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It's February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as The Plague Doctor. Teresa has taken time out from her job to find her beloved bohemian aunt Sofia who has mysteriously disappeared. There seem to be no clues as to her whereabouts, but a visit to Sofia's very strange apartment in the Dorsoduro confirms Teresa's suspicions that all is not well.

Amanda Gleason's infant son Justin suffers from a rare immune deficiency. His best chance for survival died with his father, Paul, who was murdered before Justin was born. But when a recent photo surfaces of a man who looks like a very-much-alive Paul, Amanda hires Forensic Instincts to investigate.

Daria, an Iraqi refugee, has lost everything she holds dear--and now seeks revenge on those responsible. Recruited for a dangerous mission, she boards a plane to New York with instructions to make contact with--and infect--as many as possible. Meanwhile, American scientist Dr. Sam Watterman is asked by the government to help locate a new threat to homeland security.

Cork O'Connor is framed for the murder of Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little. As Cork fights to clear his name and uncover the truth, he discovers that events from his own past may hold the key to the real killer's identity.

John May and Arthur Bryant are immersed in a case as bizarre as anything they've encountered during their storied careers. A baby has been thrown from the window of a locked room, and all the clues point to the room's only other occupant: a grotesque antique puppet.

Chris Meadows is a successful Miami architect who's leaving a meeting with an ex-girlfriend when he sees a car strike his ex, killing her. But the nightmare is only just beginning. As a witness to the crime, Chris knows the car's passengers--thugs linked to Miami's deadliest drug lords--are sure to come after him next. But what can he do if the police refuse to give him protection?

Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.

From feuding scientists to ailing locals, Sarah Booth Delaney finds no shortage of bad blood coursing through the little town of Zinnia, Mississippi, as she drops everything to stop an outbreak of boll weevils and save the only place she's ever been able to call home.

While Pecan Springs bustles back to life in the warmth of spring, one woman's life is tragically brought to an end. Assigned to cover the story, an intern from the local paper gets too deeply involved. When she disappears, China is determined to find her--before the young journalist becomes headlines herself.

When ruthless assassin Klaus Reiner is hired to kill an American industrialist vacationing in France, he doesn't count on three tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And he certainly doesn't count on any trouble from an aging yet dogged investigator by the name of Inspector Paul Mazarelle.