A wounded Confederate soldier journeys home toward the end of the Civil War to meet an old love and a new world. 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.
The bonds of four old classmates are strained when a stranger enters their lives. A detective probes the murder of a Long Island couple who may have been involved in germ warfare research. A World War II veteran meets an old flame who is about to be married. Death and secrets haunt a once-prosperous merchant family in contemporary India. Two thousand years of life in Britain's capital as seen through the eyes of six families.