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Book of the Dead
Patricia Cornwell
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Description for Book of the Dead
hardcover. The latest in the bestselling series featuring fiction's original pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 662. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. With light reading wear, remains a nice copy
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. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, ... Read more
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. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316724234
SKU
KSG0017097
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier ... Read more
Reviews for Book of the Dead
Classic Cornwell territory with...a sharp political element that will ensure the book isn't on George Bush's bedside table
Daily Express
Serving up an Ace....Cornwell is firmly back on the money here.
Daily Mirror
Patricia Cornwell is the queen of gritty, grisly, crime fiction writing and her latest offering doesn't disappoint. Book of the Dead will keep ... Read more
Daily Express
Serving up an Ace....Cornwell is firmly back on the money here.
Daily Mirror
Patricia Cornwell is the queen of gritty, grisly, crime fiction writing and her latest offering doesn't disappoint. Book of the Dead will keep ... Read more