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new York Times Bestselling Author Tess Gerritsen Knows How To Expertly Dissect A Brilliantly Suspenseful Story, All The While Keeping Fascinated Readers Riveted To Her Side. By Turns Darkly Enthralling And Relentlessly Surprising, The Keepsake Showcases An Author At The Peak Of Her Storytelling Powers. for Untold Years, The Perfectly Preserved Mummy Had Lain Forgotten In The Dusty Basement Of Boston's Crispin Museum. Now Its Sudden Rediscovery By Museum Staff Is Both A Major Coup And An Attention-grabbing Mystery. Dubbed Madam X, The Mummy-to All Appearances, An Ancient Egyptian Artifact-seems A Ghoulish Godsend For The Financially Struggling Institution. But Medical Examiner Maura Isles Soon Discovers A Macabre Message Hidden Within The Corpse-horrifying Proof That This Centuries-old Relic Is Instead A Modern-day Murder Victim. to Maura And Boston Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli, The Forensic Evidence Is... publishers Weekly bestseller Gerritsen's At Times Lackluster Series Heroines Prove They Can Shine In Her Solid Seventh Thriller To Feature Det. Jane Rizzoli And Dr. Maura Isles (after the Mephisto Club). When Medical Examiner Isles Studies An X-ray Scan Of Madame X, Which Everyone Assumes Is A Newly Discovered Egyptian Mummy, At Boston's Crispin Museum, She Realizes The Mummy Isn't A Priceless Artifact But A Recent Murder Victim, Gruesomely Preserved. Rizzoli Focuses The Police Investigation On Dr. Josephine Pulcillo, A Young Archeologist Recently Hired By The Museum Who May Have Something To Hide. More Victims Soon Turn Up, Including A tsantsa(shrunken Head) In A Hidden Museum Chamber And A Corpse Resembling A Well-preserved Bog Body In Pulcillo's Car. After Pulcillo Disappears, Rizzoli And Isles Must Scramble To Find Her Before She Becomes Another Trophy In The Killer's Growing Collection. As Usual, Gerritsen Delivers An Intricate Plot That Will Keep Readers Guessing. (sept.) copyright © Reed Busi