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1	Black Notice more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Point of Origin more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	All That Remains more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives ...and leaving just one tantalising clue ...When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Body of Evidence more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ...Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ...Thus begins ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek more books like this by Annie Dillard Chronicling the round of seasons in Roanoke Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the author displays a wide knowledge of her small - yet universal - world. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1974. see all copies from £2.12! new only from £8.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Misty of Chincoteague more books like this by Marguerite Henry 1997 marks the 50th anniversary of Misty of Chincoteague, the Newbery Honor-winning book that launched Marguerite Henry's career. Now one of America's most revered children's authors, Ms. Henry is still writing. She has gathered an enormous following, and has received innumerable awards, including another Newbery Honor in 1954 for Justin Morgan ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel more books like this by Virginia Lee Burton (Illustrator) Mike Mulligan loved his steam shovel, and even when the bright new motor shovels arrived there was less and less work for them to do, he was determined that she would not be scrapped like the rest of the steam shovels. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
8	Red Badge of Courage more books like this by Stephen Crane This Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane's classic 1895 Civil War novel is again based on the first published edition, conservatively edited. The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish more books like this by Mark R Levin (Read by) Although Mark Levin is known as a constitutional lawyer and a nationally syndicated broadcaster, he is, first and foremost, a dog lover. In 1998, he and his family welcomed a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi into their lives. Six years later, his wife and son persuaded him to adopt a dog from the local shelter, a Spaniel mix ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £8.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Unnatural Exposure more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Thanksgiving more books like this by Janet Evanovich Megan had wept over one failed love, and it hurt to risk again. But being with Dr. Patrick Hunter, making Thanksgiving dinner for their families, filled her with such longing that Megan began to suspect that the doctor who kissed her breathless could heal her scars. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.28! \| first editions
12 view cover	To the Lighthouse more books like this by Virginia Woolf The text of this edition of To the Lighthouse is that of the English page proofs corrected by Virginia Woolf for the first American edition. This text comes closer than any previously published to presenting the novel as she intended it. All the corrections she made on the page proofs are reproduced, and the punctuation of the proofs is retained. ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Last Precinct more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security she needs when she discovers that Anna has been sub- poenaed to appear before a ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Hot zone more books like this by Richard Preston As the tropical wildernesses of the world are destroyed, and nature's balance is thereby upset, previously unknown viruses are ready to emerge from the wreckage and enter human populations. In 1967 in Germany, a healthy monkey-keeper died a remarkably swift and gruesome death which mystified the medical profession. Outbreaks of a similarly ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Trace more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	From Potter's Field more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Cause of Death more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters ...New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Body Farm more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Cruel & Unusual more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ...At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Follow the river more books like this by James Alexander Thom Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.28! \| first editions
21 view cover	Wish You Well more books like this by David Baldacci When the Cardinal family suffers a car accident and only 12-year-old Lou and 7-year-old Oz survive unscathed, their great-grandmother agrees to raise the children on her Virginia farm. But soon their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Simple Genius more books like this by David Baldacci As former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell investigate a murder at an exclusive scientific retreat, they find themselves in a race against time to stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself. Now in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Postmortem more books like this by Patricia D Cornwell A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Known World more books like this by E Jones Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for "Paradise Lost" and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Hours more books like this by Michael Cunningham Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer prize and Pen Faulkner prize The third novel from the author of A Home at the End of the World, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair . Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions

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