Cook, Robin

New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archaeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a bishop who would suppress the archaeologist's findings.

Angela Dawson, M.D., appears to have it all: at the age of thirty-seven, she owns a fabulous New York City apartment, a stunning seaside house on Nantucket, and enjoys the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But her climb to the top was rough, marked by a troubled childhood, a failed marriage, and the devastating blow of bankruptcy as a primary-care internist. Painfully aware of the role of economics in modern life, particularly in the health-care field, Angela returned to school to earn an MBA. Armed with a shiny new degree and blessed with determination, intelligence, and impeccable timing, Angela founded a start-up company, Angels Healthcare, then took it public. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others in Miami and Los Angeles, Angela's future looked very bright. Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world. Not only do the infections result in patient deaths, but the fatalities also cause stock prices to tumble, leaving market analysts wondering if Angela will be able to hold her empire together. New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are naturally intrigued by the uptick in staph-related post-procedure deaths. Aside from their own professional curiosity, there's a personal stake as well: Laurie and Jack are newly married, and Jack is facing surgery to repair a torn ligament at Angels Orthopedic Hospital. Despite Jack's protests, Laurie can't help investigating-opening a Pandora's box of corporate intrigue that threatens not just her livelihood, but her life with Jack as well.

Medical student Pia Grazdani, researching the creation of replacement organs for critically ill patients with the hopes of helping millions of people and overcoming an abusive childhood, teams up with classmate George Wilson to investigate a tragedy at the lab, while two ex-Wall Street whiz kids try to figure out a way to make money by manipulating private insurance information.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton and his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery discover a mysterious cult involved in high-tech experimental medical procedures when they set out to discover the truth about what happened to Carlo Franconi, a mobster who body was stolen from the morgue and later turned up mutilated and minus its liver.

A successful doctor with a fairy tale marriage has everything but the child she wants. Obsessed with becoming pregnant, she travels to Hong Kong to explore reproductive technologies and finds she is in incredible danger.

Forensic pathologists Dr. Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery, investigating two seemingly disparate cases, come to realize that Jack's anthrax victim, and Laurie's tortured skinhead are only a small part of a dangerous plot to unleash a devastating bioweapon on the United States.

Manhattan city forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery battles to foil a plot of unimaginable evil in a distinguished New York hospital.