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The Duke of Selchester wanted a wife and he knew precisely the type of woman he was looking for, so a list of candidates was drawn up and he proposed to visit each in turn.

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms.

The reputation of the Marquis of Falcon was such that Queen Victoria would bestow no further honour upon him until he married.

Orlena and her brother find that, on the death of their father, they are considerably wealthy, but complications arrive creating desperate situations for them.

Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city.

How Lorinda saves Dunstan's life and how, after many surprises, the wonder of love unites their hearts.

Kay Scarpetta's work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end.

Frank Swinton is an adventurer, a man determined to raise himself above the drudgery of a nine-to-five job.

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task is made more difficult by the effects of the elements.

Lady Ancella Winn, after the death of her father, goes to Paris as a nurse-companion and falls in love with her mistress's son.

While on a secret mission to the fanatical leader of a holy war against Imperial Russia, Lord Athelston becomes involved in an escape from the Sultan's harem.

While Lucy Farinelli goes undercover in Miami to bring down a notorious criminal cartel, Dr Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino discover a body in a cargo ship recently arrived at Virginia's Deep Wa

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.

Lucretia is forced to marry the Marquis of Marlyn. Together they encounter dangerous adventures in France as they rescue Englishmen from the hands of Napoleon.