Dr. Kay Scarpetta contends with a killer who uses a smallpox-like virus and cyberspace tricks.
Romance comes to a mature couple who disliked each other in earlier encounters.
A wounded Confederate soldier journeys home toward the end of the Civil War to meet an old love and a new world. A detective probes the murder of a Long Island couple who may have been involved in germ warfare research. A troubled cop and the wife of a sinister attorney go on a tear in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. A World War II veteran meets an old flame who is about to be married. Barbara Havers probes the murder of a respected Asian resident of a British coastal town.