Best of
Murder-Mystery

1995

The First Scarpetta Collection: Postmortem / Body of Evidence


Patricia Cornwell - 1995
    Hugely successful when they were first published, these are the two novels that brought Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta to the book-reading world. They are presented here complete and unabridged. Postmortem A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is little pattern: the killer appears to strike at random -- but always early on Saturday mornings. When Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is awakened at 2:33 A.M., she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim, and she fears now for those who may follow unless she finds the forensic evidence that can break the case. But not everyone wants her help. Not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation before she can find the killer. Body of Evidence A reclusive writer is dead, and her final manuscript has disappeared... Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West -- but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer inside. Thus begins for Dr. Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who would brutally slash and then neatly decapitate her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prizewinning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Hide and Seek


James Patterson - 1995
    So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands?Will Shephard was Maggie's second husband.A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just as famous. But Will had dark, dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined... that his own wife could never dreamed of.

Death in Bloodhound Red


Virginia Lanier - 1995
    Then she' s suspected of murder and finds herself treading a quagmire as thick and treacherous as the Okefenokee Swamp. If she can' t prove her innocence, she might lose not only th thriving business she loves, but the freedom and independence she' s fought for all her life.

Three Complete Novels: J is for Judgment / K is for Killer / L is for Lawless


Sue Grafton - 1995
    Featuring former cop turned private investigator Kinsey Millhone—one of the most popular sleuths in modern fiction—these three compelling titles deal with false suicide, an unsolved case of murder, and a true test of Kinsey's skills, making each mystery one of Grafton's best.

Indemnity Only / Blood Shot / Burn Marks (V.I. Warshawski, #1, #5-6)


Sara Paretsky - 1995
    She talks tough and lives hard, but she's got a soft spot for good causes. She's the best private detective in Chicago and she knows it. She's V .I. Warshawski, the star of Sara Paretsky's wildly successful mystery series. V. I. made her debut in Indemnity Only, and her fame spread even further when Kathleen Turner played the title role in the recent movie V.I. Warshawski. Fans can plunge into three of Sara Paretsky's most dazzling mysteries-published together for the first time in this spectacular volume.