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A sleepy little town in North Carolina seems hardly the place for a serial killer to be stalking but Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in to use her forensic skills on the corpse of eleven-year-old Emily

Beryl Madison is found brutally murdered in her home in Richmond, Virginia. Inexplicably, she seems to have invited her killer in.

Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble.

About family relationships and about the use and abuse of power as champion jockey Kit Fielding seeks to defend his sister and her husband (a race horse trainer) from a spiteful newspaper campaign.

Eddings was murdered. Why did Scarpetta receive a call reporting his death before the police were notified?

Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

How can the fingerprints of a convicted murderer who has been executed turn up on the mutilated corpse of another victim? Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, investigates.

Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker.

Dr Kay Scarpetta has to call on all her reserves of courage and skill and the able assistance of her colleagues when she must track down a most dangerous killer.

Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago, now four have been discovered in Virginia.