02147cam a2200385 4500 406478531 TxAuBib 20191214120000.0 071128s2007||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780739487921 0739487922 TxAuBib Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Book of the dead / Patricia Cornwell. Doubleday large print home ed. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007. 640 pages (large print) ; 25 cm. [Book club ed.]. 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 have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly meant to run her out of town. And that's even before the murders and other violent deaths begin. 20191214. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character.) Medical examiners (Law) Fiction. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Women physicians Fiction. Forensic pathologists. Medical examiners (Law.) Women physicians. Large type books. Mystery fiction. South Carolina Fiction. South Carolina. Fiction. Medical novels.