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A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation ...

A la morgue, tous les décs sont consignés au Registre des morts. Ce livre va bientôt revtir une signification différente pour Kay Scarpetta. Lorsqu'elle s'installe Charleston, en Caroline-du-Sud, pour y ouvrir, avec sa nice Lucy et Pete Marino, un cabinet de médecine légale, elle pense commencer une nouvelle vie. Mais trs vite, elle entre en conflit avec des politiciens locaux, et on cherche visiblement saboter son projet. C'est alors que va se produire une série de morts violentes : un meurtre rituel, un enfant victime de sévices, une joueuse de tennis retrouvée mutilée Rome, sans autre lien entre ces affaires qu'une certaine patiente d'un prestigieux hôpital psychiatrique de Nouvelle-Angleterre. D'autres noms vont s'ajouter au Registre des morts, peut-tre mme celui de Kay...

A la morgue, tous les décs sont consignés au Registre des morts. Ce livre va bientôt revtir une signification différente pour Kay Scarpetta. Lorsqu'elle s'installe Charleston, en Caroline-du-Sud, pour y ouvrir, avec sa nice Lucy et Pete Marino, un cabinet de médecine légale, elle pense commencer une nouvelle vie. Mais trs vite, elle entre en conflit avec des politiciens locaux, et on cherche visiblement saboter son projet. C'est alors que va se produire une série de morts violentes : un meurtre rituel, un enfant victime de sévices, une joueuse de tennis retrouvée mutilée Rome, sans autre lien entre ces affaires qu'une certaine patiente d'un prestigieux hôpital psychiatrique de Nouvelle-Angleterre. D'autres noms vont s'ajouter au Registre des morts, peut-tre mme celui de Kay...

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. With her hallmark qualities of deft characterisation, perfect research and tense story-telling, Patricia Cornwell has created a novel which entertains, intrigues and satisfies.

Kay Scarpetta, promue consultante l'Académie nationale des sciences légales de Floride, se trouve plongée dans une affaire de meurtres o les indices matériels divergent mais semblent confirmer l'hypothse d'un tueur agissant sans mobile. Paralllement, elle enqute sur l'étrange disparition, dans un quartier en apparence tranquille, de quatre personnes. Marino, lui, découvre, dans une maison voisine, le corps martyrisé d'une femme... Pour élucider ces affaires, Kay Scarpetta dispose des seules informations que lui fournit un psychopathe : est-ce pour l'aider ou, au contraire, pour brouiller les pistes, sans raison ?

Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology, and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard. And as Garano unearths deadly secrets from the past, his hard-nosed boss Monique Lamont is putting both their lives in jeopardy with her lust for power and success. With past and present colliding, the tension mounts with every page...

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 its time for a c hange 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 ac cess to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the murders and other violent deaths begin. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young b oy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, a s the ones before 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.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.