Description
The Book of the Dead, the fifteenth novel in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, follows Dr Kay Scarpetta after her move to Charleston, South Carolina, where she launches a private forensics lab. Her new beginning is soon disrupted when she is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body has been found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and forensic psychologist Benton Wesley struggling to determine what happened.
The case takes a darker turn when Scarpetta uncovers unsettling connections between Martin’s murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, psychiatrist Dr Marilyn Self. As the separate threads begin to converge, Scarpetta finds herself confronting a killer as dangerous as any she has faced before.
