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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.
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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.
Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
Darker Than Night
Frank Quinn, a New York homicide detective whose career was ended by a frame-up, is offered a way back when a killer the papers call the Night Prowler starts slipping into couples' homes.
All the Sinners Bleed
A year after Titus Crown becomes the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, a former student shoots a popular teacher at the high school and is killed by deputies, and what the shooter said before he died sends Titus after something far worse.
The Puppet Show
A killer is burning men alive in the stone circles of Cumbria, and Detective Sergeant Washington Poe, suspended and sulking, is called back when his own name turns up carved into one of the bodies.
The Mermaids Singing
A killer is torturing and murdering men in Bradfield, a northern English city, and Dr Tony Hill, a psychologist brought in to profile him, works with Detective Inspector Carol Jordan as the killer starts to write about his work.
Jar City
An old man is found battered to death in his basement flat in Reykjavík, with a note on the body that reads 'I am him', and Inspector Erlendur, finding no motive, starts digging into the dead man's past.
Rules of Prey
A killer the Minneapolis papers call the maddog leaves a note of his rules with each victim, and Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, a rich, restless detective who designs war games on the side, decides to beat him at his own game.
Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
Knots and Crosses
Detective Sergeant John Rebus, a former soldier, is drawn into the hunt for a killer of young girls in Edinburgh who has been sending him anonymous letters with knotted string and crosses.
The Bat
Harry Hole, a brilliant, self-destructive Oslo detective, hunts killers while fighting his own demons.
Long Bright River
Mickey, a Philadelphia police officer, patrols Kensington, the neighbourhood where her sister Kacey lives as an addict, and when Kacey goes missing during a string of murders, Mickey goes looking for her.