Used book – *The Book of the Dead*, Patricia Cornwell

At the morgue, all deaths are recorded in the Register of the Dead. This book will soon take on a different meaning for Kay Scarpetta. When she moves to Charleston, South Carolina, to open a forensic pathology practice with her niece Lucy and Pete Marino, she thinks she's starting a new life. But she quickly clashes with local politicians, and it's clear that someone is trying to sabotage her project. Then a series of violent deaths occur: a ritual murder, a child victim of abuse, a tennis player found mutilated in Rome, with no other connection between these cases than a certain patient at a prestigious psychiatric hospital in New England. Other names will be added to the Register of the Dead, perhaps even Kay's...