Book of the Dead

Steht bald auch ihr Name im Totenbuch des Leichenschauhauses? Scarpettas schwierigster und bedrohlichster Fall.

Kay Scarpetta versucht einen neuen Anfang, um vor den Dämonen der Vergangenheit zu fliehen. Doch ihrem alten Todfeind kann sie auch in Charleston, South Carolina, nicht entkommen: Er sitzt in einer psychiatrischen Anstalt an der Ostküste und sorgt dafür, dass es die berühmte Pathologin bald mit einem bestialischen Mord zu tun bekommt.
Am Anfang sieht es für Kay Scarpetta, ihre Nichte Lucy und Pete Marino in Charleston, South Carolina, gut aus. Ihr neu eröffnetes forensisches Labor für Pathologie floriert. Doch wie aus heiterem Himmel beschuldigt sie ein mächtiger Politiker der Profitgier. Ist dieser Mann auch für die Sabotage in ihrem Labor verantwortlich? Oder wer sonst will Kay Scarpetta aus Charleston vertreiben? Dann wird die Pathologin mit dem brutalen Mord an einer Frau in deren Luxusapartment am Strand konfrontiert. Es folgen zwei weitere Mordfälle, einer barbarischer als der andere. Und als viertes Opfer steht Kay Scarpetta auf der Todesliste.

Zusatztext Praise for Book of the Dead Cornwell overhauls key elements of this successful series...she has shaken things up a bit and produced one terrific new character. The New York Times Book Review Ms. Cornwell admits to being proud of Book of the Dead and she should be.Midwest Book Review Compelling. Richmond Times Dispatch What a walloping! riveting mix of...adventure and psychology. Author Cornwell certainly is skilled at dissecting the not always attractive innards of human nature. Forbes Informationen zum Autor Patricia Cornwell Klappentext Scarpetta , an all-new Original Series, is out now on Prime Video! Enter the chilling and captivating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta before Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the mystery to life onscreen. The new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia's masterful storytelling and a warningthere WILL be BLOOD. Jamie Lee Curtis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve a string of murders more bafflingand terrifyingthan any that have come before. 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 Dr. Kay 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 win 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 has she seen anything like what she's facing now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many namesand the pen may be poised to write her own. . . . Rome. Water splashing. A gray mosaic tile tub sunk deep into a terracotta floor. Water pours slowly from an old brass spout, and darkness pours through a window. On the other side of old, wavy glass is the piazza, and the fountain, and the night. She sits quietly in water, and the water is very cold, with melting ice cubes in it, and there is little in her eyesnothing much there anymore. At first, her eyes were like hands reaching out to him, begging him to save her. Now her eyes are the bruised blue of dusk. Whatever was in them has almost left. Soon she will sleep. Here, he says, handing her a tumbler that was handblown in Murano and now is filled with vodka. He is fascinated by parts of her that have never seen the sun. They are pale like limestone, and he turns the spigot almost off, and the water is a trickle now, and he watches her rapid breathing and hears the chattering of her teeth. Her white breasts float beneath the surface of the water, delicate like white flowers. Her nipples, hard from the cold, are tight pink buds. Then he thinks of pencils. Of chewing off nubby pink erasers when he was in school, and telling his father and sometimes his mother that he didn't need erasers because he didn't make mistakes. When in truth, he liked to chew. He couldn't help it, and that also was the truth. You'll remember my name, he says to her. I won't, she says. I can forget it. Chattering. He knows why she says it: If she forgets his name, her destiny will be rethought like a bad ba...

Praise for Book of the Dead

“Cornwell overhauls key elements of this successful series...she has shaken things up a bit and produced one terrific new character.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Ms. Cornwell admits to being proud of Book of the Dead and she should be.”—Midwest Book Review

“Compelling.”—Richmond Times Dispatch
 
“What a walloping, riveting mix of...adventure and psychology. Author Cornwell certainly is skilled at dissecting the not always attractive innards of human nature.”—Forbes

Autorentext

Patricia Cornwell

Klappentext

**Scarpetta, an all-new Original Series, is out now on Prime Video!

Enter the chilling and captivating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta before Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the mystery to life onscreen.

“The new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling… and a warning……there WILL be BLOOD.” – Jamie Lee Curtis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before.**

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 Dr. Kay 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 win 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 has she seen anything like what she’s facing now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names—and the pen may be poised to write her own. . . .

Leseprobe

Rome. Water splashing. A gray mosaic tile tub sunk deep into a terracotta floor.

Water pours slowly from an old brass spout, and darkness pours through a window. On the other side of old, wavy glass is the piazza, and the fountain, and the night.

She sits quietly in water, and the water is very cold, with melting ice cubes in it, and there is little in her eyes—nothing much there anymore. At first, her eyes were like hands reaching out to him, begging him to save her. Now her eyes are the bruised blue of dusk. Whatever was in them has almost left. Soon she will sleep.

“Here,” he says, handing her a tumbler that was handblown in Murano and now…