How long does it take to read Keeping the Dead?
Keeping the Dead by Tess Gerritsen takes about 7 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 404 pages, about 111,100 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Confront your darkest fears in Tess Gerritsen's heart-stopping new thriller featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr Maura Isles. 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 a third - it becomes all too clear that not only is a maniac at large but he is taunting them. And that, unless Maura and Jane can find and stop him, he will soon be adding yet another chilling piece to his monstrous collection
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Boston (mass.), fiction, Forensic pathologists, fiction, Policewomen, fiction, Women detectives
