- Fiction, Novela, Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Medical examiners (Law)
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.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Berkley, Le Grand livre du mois, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780143059141
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