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Book of the Dead is a 2007 crime novel written by Patricia Cornwell. It is the fifteenth book in the popular Kay Scarpetta series and the fourth consecutive novel in the series to be written in third-person omniscient style, rather than Cornwell's traditional first-person narrative.

Characters

Dr. Kay Scarpetta

Benton Wesley – FBI profiler. He is described in the following way:

"He was FBI right down to his Florsheim shoes, a sharp-featured man with prematurely silver hair suggesting a mellow disposition that wasn't there."

Lucy Farinelli – Kay's niece. Described as being, "a genius, an impossible little holy terror of enigmatic Latin descent whose father died when she was small. Her mother Dorothy (Scarpetta's sister), who was too caught up in writing children's books to worry much about her flesh-and-blood daughter."

Pete Marino – Detective Sergeant in the Richmond Police Department. Described as "pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of greying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. At least six feet tall, he was bay-windowed from decades of bourbon or beer".

Rose – Kay's secretary

Reception

Cornwell's Scarpetta series has been criticized for being repetitive and morbid by some critics whilst other reviewers claim that the characters in Cornwell's recent books have been "shallow" and "overused". Others have praised the series for the unique plots in the series and Cornwell's characterisation of Scarpetta.

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