Book of the Dead

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 crime scene investigation and autopsies. It seems like an ideal situation - until the murders begin.

A woman is ritualistically 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 had 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...