Best Selling Books by Patricia Daniels

From the Publisher: Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. And the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis star will usher in a string of murders more baffling -- and terrifying -- than any that have come before.

The discovery of the decomposed body of a stowaway aboard a cargo ship leads Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta to a perilous international odyssey on a mission that could destroy her career and threatens her own life.

It is New Year''s Eve and Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover he very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter.

Female medical examiner Kay Scarpetta tries to unmask the maniac who is murdering women. Someone from the inside is trying to sabotage her investigation and someone else wants her dead.

Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor, and on Cape Cod, Kay''s niece Lucy Farinelli begins to suspect that she has made a terrible mistake. 1,200,000 first printing.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.

Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself up against a killer who hids his crimes with fire

Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time. 1,500,000 first printing. BOMC, Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

The new police chief of Richmond, Virginia, Judy Hammer struggles to cope with her grief over the death of her husband, political turmoil, and police corruption, as she and her deputy chief, Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil work to clean up a city in trouble

Now freelancing from South Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, Virginia, only to encounter a host of baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Reprint.

Kriminalroman.

The electrifying follow-up to Hornet''s Nest and Southern Cross. The men and women in blue -- as you''ve never seen them before.

The inner workings of the Charlotte, N.C., police department are revealed through the interactions of a reporter/volunteer cop, the Police Chief, and her deputy chief.

Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers.