
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison, watching her while she shops and phoning her at all hours. Then, and for reasons unknown, Beryl lets him into her home. The next day she is found dead and Chief Medical examiner, Dr...
A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond`s Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on...
In this explosive follow-up to the bestselling police thriller "Hornet`s Nest, " former police chief Judy Hammer has been brought into clean up the police force in Richmond, Virginia. She and two assistants must find...
This No. 1 "New York Times" bestseller pits Virginia`s chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is...
First, the good news: the omni-competent Kay Scarpetta is back, along with her sidekicks, in a murder mystery that`s tighter than her last escapade, From Potter`s Field. Chief medical examiner for the state of...
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia`s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers...
`Cornwell has created one of the more intriguing detective characters in mystery fiction… Makes detection both the art and science that Sherlock Holmes always said it was`. San Francisco Chronicle
