Book of the Dead | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  664 reviews
Sales Rank: 879
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000W94G2W
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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"From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. 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. A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones that face her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names-and the pen may be poised to write her own. The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall."
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 Disappointing January 7, 2009
JEB
I don't recognize the characters we have come to know from the previous Sacarpetta novels. Boring, weird, and mean are some adjectives that come to mind. I am halfway through Book of the Dead, and am just about to give up. Interesting that all the reviews on the 'sellers' page are positive. Click on the balance and find the opposite, and many of them. This is my last Cornwell novel.
 Cornwell Disappoints January 6, 2009
Sully
Everyone in Kay Scarpetta's world is messed up and angry. Ms. Cornwell seems to have lost her character and supporting cast. The negativity from the characters permeates every page.
Giving Up December 29, 2008
Terry M. Mckinsey (Indianapolis, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read all the Kay Scarpetta books and while the first four or five were excellent, these last few have really gone downhill. I don't like the way the characters have developed; they have all become self-absorbed and like another reviewer mentioned, they are all just weird! I couldn't keep reading this book and got bored with the dialog. I'm reading Scarpetta now and if it doesn't get better, this will be the last Patricia Cornwell book I'll purchase.
Loyalty Test December 27, 2008
Shelia D. Harvey (Houston, Texas)
This novel tests the loyalty of Kay Scarpetta followers. The third-person narration keeps the reader from getting close to the characters. We never get a feel for the killer--can't hate him, can't grudgingly respect the method to his madness, can't feel sorry for him; all because we know next to nothing about him. Can't really care about the victims, either. Of the recurring characters, only Marino (and Rose, to an extent) has texture, and even that is unsatisfying. The writing is cryptic. I could go on, but the bottom line is, you can skip this one. Bad Girls Finish First
I think it's time for Scarpetti to die a quiet death December 27, 2008
Janet T. Edwards (Callaway, VA USA)
I read the earliest Scarpetta books with enthusiasm and enjoyment; but after 4 or 5, it got too repetitive and I lost interest. After a long interim, I picked up this book to get reacquainted. What a waste of time---the storyline was incoherent, disjointed, trite. What else can I say? Someone needs to kill off Scarpetta.
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