CHAOS From the Ancient Greek (χάος or kháos) A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability. On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Even before Scarpetta's headquarters has been officially...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, working for the National Forensic Academy, joins her colleagues in a bizarre case that leads them on a trail of horrific crimes from Florida to Boston.

Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta...

Assisting Darren Fletcher in a case involving a staged murder scene, former medical examiner Samantha Owens confronts high-ranking State Department officials when she uncovers evidence of a bioterrorism plot.

"In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...

Behind the headlines on cloning—Dr. Robin Cook blends fact with fiction in one of his most terrifying bestsellers...

Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape—and forever change the genetic map of our existence...

Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens autopsies the body of suicide victim Timothy Savage and discovers that he was murdered, but also finds DNA from a kidnapped child whose remains were recovered years earlier, forcing her to solve a twenty-year-old mystery.

"AN ELECTRIFYING MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND HISTORY." —Kirkus Reviews

"MAY'S WELL-PLOTTED FOLLOW UP... AMPLIFIES HIS VIVID PICTURE OF A CHAOTIC, VITAL MODERN-DAY CHINA" —Publishers Weekly

Li Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, this time to track down a killer reenacting a series of gruesome rituals.

The Chinese police have once more been

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"Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of older residents whose demises appear to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox. Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths, as well as her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling. And once they join forces to investigate, danger follows...

As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Rapha︠l Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Hľ̈ne Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife2s murder. 1Solid and inviting crime drama2 TV Insider.