women physicians

Forensic investigator Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called back to Richmond, Virginia to help the new Chief Medical Examiner investigate the mysterious death of a fourteen-year-old girl; and Scarpetta's niece, holding down the office in Florida, tries to deal with a stalker.

The author describes how she decided to become a doctor and the work she does as a cardiologist.

Former South Carolina forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta takes a case in New York in which a patient in a psychiatric prison asks to speak to her about wounds he claims were inflicted during a murder he did not commit, and after talking with the man, she starts to believe he is telling the truth and a serial killer is on the loose.

Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to start life anew by moving to Charleston, South Carolina, and opening a private practice, but it's only a matter of time before she is investigating another string of death.

Forensic investigator Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called back to Richmond, Virginia, five years after being fired, to help the new Chief Medical Examiner figure out what killed a fourteen-year-old girl who seems to have no cause of death, while Scarpetta's niece, holding down the office in Florida, tries to deal with a stalker.

Kay Scarpetta, working as a private forensic consultant in Florida, is thrown into a turmoil when Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, a serial killer she was responsible for bringing to justice, requests that she administer his death sentence in exchange for information about his crimes, as well as a new rash of killings in the area.

An investigation of a murder that began in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads medical examiner Kay deep into a nightmare that becomes her own.

Recounts the author's experiences and observations of the genocide in Darfur, and her role as a physician treating girls who had been raped and mutilated, after tensions between Sudan's Islamist dictatorship and communities such as the Zaghawa tribe exploded.