Kay Scarpetta faces a string of the most baffling and terrifying crimes of her career, in Cornwell\'s extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller.
Before she is through, that Book of the dead will contain many names--and the pen may be poised to write her own....
Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never has she seen a string of death like what she\'s facing now.
Meanwhile, in New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections among the deaths that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible.
A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home.
The body of an abused young boy is dumped in a desolate marsh.
A sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament win Charleston, is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome.
For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning.
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand.
But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling--and terrifying--than any that have come before...
Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
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For Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning.
The Book of the dead is the morgue log in which all cases are entered by hand.
Kay Scarpetta faces a string of the most baffling and terrifying crimes of her career, in Cornwell\'s extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller
