Patricia Daniels Cornwell

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital...

Against the advice of her FBI Agent husband, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on her way to a Georgia Prison for Women where she will be meeting an inmate who is the biological mother of a killer. She hopes to learn more about the death of her deputy chief six months earlier and if his death is connected to a string of present day killings.

Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.

Massachusetts state investigator Winston Garano is asked to solve a twenty-year-old murder case in Tennessee to make his boss who's running for governor look good but before he can start on the case, a violent attack changes everything.

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk -- and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta performs an autopsy on an unidentified man and becomes involved in a hunt for information that turns out to be a very dangerous mission.