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After a harrowing case in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta moves to Charleston, South Carolina, to start a unique private forensic pathology practice with colleagues Pete Marino and niece Lucy. There, she and the team provide autopsies and crime‑scene investigations to communities lacking modern death‑investigation resources. Their promising start is disrupted by political resistance and covert sabotage aimed at ousting them. As the murders unfold—from a water‑tower jump to a ritualistic beach‑home killing and a abused boy’s body in a marsh—the case ties back to a prominent patient in a Harvard‑affiliated psychiatric hospital in New England. Scarpetta’s expertise is tested by these unusually complex crimes, and the ledger of the morgue—her “Book of the Dead”—becomes a record that may even include her own name.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Thriller/Medical Thriller
Authors: Patricia Cornwell
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