Dr. Kay Scarpetta contends with a killer who uses a smallpox-like virus and cyberspace tricks. A discharged Los Angeles cop finds unexpected challenges as police chief in a small New England town. Dr. Temperance Brennan hunts a serial killer at large in Montreal. The professional cook and amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz investigates the murder of her former husband's girlfriend. A detective probes the murder of a Long Island couple who may have been involved in germ warfare research.
Romance comes to a mature couple who disliked each other in earlier encounters.
The third volume of a trilogy about the trysts and intrigues of a family who owns a casino. The President of the United States enlists the legal aid of Martin Vail to put down a coup by an ultra-right wing military group. After her husband leaves her for another woman, a college professor returns to the place where she spent her youth to seek a second chance at love. An Atlanta woman, after a bad marriage and her mother's death, seeks a new life on Martha's Vineyard. A businesswoman on the trail of her favorite brother, who has vanished along with a fortune in stolen jewelry.