For pathologist and forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton, the death of a gang rape victim hours before she is due to give evidence at trial is more than only a tragedy. The psychotic Harbourn brothers, the girl's accused attackers, now look like getting away with two horrific crimes.

Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is star witness - grudgingly - in a murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge?s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognises telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come. The forensic...

Dr Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team - Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli - to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows,...

A businessman is snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight - or so it appears to the eight year old girl who is the only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping: a miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. But Rhyme and Sachs' investigation takes an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs...

Lincoln and Amelia are hired to trace a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the killer known as the Ghost. However, when things go wrong, Lincoln and Amelia race to stop the Ghost before he can commit more crime.

Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. It turns out that his cousin, along with others, has been wrongly convicted because the killer knows every detail about the lives of his victims & the men he sets up. This allows him to get close to the victims, murder or rape, then set up others to fall for his crimes by planting evidence.

William and Anna went to collect her engagement ring. 1.5 carat, almost flawless. But the Promisor had other ideas for their future. Their murder - and that of the diamond cutter they were visiting - is only the first of a series of macabre attacks. Someone is targeting couples just as they start their lives together. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, newly married themselves, are on the hunt. But the killer is hunting down any witnesses who can help...

When, in 1955, forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his 'golden handshake' from Singapore to set up in private practice with former Home Office scientist Angela Bray, their risky venture in the Wye Valley depends on getting enough case-work to survive.

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its humid heat to the humans who stalk the air-conditioned malls, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta, now Director of Forensic Science and Medicine, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her.

In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police...