A gripping and explosive thriller from internationally acclaimed
forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy
Reichs, featuring Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan on the
trail of a modern murder and an ancient biblical mystery.
Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic
anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But puzzling damage on the body of a
shooting victim, an Orthodox Jewish man, suggests this is no ordinary
Montreal murder. When a stranger slips Tempe a photograph of a skeleton
unearthed at an archaeological site, Tempe uncovers chilling ties
between the dead man and secrets long buried in the dust of Israel.
Traveling there with Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe plunges into an
international mystery as old as Jesus, and centered on the controversial
discovery of Christ's tomb. Has a mastermind lured her into an elaborate
hoax? If not, Tempe may be on the brink of rewriting two thousand years
of history--if she can survive the foes dead set on burying her.