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The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to e

Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold." Robert W.

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss, but when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his

The eleventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series involves the pathologist and Detective Pete Marino in a new case and a threat that could radically change the course of Scarpetta's career.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.