A Chosen Death

Featuring moving accounts of terminally ill people who have faced the choice of ending their own lives, this book adds a profound human dimension to the debate over assisted suicide

The Chosen Dead is the fifth gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith. An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend’s thirteen year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man’s last days, she’s drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavour, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins . . . The Chosen Dead is followed by the sixth novel in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series, The Burning. The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.

Eine uralte Fehde verbietet ihnen, zusammen zu sein. Trotzdem erliegen sie einander. Einst von den Göttern verflucht, kann die 24-jährige Elena die Toten sehen – eine Bürde, die schwer auf ihr lastet. Die Seelen der Verstorbenen sind völlig entfesselt. Elena befürchtet, dass sie etwas mit den mysteriösen Todesfällen zu tun haben, von denen ihr Dorf heimgesucht wird. Als der attraktive, aztektische Gott Nan Elena erscheint, schließt sie widerwillig einen Pakt mit ihm, um ihre Gemeinde zu retten. So reist sie an seiner Seite ins Reich der Toten. An jenen Ort, an dem der Hass zwischen Menschen und Göttern geboren wurde. Doch Elena erkennt zu spät, dass sie dort unten nicht nur ihr Leben, sondern auch ihr Herz verlieren könnte ...

Ethics.

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants. Through the eyes of a child inmate, Adrian Ziegler, and a nurse, Anna Katschenka, Steve Sem-Sandberg, the author of the award-winning The Emperor of Lies, explores the very meaning of survival. An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by the author's sharp sense of the absurd. Passionately serious, meticulously researched, and deeply profound, this extraordinary and dramatic novel bears witness to oppression and injustice, and offers invaluable and necessary insight into an intolerable chapter in Austria’s past.

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