false<![CDATA[Book Of The Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165603722m/6526.jpg652636Kay Scarpetta is back for another adventure with her sidekick Pete Morino, her niece Lucy, and lover Benton Wesley. The forensic pathologist again must use her knowledge to solve the murder of a teen-age tennis star. Neice Lucy uses all her high tech devices, & Kay helps out in her private labs, looking for DNA, and any clues to help identify the killer.
From America's # 1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on 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 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 autopsy services to communities lacking local access to modern, competent death investigation 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 Scarpetta out of town. And that's before the murders and other violent deaths even begin.
A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-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.
Kay Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones confronting her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names-and the pen may be poised to write in her own.
The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.3602953book23102007Book Of The Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)total:3741|5:655|4:1088|3:1256|2:526|1:216|3741126635356567222falsefalseMon Dec 03 21:20:49 -0800 2007Sat Nov 03 17:15:05 -0700 2007Mon Dec 03 21:20:16 -0800 2007 I have read all of Patricia Cornwell previous books that have included Dr. Kay Scarpetta. I am going to place those bo...more...]]>
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11falsefalseSat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Fri Dec 21 15:56:11 -0800 2007Fri Dec 21 16:07:14 -0800 2007 I love old-school Patricia Cornwell. I have read The Body Farm numerous times. I love From Potter's Field, All that Remains, etc. She's what got me hooked...more...]]>
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I really admire Cornwell's writing. She pulled me right into the details of the story, gave me a sense of the characters even though I'd never read any of her other books, and got me up on the action quickly, so we could get down to business.
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10falsefalseFri Jan 09 04:34:27 -0800 2009Fri Jan 09 04:34:46 -0800 2009 In my opinion this has got to be one of the worst books Cornwell has written.
Ok, I understand that the story have to do with people who have serious psychological problems but it seems that Cornwell decided to make all the characters ……. really mad.
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40falsefalseMon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Mon Dec 29 11:53:50 -0800 2008Mon Dec 29 12:03:39 -0800 2008 It doesn’t matter that in each book of the series—including Book of the Dead—the civilized world seems to be composed of about twenty-fi...more...]]>
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