Four writers create four women who face what others turn from. 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. 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.
