Keeping the Dead

'A seamless blend of good writing and pulse-racing tension.' Independent
HE HIDES, HE KILLS, HE KEEPS . . .
Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror she realises that it-s not as ancient as they thought...A very modern bullet is showing up on the scan.
Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second - and then a third - mummified body. Who is this killer and why does he preserve his victims so meticulously?
And who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?

International bestselling author TESS GERRITSEN began to write fiction whilst on maternity leave as a physician. She published her first novel in 1987 and has since sold over forty million copies of her books in forty countries.
Her series featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the television series Rizzoli and Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.
Now retired from medicine, she lives in Maine and writes full time.

"A seamless blend of good writing and pulse-racing tension" -- Independent 20090226 "Tess is at the classiest end of crime writing. On reading her you know that you are in the hands of a master" -- Boyd Hilton SIMON MAYO PROGRAMME, BBC Radio 5 Live "Spectacularly gory and utterly gripping in equal measure" INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 20091213