"When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking. Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs...

Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell has been invited by the Chinese government to teach a six-week course at the Beijing police university. She gets off to a bad start when her car knocks senior detective Li Yan off his bicycle. But Li soon finds himself reintroduced to Margaret by his superiors when the newly promoted detective's first case--one involving a hideously burned corpse--requires Margaret's special expertise. Thrown together to track...

In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.

Forensic pathologist Patience Forbes is a whiz with the dead- it's flesh-and-blood men who wreck her equilibrium. And cowboy Forest Stevens isn't fooled by the guarded beauty's icy facade. So when she's attacked, he appoints himself her personal bodyguard. Her very personal bodyguard. Patience is determined to investigate mysterious bones on the Holiday Ranch- not fall into bed with her sexy protector. But Forest is too masculine, too willing to lay...

Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...