When a beautiful young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites, officials decide she is either dumb or high, but when they discover her behavior is due to a bullet in her brain, they attempt to learn what happened to her and who wants her dead.
New York City policewoman Kathleen Mallory investigates the murder of a young woman only blocks away from her own home, who was wearing a jacket with the label "Kathleen Mallory.".
Judy Hammer, sent to Richmond, Virginia, to help clean up their police force, becomes involved, along with her deputy chief, in the most challenging case of her career.
California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance chases an escaped killer and cult leader known as the "Son of Manson," whose murder of a wealthy computer engineer's family years ago left the youngest daughter alive.
Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles discovers that the corpse on her table is alive and rushes her to the hospital; however, the woman murders a security guard and takes hostages, among them the pregnant wife of FBI agent Gabriel Dean.
Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, embarks on a very personal investigation when she believes her daughter Jenny may be next on the list of a murderer who killed Jenny's tentmate just days after the two girls stumbled across a dead heiress while on a scouting trip.
Arly Hanks, chief of police in the town of Maggody, must use all her low-tech resourcefulness to quiet down the townfolks--already riled up over the installation of a computer lab at the new high school--when a dead body is discovered in an abandoned shack.
When the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, the island of Tangier responds by declaring war on its own state, and it is up to Judy Hammer, the new superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and state trooper Andy Brazil to restore peace to the island.
Homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are called to Boston's Chinatown to investigate the murder of a young woman who has been nearly decapitated and their only clue leads them back to a cold case from nineteen years earlier that is linked to a mysterious martial arts master and an ancient Chinese legend.
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles's SUV stalls on a mountain road, leaving her and her friends to seek refuge in the seemingly abandoned village called Kingdom Come, but when Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives word that Maura's charred body was discovered in a ravine, she sets out to hunt down the killer and unravel the secrets concerning Maura's fate.
