#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another
"outstanding" book (Publishers Weekly) in her "cleverly plotted" (The
New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit
FOX television series Bones.
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know
them intimately, can use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end.
When Tempe finds herself regaining consciousness in some kind of very
small, very dark, very cold enclosed space--bound, hands to feet--Tempe
begins slowly to reconstruct...
Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered
remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue.
Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy--and the case.
Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the
woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's
present-tense terror as she's held captive and her memory of the cases
of these murdered women, Reichs reveals the incredible devastation that
would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The
chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting
tale unfolds, proving once again, that Reichs is the dominant talent in
forensic mystery writing.