Book of the Dead
About this book
From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.The "Book of the Dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but also geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly meant to run her out of town. And that's even before the murders and other violent deaths begin. A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones that face her now. Before she is through, that Book of the Dead will contain many names-and the pen may be poised to write her own.The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
Kay Scarpetta · 24 books
In publication order- 14 Predator 2005
- 15 Book of the Dead 2007 This book
- 16 Scarpetta 2008
- 17 The Scarpetta Factor 2009
Subjects
- carolina del sur
- femmes médecins
- fiction
- fiction, medical
- fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- forensic pathologists
- forensic pathologists, fiction
- kay scarpetta (fictional character)
- kay scarpetta (fictitious character)
- médecins légistes
- medical examiners (law)
- medicos forenses (derecho)
- médicos forenses (derecho)
- mujeres como médicos
- mujeres medicos
- novela
- novela policiaca
- novela policíaca
- pathologistes judiciaires
- romans, nouvelles
- scarpetta, kay (caracter ficticio)
- scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), fiction
- scarpetta, kay (personaje literario)
- south carolina, fiction
- suspense
- thriller
- women physicians
- women physicians, fiction