Body of evidence
After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is
being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a
terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she
returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her
door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in,
wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And why is Beryl's
latest manuscript missing? Pursuing the answers involves Scarpetta in
the murder of another writer -- Beryl's jealous mentor. While she copes
with a variety of personal and professional problems, Scarpetta's
high-tech forensic skills enable her to collect a body of evidence --
clues that would mean little without her intelligence, compassion, and
imagination -- that leads her directly into a nightmare all her own.
Postmortem
Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized
victims of a brilliant monster -- a "Mr. Nobody," moving undetected
through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of
carnage...but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the
latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical
examiner -- Kay Scarpetta -- is determined to unmask a maniac. But
someone is trying to sabotage Kay's investigation from the inside. And
worse yet, someone wants her dead...