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New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver is dead. Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths for a story or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call reporting the death before the police were notified?

Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. She and her husband, Benton, are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon, in a post-pandemic world that's been torn apart by civil and political unrest. Just weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to investigate a woman's body that has been shockingly displayed on railroad tracks. As Scarpetta follows the trail, it leads unnervingly close to her own neighborhood....

Eine rätselhafte Mordserie versetzt die Gefangenen im Hochsicherheitstrakt von Savannah in Angst und Schrecken. Scarpetta besucht das Frauengefängnis, wo jemandem die Todesstrafe offenbar nicht grausam genug ist. Und der Täter hat es noch auf weit mehr Opfer abgesehen.

Eine verschwundene Paläontologin, von der nur noch das Foto ihres abgeschnittenen Ohrs existiert. Und die Mumie einer Frau, die im Bostoner Hafen gefunden wird. Dr. Kay Scarpetta bekommt es mit einer ebenso düsteren wie bizarren Mordserie zu tun, die sie selbst in größte Schwierigkeiten bringt. Kay Scarpetta ist als Zeugin im Prozess gegen einen Öl-Tycoon geladen, dem der Mord an seiner spurlos verschwundenen Ehefrau vorgeworfen wird.

Due fidanzati, scomparsi da diversi mesi, vengono ritrovati cadaveri. Il caso si prospetta subito difficile, le due vittime sono ormai ridotte a corpi scheletriti e il loro esame non può fornire molti dettagli. Il capo dell'ufficio di medicina legale di Richmond, Kay Scarpetta, non è però una persona che si arrende facilmente, tanto più che la morte dei due presenta molte rassomiglianze con quella di altre coppie assassinate sempre nella stessa zona. Le indagini di Kay saranno però ostacolate da imprevedibili difficoltà.

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away.

Port Mortuary - letteralmente il porto dei morti - è il luogo in cui vengono smistati i cadaveri dei caduti in guerra della base dell'Aeronautica militare di Dover. È qui che Kay Scarpetta sta seguendo un corso di addestramento sulle autopsie virtuali quando, in una fredda sera di febbraio, viene richiamata in tutta fretta dalla nipote Lucy e dall'investigatore Pete Marino al CFC di Boston, il nuovo centro di medicina forense civile e militare da lei diretto.

Alla vigilia di una missione spaziale top secret, il capitano Calli Chase si rende conto che nei tunnel sotterranei del centro di ricerca della NASA qualcosa non va. Pilota della NASA, ingegnere aerospaziale e investigatrice specializzata in cybercriminalità, Calli sa bene che una tempesta incombente, unita a un guasto nei sistemi di sicurezza, può fornire la copertura perfetta per un sabotaggio, con conseguenze fatali.

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss. But when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his edict that a rookie reporter accompany her on patrol.

Mentre Ronnie Joe Waddell sta per salire sulla sedia elettrica, la dottoressa Kay Scarpetta, capo dell'ufficio di medicina legale della Virginia, è intenta ai preparativi necessari per eseguirne l'autopsia. Ma la morte dell'uomo non è il solo evento di cui Kay debba occuparsi in quella fredda notte di dicembre. Poche ore prima è stato ritrovato un bambino col corpo orribilmente mutilato: un episodio di violenza sessuale che mostra inquietanti affinità con l'assassinio per cui Waddell è stato condannato. 

Fünf ermordete Paare, keinerlei Beweise... Kay Scarpetta jagt den Pärchenmörder. In Williamsburg, Virginia geht ein Serienmörder um, der es auf junge Liebespaare abgesehen hat. Vier Pärchen sind in den vergangenen zwei Jahren vermisst gemeldet und erst Monate später tot aufgefunden worden – immer im Wald und schon so verwest, dass selbst eine erfahrene Gerichtsmedizinerin wie Kay Scarpetta keine Todesursache feststellen konnte.

Als Kay Scarpetta nach einem furchtbaren Einsatz an ihr Institut zurückkehrt, wartet gleich der nächste Fall auf sie: eine in Leinenstoff eingewickelte Frauenleiche, die man auf dem Campusgelände gefunden hat. Es handelt sich um die Informatikstudentin Gail Shipton, die zuletzt in einer beliebten Bar gesehen wurde, in der auch Scarpettas Nichte Lucy gern verkehrt. Ein Zufall? Die forensische Untersuchung legt nahe, dass die Studentin Opfer eines Serienmörders wurde.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost 20 years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her beloved niece that raise dangerous legal implications, leaving Scarpetta confused, worried, and unable to turn to Lucy, her FBI husband Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner Pete Marino.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.

It's a sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday. She's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. Is this a kids' game? And if so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet no one has heard or seen a thing.

An ihrem Geburtstag findet Kay Scarpettas auf ihrer Mailbox eine kryptische Nachricht von einem gewissen "Copperhead", und kurz darauf entdeckt sie an ihrer Gartenmauer sieben blank polierte Münzen. Ein alberner Scherz? Bevor sie darüber nachdenken kann, klingelt das Telefon und Detective Pete Marino berichtet ihr, dass ganz in ihrer Nähe ein Mann erschossen wurde. Auf dem blank polierten Projektil, so stellt man später fest, ist die Zahl 3 eingraviert. Es ist bereits der dritte Mord, der nach diesem Muster begangen wurde - und die Opfer stammten alle aus Scarpettas Umfeld. Sieben Münzen, drei Morde: bleiben noch vier.

Dopo un'assenza durata parecchi anni, l'anatomopatologa forense Kay Scarpetta torna in Virginia, lo Stato dove ha avuto inizio la sua brillante carriera. Kay e suo marito Benton Wesley, ora psicologo forense per i servizi segreti americani, si sono trasferiti ad Alexandria, a pochi chilometri dal Pentagono, in un mondo post-pandemico lacerato da disordini civili e politici. Scarpetta è diventata capo medico legale, ma si trova a lavorare con una segretaria prepotente e a gestire una situazione di trascuratezza e presunta corruzione.

Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures.

Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than 40 years ago. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology, and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard.

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a 20-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open.