The world's bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally.
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long...

Commander Will Coburn and his NCIS team, investigating a cold case murder, follow clues that lead them to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C., while problems in medical examiner Nita Tomlinson's personal life threaten to derail her career.

Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton, her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and assisting detective Lena Adams, are forced to confront disturbing aspects of their own lives and relationships as they investigate a religious cult which has a practice of burying faithless members alive.

"Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past--and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman...

Devastated by his friend's death, Parisian forensic pathologist Rapha︠l Balthazar has vowed never to touch a corpse again. But his resolve wavers when he discovers a dead body while sailing, and soon he's working once more with Chief Inspector Hélène Bach, who's closing in on their most elusive suspect: his wife's killer.

As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Raphel Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Helene Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife's murder.

A New York City forensic pathologist and her Harvard-educated husband describe their experiences throughout the events of September 11, the subsequent anthrax bio-terrorism attack, and the disastrous crash of Flight 587.

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta--a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this...

When the sister of the judge presiding over a sensational murder case is found dead, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the reluctant star witness in the trial, investigates and recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, pitting her against a powerful force that returns her to the past.