Postmortem:
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom.

Body Of Evidence:
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls.

All That Remains:
When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements.

Cruel And Unusual:
At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair.

The Body Farm:
The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year.

From Potter's Field:
Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta.

Cause Of Death:
New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet.

Unnatural Exposure:
Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder.

Point Of Origin:
Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire.

Black Notice:
TAn intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home.