Random House New Releases - Fiction - Medical - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer

2012-12-11T00:30:00-05:00

Mendel's Dwarf
Written by Simon Mawer

Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love and acceptance, and when he finds both in Jean, a shy librarian, he stumbles upon an opportunity to correct the injustice of his own, at least to him, unlucky genes.

Entertaining and tender, this witty and surprisingly erotic novel reveals the beauty and drama of scientific inquiry as it informs us of the simple passions against which even the most brilliant mind is rendered powerless.

Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi

2012-11-21T00:30:00-05:00

Cantor's Dilemma
Written by Carl Djerassi

When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, his promising research fellow, Dr. Jeremiah Stafford, has only to conduct the experiment and win Cantor the Nobel prize. But how far will Stafford go to guarantee the results? Carl Djerassi draws from his career as a world-famous scientist to describe the fierce competition driving scientific superstars in this gripping novel.

The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle by Tess Gerritsen

2012-10-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen has thrilled countless readers with her acclaimed novels of suspense featuring Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. TNT struck ratings gold with Rizzoli & Isles, a series based on Gerritsen’s New York Times bestsellers. And now the first nine Rizzoli & Isles novels are together in one convenient eBook bundle.

“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child, on The Silent Girl

This bundle includes the following titles:
THE SURGEON
THE APPRENTICE
THE SINNER
BODY DOUBLE
VANISH
THE MEPHISTO CLUB
THE KEEPSAKE
ICE COLD
THE SILENT GIRL

And don’t miss the thrilling excerpt of Tess Gerritsen’s new Rizzoli & Isles novel, Last to Die.

“[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Rizzoli & Isles • Hit series on TNT

“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer’s merciless mission.

Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong’s mysterious benefactors aren’t the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind.

Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children’s fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted quest.

PRAISE FOR TESS GERRITSEN

“[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

“One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.”—The Providence Journal

The Silent Girl

“Another great thrill ride . . . one of Gerritsen’s best.”—Associated Press

“An exciting and suspense-filled adventure.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News

Ice Cold

“Gerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.”—Salon

“The kind of book you’d read in one sitting.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Rizzoli & Isles • Hit series on TNT

“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer’s merciless mission.

Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong’s mysterious benefactors aren’t the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind.

Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children’s fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted quest.

This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus script pages from a season 3 episode of TNT's hit show Rizzoli & Isles.

PRAISE FOR TESS GERRITSEN

“[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

“One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.”—The Providence Journal

The Silent Girl

“Another great thrill ride . . . one of Gerritsen’s best.”—Associated Press

“An exciting and suspense-filled adventure.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News

Ice Cold

“Gerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.”—Salon

“The kind of book you’d read in one sitting.”—Chicago Sun-Times

12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

12.21: A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason

From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon—perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown.

For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.

In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.

By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life’s work and to one of history’s great riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this same fate.

With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton and Chel must join forces before time runs out.

Advance praise for 12.21

“Dustin Thomason, M.D., will invariably be compared to Michael Crichton, M.D., and 12.21 will be favorably compared to The Andromeda Strain. Both authors have written first-rate medical thrillers, the kind of fact-based fiction that is very scary but also very entertaining. Thomason knows his stuff, and it shows on every page. I truly could not put this book down.”—Nelson DeMille

“The most exciting novel of its kind since the days of Michael Crichton, 12.21 takes us from the frontiers of modern neuroscience to the riddles of ancient Maya texts, with nothing less than the future of our civilization at stake.”—Vince Flynn

“A fast-moving tale . . . Thomason displays an impressive depth of knowledge of both science and the ancient Mayan way of life. Along the way, he skillfully ramps up the action, one notch at a time. A winning book.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Fascinating, terrifying for its potential realism. I loved how tightly everything fit together. I had to keep reading.”—Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist

“Fast, suspenseful . . . Michael Crichton fans will find a lot to like.”—Publishers Weekly

12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

12.21: A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason

12.21 by Dustin Thomason

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

12.21 A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason
Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

12.21 by Dustin Thomason

2012-08-07T00:30:00-05:00

12.21 A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason
Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story by Tess Gerritsen

2012-07-23T00:30:00-05:00

John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Razor-edge suspense in this original eBook short story from “one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today” (The Providence Journal)

It should have been a night to remember, but Maura Isles can’t recall a thing.

Maura is longing to ditch a ritzy cocktail party, along with her four-inch heels, when a handsome, charming stranger appears. But somewhere between sipping a fresh glass of champagne and waking up the next day on her sofa lies a black hole of forgotten time. As Boston’s medical examiner, Maura regularly teams up with police detective Jane Rizzoli on homicide investigations, and Jane’s latest case makes Maura’s blood run cold. A brutally murdered man has been found in a city park with Maura’s address tucked in his pocket. Maura IDs the victim as the charmer she met at the party. Her alarm turns to terror when she learns the murdered man was a predator with victims of his own. Fearing she may be guilty of a lethal crime she can’t recall, Maura races to recover the missing hours that hold the truth—and that hide a shocking secret.

Don’t miss the thrilling preview of Tess Gerritsen’s new Rizzoli & Isles novel, Last to Die.

A Fatal Debt by John Gapper

2012-06-26T00:30:00-05:00

A Fatal Debt A Novel
Written by John Gapper

This timely debut thriller by an award-winning Financial Times columnist is a gripping tale of lethal intrigue set in the high-stakes Wall Street world—where wealth and privilege are no match for jealousy and betrayal.

Ben Cowper, an attending psychiatrist at the prestigious New York–Episcopal Hospital, is stunned to learn the identity of the emergency patient he’s just been assigned to treat: Harry Shapiro, a Wall Street colossus and one of Episcopal’s most prominent donors. But a high-profile reversal of fortune has left the once powerful investment banker jobless, bitter, and possibly desperate—judging by the handgun his wife finds him clutching. In Ben’s expert opinion, Shapiro is a suicide waiting to happen. But when the headstrong financier balks at an extended stay in the hospital psych ward, Ben reluctantly releases him, bowing to political pressure from Episcopal’s chief administrator, who’s more concerned with the patient’s money than his mind.

Days later, the shocking news breaks: There’s been a shooting death in Harry Shapiro’s Hamptons mansion. But even more shocking is the identity of the victim. A tragedy sets in motion an explosive chain of events that turns Ben Cowper’s life upside-down.

As hard-nosed cops close in with harder questions, the hospital closes ranks to protect its own interests. But with colleagues freezing Ben out, innocent circumstances conspire to incriminate him. Hounded by a DA who’s out for blood, and haunted by the specter of a shattered career, Ben has no choice: He must delve into the hearts and minds of the people who know Harry best, uncover the secrets they’d rather die—or kill—to keep, and expose the truth behind a web of malice disguised as madness.

A Fatal Debt by John Gapper

2012-06-26T00:30:00-05:00

A Fatal Debt A Novel
Written by John Gapper

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel (with bonus short story Freaks) by Tess Gerritsen

2012-06-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel (with bonus short story Freaks) A Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT

In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive—a mysterious martial arts master who is now the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil. Cracking a crime with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade.

Don’t miss Tess Gerritsen’s short story “Freaks” in the back of the book.

Random House New Releases - Fiction - Medical - Between May 18, 2012 and June 17, 2013.

Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer

Mendel's Dwarf Written by Simon Mawer

Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi

Cantor's Dilemma Written by Carl Djerassi

The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle by Tess Gerritsen

The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent GirlWritten by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel Written by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel Written by Tess Gerritsen

12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

12.21: A Novel Written by Dustin Thomason

12.21: A Novel by Dustin Thomason

12.21: A Novel Written by Dustin Thomason

12.21 by Dustin Thomason

12.21 A NovelWritten by Dustin Thomason Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

12.21 by Dustin Thomason

12.21 A NovelWritten by Dustin Thomason Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story by Tess Gerritsen

John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story Written by Tess Gerritsen

A Fatal Debt by John Gapper

A Fatal Debt A NovelWritten by John Gapper

A Fatal Debt by John Gapper

A Fatal Debt A NovelWritten by John Gapper

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel (with bonus short story Freaks) by Tess Gerritsen

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel (with bonus short story Freaks) A NovelWritten by Tess Gerritsen

Mendel's Dwarf
Written by Simon Mawer

Cantor's Dilemma
Written by Carl Djerassi

The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen

Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen

12.21: A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason

12.21: A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason

12.21 A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason
Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

12.21 A Novel
Written by Dustin Thomason
Read by Fred Sanders, Noel R. Bearheart and Dustin Thomason

John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
Written by Tess Gerritsen

A Fatal Debt A Novel
Written by John Gapper

A Fatal Debt A Novel
Written by John Gapper

The Silent Girl: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel (with bonus short story Freaks) A Novel
Written by Tess Gerritsen