Red Mist

Book #19 in the Kay Scarpetta Series - Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author. This is Patricia Cornwell's 19th novel to feature forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding but on a string of grisly killings. The years-old murder of an Atlanta family, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers compelling connections...