“She’s Pilgrim Hospital’s most unusual patient, and on this Saturday night, a media circus is gathered to record every minute of her visit to the X-ray department. Crammed into the small CT scan room are reporters, TV cameras, a select group of medical technicians – and forensic pathologist Maura Isles.
Maura is there because the patient being scanned tonight isn’t alive. She’s probably been dead for centuries. She is, in fact, a mummy.
As the CT scan proceeds, everyone in the room leans in close – and gasps in horror as an image of a bullet is revealed. Maura declares it a possible homicide case and calls in Detective Jane Rizzoli.
When the preserved body of a second victim is found – and then |
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