, but not everyone fears life. With crippling social anxiety, I feared both. But after an accidental call to a funeral home during my mid-life crisis trip to grad school, I reluctantly embarked on a journey to explore professions that dealt with death in order to come to terms with my own mortality. (From cover)
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English
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Join a quirky team of misfit coroners willing to put their forensic skills to the test. Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve-- her mother's murder.
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English
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In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of the coroner. While the office was established to investigate violent or suspicious deaths, Lockwood asserts that the demands of competing parties gradually shaped its systems and transformed England into a modern state earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Weaving together strands of social, legal, economic,...