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When the daughter of a prominent Boston surgeon dies after an illegal abortion, a pathologist, Dr John Berry, sets out to clear the colleague accused of performing it.
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The Surgeon
A killer is breaking into Boston apartments and operating on women in their beds, and detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli see that his methods mirror an attack in Savannah two years earlier, whose survivor, Dr. Catherine Cordell, now works as a trauma surgeon in their city.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
Down the River Unto the Sea
Joe King Oliver, a New York detective framed and thrown off the force, now a private investigator, gets a letter that sets him looking into his own case and that of a Black journalist on death row.
Briarpatch
Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.
Postmortem
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner, works the case of a killer strangling women in their bedrooms in Richmond, while a leak to the press and colleagues who resent her put her own job on the line.
Promised Land
Spenser, the Boston private eye, is hired to find a missing housewife from Cape Cod, and finds her among a group of militant feminists planning a robbery.
Bluebird, Bluebird
Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger on suspension, drives up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman have both been found dead in the bayou.
Black Water Rising
In 1981 Jay Porter, a struggling Black lawyer in Houston who was once a student radical, takes his pregnant wife on a cheap birthday boat ride on the bayou, hears gunshots, and pulls a white woman out of the water.
Frog
A playwright writes to a Japanese writer about his aunt Gugu, a village doctor in Gaomi who delivered thousands of babies and then enforced China's one-child policy.
Midwives
During an ice storm in rural Vermont in 1981, midwife Sibyl Danforth performs an emergency caesarean on a mother she believes has died in labour and is charged with manslaughter; her daughter Connie, fourteen at the time and now an obstetrician, tells the story of the trial.
Arrowsmith
Martin Arrowsmith, a young doctor from the Midwest drawn to pure research by a stern German bacteriologist, tries to keep faith with science through medical school, country practice, public health and fame.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.