Kate Burton

Hired to protect a spoiled C-movie actress, Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with chief of police Jesse Stone when the actress's sister is murdered, a partnership that reveals seedy complications behind the actress's producer boyfriend's lifestyle.

When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...

It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta, despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN, to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She's asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same telecast she receives a startling call from a former...

Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie is shot and nearly killed, Sunny is dragged into the thick of his family's business as she searches for answers and tries to stave off a mob war. But as the bullets start flying in Boston's mean streets, Sunny finds herself targeted by the deranged mastermind of the plot against the Burke family, whose motive...