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• TESS GERRITSEN : ICE COLD
As the chief of the new Cambridge
Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a
joint venture of the state and
federal governments and MIT,
Scarpetta is confronted with a case
that could shut down her new facility
and ruin her personally and
professionally. A young man drops
dead, apparently from a cardiac
arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta's
new Cambridge home. But when his
body is examined the next morning,
there are stunning indications that he
may have been alive when he was
zipped inside a pouch and locked
insider the Center's cooler. Various 3-
D radiology scans reveal more
shocking details about internal
injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever
seen. These suggest the possibility of a
conspiracy to cause mass casualties.
She realizes that she is fighting a
cunning and cruel enemy that is
invisible as she races against time to
discover who and why before more
people die.
• ROSIE GOODWIN : THE RIBBON
WEAVER
One winter's night, Molly Earnshaw
rescues a newborn baby from the
snow and changes two families for
ever. The tiny girl grows into a
beautiful and gifted young woman.
Although devoted to Molly, who she
believes is her grandmother, Amy has
far-reaching ambitions - encouraged
by her neighbour's son, Toby, she
longs to move beyond ribbon-weaving
to designing the hats and clothes the
ribbons adorn. Her talent is
recognised by Matthew Forrester, the
influential owner of famous hat
factories and shops. But Matthew is a
haunted man with secrets in his past
that torture him and his family. His
son's wife, Victoria, is deeply troubled,
and when Amy's flair leads her to
London and then Paris, Victoria is
consumed with jealousy. Amy's
dreams seem to be coming true, but
as more secrets are revealed and
Amy is caught between two worlds,
she must choose where her heart
t r u l y b e l o n g s .
• JAMES PATTERSON : CROSS
FIRE
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's
wedding plans are put on hold when
Alex is called to the scene of the
perfectly executed assassination of
two of Washington D.C.'s most
corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an
underhanded lobbyist. Next, the
elusive gunman begins picking off
other crooked politicians, sparking a
blaze of theories--is the marksman a
h e r o o r a v i g i l a n t e ?
The case explodes, and the FBI
assigns agent Max Siegel to the
investigation. As Alex and Siegel
battle over jurisdiction, the murders
continue. It becomes clear that they
are the work of a professional who
has detailed knowledge of his
victims' movements--information
that only a Washington insider could
possess.
As Alex contends with the sniper,
Siegel, and the wedding, he receives
a call from his deadliest adversary,
Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in
D.C. and will not relent until he has
eliminated Cross and his family for
good.
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• KATHY REICHS : SPIDER BONES
John Lowery was declared dead in
1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in
Vietnam, his body buried long ago in
North Carolina. Four decades later,
Temperance Brennan is called to the
scene of a drowning in Hemmingford,
Quebec. The victim appears to have
died while in the midst of a bizarre
sexual practice. The corpse is later
identified as John Lowery. But how
could Lowery have died twice, and
how did an American soldier end up in
Canada?
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