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 is one of the world's major internationally bestselling authors, translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. She is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City; and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. In 2008, Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Yearthe first American to win this prestigious award. In 2011, she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in Paris. Her earlier works include Postmortem the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single yearand Cruel & Unusual, which won Britain's Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author. 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 hi...

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 is one of the world’s major internationally bestselling authors, translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. She is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City; and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital’s National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. In 2008, Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards’ Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year—the first American to win this prestigious award. In 2011, she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in Paris. Her earlier works include Postmortem—the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year—and Cruel & Unusual, which won Britain’s Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.

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 En…