Scarpetta #15

Hardcover

First Person

Fiction

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The ’book of the dead’ is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however it’s about to have a new meaning.
Fresh from her brushing battle with a psychopath in Florida. Scarpetta decides its time for a change if pace. Moving to the historic city if Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the murders and other violent deaths begin.

A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome.

Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now. Before she is through, that book of dead will contain many names - and a pen may be poised to write her own.

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