Register of the dead - Patricia Cornwell

When she moved to Charleston, South Carolina, to open a forensic practice with her niece Lucy and Pete Marino, she thought she was starting an ideal life.

However, she soon comes into conflict with local politicians, who try to sabotage her project. Then begins a series of violent deaths: a ritual murder, an abused child, a tennis player found mutilated in Rome, with no other link between these cases than a certain patient from a prestigious New England psychiatric hospital.

Other names will be added to the Register of the Dead, perhaps even Kay's...