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An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters, and the case envelops Dr. Kay Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain Pete Marino.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a woman who has been terrified by a stalker.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself an object of suspicion and criminal investigation, and must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting evidence to the contrary.

The residents of Tangier, located off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, threaten to secede when the Governor of Virginia orders speed traps to be installed on all streets and highways.

When a horoscope writer is found dead in her garage, the only fingerprint found on the scene seems to belong to a convicted criminal who was executed before her death.

Compelling, chilling, sentimental, and emotional, Virginia's Ring delves into the decisions we make that impact our lives forever. Set in the pretty Shenandoah Valley town of Lexington and Virginia's capital city of Richmond, the two main characters of Virginia's Ring share their experiences at VMI and beyond with poignancy and grace, serving as a reminder of how precious people, places, and life can be. Creatively narrated by both a male and female...

"In the searing heat of a Virginia summer, two men plummet from a rooftop. One victim is a white police officer. The other is a young black man with a troubled past. Although hundreds of people stood at the scene of the crime, nobody will reveal what happened on that fateful rooftop. The FBI wants a quick verdict to this civil rights case--with or without the truth. They send in rookie agent Raleigh Harmon. After interviewing the tight-lipped witnesses,...

Postmortem introduces Dr. Scarpetta, who knows the smell of bone dust from a skullcap saw and how to read a body for clues via lasers, DNA, and computers. As Scarpetta slowly closes in on a killer known as Mr. Nobody, she gets the creepy, well-informed feeling that the killer is closing in on her. Cornwell's debut swept the mystery-writing awards and made her somebody. In Body of Evidence, Scarpetta investigates the murder of a Southern writer who...