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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, gets involved in a Christmas Eve murder in New York City. She must identify the dead female before the serial killer whose work this is finds Scarpetta's niece. "In Richmond, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck...

From Boston, a disgraced medical student travels to South America to deliver a research paper that could save her career and becomes a victim of an unspeakable crime. Thousands of miles away, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. In Chicago, a disillusioned private...

Jake Brighton's love remains strong when his wife Ellen's health begins to fail and Jake becomes overwhelmed by the changes he has to make. When Jake meets Julia Sinclair, a young widow who has faced the same circumstances, they become close and Jake finds himself faced with a difficult decision.

Quinn Cleary is delighted to be accepted into the medical school of her dreams, but she begins to worry about the way all of her classmates seem to fall in line with the messianic vision of the school's director. Then she discovers the true mission of this very fine research center.

"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from New York and one of only 100 women chosen for nursing...

When a bizarre disease that attacks only physicians and their patients sweeps the country, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal discovers that sinister forces are behind the threat and finds her life in danger.

Kay must find a killer who uses fire to mask his crimes and when she learns that her old nemesis is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.

Book 1 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh's honeymoon is interrupted by a storm that forces them to shelter on an island where inhabitants fight a terrible fever.

Against the advice of his well-wishers, future doctor Adam Schonberg takes up a job with a giant drug firm. Slowly Adam begins to suspect the hideous evil associated with the company which threatens his own wife's pregnancy.