Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta struggles to find leads to the identity of a serial killer who has murdered five couples in Richmond, Virginia, meticulously leaving no clues behind.

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.

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.

A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.

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.

Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano is dispatched to Watertown by District Attorney Monique Lamont to look into a cold case that just may be the Boston Strangler's first victim, but he runs up against opposition from the Front, an unofficial coalition of police departments who are suspicious of Lamont, her minions, and her motivations.

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.