Kay Scarpetta investigates the death of investigative reporter and scuba diver Ted Eddings, whose body was found in the Elizabeth River where he was supposedly investigating Civil War relics. A second murder complicates the situation before the first is solved.

"Twenty years after her sister, Lily, disappeared, Gin Sullivan is living in Chicago, working as a medical examiner when Lily's body is found in the woods outside her small hometown. As Gin examines her sister's remains, she uncovers a shocking truth that could change everything, if it doesn't kill her first"--

It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor; the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away, and has vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete; a local hero protected by the...

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'sfindings.

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta,...

Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta becomes involved in a strange murder mystery when she tries to discover who is committing a string of gruesome murders, but she soon realizes that someone would rather have her dead than completing her investigation.

New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her career involving the suspected poisoning murder of a CIA agent and possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up stem-cell research labs.

Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.