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Book of the Dead: Scarpetta (Book 15) (The Scarpetta Series) by Cornwell, Patricia is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. And the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis star will usher in a string of murders more bafflingand terrifyingthan any that have come before. From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator ) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin's murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she's ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a st

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Author
Cornwell, Patricia
Publisher
Berkley
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101155905
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
True Crime, Fiction, Crime
Rating
4.1 / 5 (5,490 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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