Black Mountain is a sleepy little place where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. Hardly the place for a serial killer to be stalking, but that seems to be the case when 11 year-old Emily Steiner's corpse is found, with a bullet wound to the head and several small sections of skin removed from her frail, abused body. The crime bears disturbing similarities to the recent murder of young Eddie Heath in Virginia and Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to bring her forensic skills to the case. Fighting the natural assumption that Emiluy's murderer is also the man who killed Eddie, Scarpetta's instinct for the unusual is sharply awakened when another body is found...
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Kay Scarpetta VIII. Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. -
Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia - separated by thousands of miles but linked by murder. Dr. Scarpetta, on a leisure stint in Ireland, has the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on opposite sides of the Atlantic are linked. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in the US. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies and evidence that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing - ghoulish, but not unusual. But when the next body is found, Scarpetta discovers that the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.
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Kay Scarpetta No. X. A cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career. -
The Front: Patricia Cornwell
$10.00Win Garano II. Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard. And as Garano unearths deadly secrets from the past, his hard-nosed boss Monique Lamont is putting both their lives in jeopardy with her lust for power and success. -
The sequel to Hornet's Nest. Richmond, Virginia - and a big city police force has corruption, scandal and robberies escalating into murder. Police Chief Judy Hammer has been hired to clean up the crime rate. Still reeling from the recent death of her husband and resented by her staff and the city's establishment, she is joined by Virginia West and Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career - to bring order and sanity to a city in trouble. -
Chaos erupts when the Governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be installed on all streets and highways, and warns that motorists will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric inhabitants of Tangier, an island approximately 14 kilometres off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, respond by threatening to secede and set up an independent state, claiming that their independence lies in the history of America's first settlers, those who set sail from England's Isle of Dogs in 1607. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of Virginia State Police and Andy Brazil, state trooper and Hammer's right-hand confidante, are at their wit's end as they try to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa.
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Kay Scarpetta III. In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them... -
Port Mortuary is - literally - a port to receive the dead. And the deaths are mounting, as dangerous secrets come back back to haunt Scarpetta. She'd been training at the Port to master the art of 'virtual autopsy', a ground-breaker that could revolutionise forensic science. Soon these new skills urgently need to be put into practice when a young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition. But examination shows he may have been alive when zipped inside a body bag and locked in the cooler. When the 3D radiology scans show internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, she realises this is a case of murder - and she's fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy.
