基本信息出版社：Berkley Books
页码：404 页
出版日期：2008年04月
ISBN：0425216217
条形码：9780425216217
装帧：平装
开本：32
正文语种：英语
外文书名：死亡之书

内容简介 The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning.

Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, seems like the ideal situation for Scarpetta and her colleagues, Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy. But then come the deaths.

A Sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament with in Charleston, is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. The body of an abused young boy is dumped in a desolate marsh. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home. Meanwhile, in New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections among the deaths that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible.

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

“Cornwell remains the master of incorporating real-life science into pulse-pounding fiction.”
-----------The Philadelphia Inquirer

作者简介 Patricia Cornwell is the Director of Applied Forensic Science at the National Forensic Academy. Her most recent number one bestsellers include At Risk, Predator, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed. Her earlier work includes Postmortem - the only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Romman d”Aventure in a single year and Cruel & Unusual, which won Britain’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.