Keeping the Dead – Tess Gerritsen

When Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is called in to help with the identification of a mummy discovered in the basement of a local museum she’s intrigued at the chance of working on something of historical significance but when the CT scan reveals a bullet in the mummy’s leg it seems that all is not as it first appeared. As Detective Jane Rizzoli starts to investigate a second and finally a third body turns up, also preserved in unusual ways. Can Jane get to the bottom of who is responsible before it’s too late?

The Book of Two Ways – Jodi Picoult

Dawn is a death doula. She spends her days helping people come to terms with their death and preparing them and their loved ones for the inevitable end but when she’s forced to face her own mortality after surviving a plane crash her thoughts turn to her life as an Egyptologist 15 years before and the man she left behind. As her life splits off in two directions she’s forced to choose between the life she’s built herself with her husband and daughter and the man she left all those years before.