Women Who Won't Look Away, MIMT353B

A forensic pathologist, a medical examiner, an archaeologist, a detective -- each one called to a case that demands more than the job description asks for. What unites them is a refusal to stop when the evidence grows darker, and cases that make stopping impossible. Children's bones beneath a doorway, a teenager shot in a hostage standoff, a newborn snatched from a girl left for dead, a serial killer who leaves almost nothing to work with: the crimes at the heart of these novels reach into the lives of the most defenceless, and they demand investigators who take the work personally. These are books about what it costs a woman to keep looking and what she finds when she does. Four writers create four women who face what others turn from. This is crime fiction at its most unsparing.

Karin Slaughter, 'Kisscut' - When a teenager is shot dead in a hostage standoff in small-town Georgia, Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver find themselves pulled into a case far darker than anything Heartsdale has faced before.

James Patterson, '10th Anniversary' - A teenage girl found near death, her newborn baby missing... Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club face one of the most disturbing cases in the series.

Elly Griffiths, 'The Janus Stone' - When builders demolishing an old children's home uncover a child's bones beneath a doorway, Ruth Galloway begins to unpick a mystery with roots in both Roman ritual and recent crime.

Patricia Cornwell, 'Postmortem' - The novel that launched Kay Scarpetta: a serial killer loose in Richmond, leaving almost no trace, and a forensic pathologist who won't stop until she finds some.