num_pages: 511
description: 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.
language: English
title: Book of the Dead
titlecomplete: Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
characters: Kay Scarpetta, Lucy Springbrook, Benton Wesley, Dr. Self, Pete Marino
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 32009
places: Charleston, South Carolina
series: Kay Scarpetta
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Galaxy British Book Awards
category: Crime Thriller of the Year Award
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons