Book of the dead af Patricia D. Cornwell (Bog)

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life.

Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique forensic pathology practice offering expert crime scene investigation and autopsies. It seems like an ideal situation – until the murders begin. A woman is ritually murdered in her expensive beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A young tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now...