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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.

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

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.

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.

Precious Ramotswe is worried about her depressed fiance, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni and a puzzling poisoning case. Her assistant Mma Makutsi proves her worth.

Mma Ramotswe has become engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, the garage owner, but his rude and exploitative maid has other ideas, and tries to frame her for a serious offense.

Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business.

Akimbo goes to the rescue of a zoologist who is injured on his father's game preserve.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

On a trip to the snake park with his Uncle Peter, Akimbo has an adventure involving a deadly green mamba snake.

Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend.

After a patient dies accidentally, an impeccably credentialed doctor is accused of fraudulent involvement with a new drug.

When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen.