A Share in Death introduces Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and begins with a setup that has become a classic entry point into the series. Kincaid takes what is supposed to be a restful holiday at a Yorkshire time-share…
Massacre Pond begins with Maine game warden Mike Bowditch being called to the scene of a bizarre and ugly crime: several moose have been found butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal-rights activist who is buying large…
Trespasser finds Maine game warden Mike Bowditch drawn into what first looks like a routine roadside incident: a woman has hit a deer on a remote road, but when Mike arrives, both the driver and the animal are gone. The…
All That Remains finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta facing a grim pattern of murders in Virginia, where young couples have been disappearing and later turning up dead in remote areas. The latest case becomes even more charged when one of the…
Body of Evidence begins when bestselling romance novelist Beryl Madison is found murdered after months of threatening phone calls and growing fear that she is being watched. As Virginia chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta works through the forensic evidence,…
Postmortem introduces Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, as she is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer targeting women across the city. The case offers very little to work with, and Scarpetta has to…
The Hallmarked Man sends Strike and Robin into a case that is grisly from the outset and unusually tangled even by this series’ standards. A dismembered body is discovered in the vault of a silver shop, and while police think…
The Couple’s Secret opens with a discovery that instantly turns a long-cold mystery into something painfully alive again: the bodies of a missing couple are found inside a submerged car in the river outside Denton, seven years after they vanished.…
Close Her Eyes opens with the death of a young woman found beside Kettlewell Creek, a case that at first seems tragic but ordinary compared with the horrors Josie Quinn has seen before. That changes when the autopsy reveals a…
The Drowning Girls opens with Detective Josie Quinn responding to a call that is grim even by her standards: the body of a young woman has been pulled from a creek on the edge of Denton, and no one seems…