Don't miss this "whopper" (Publishers Weekly) of a thriller from #1
New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs in her "cleverly
plotted" (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the
inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968--the victim of a Huey crash in
Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later,
Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford,
Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre
sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how
could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in
Canada?
Tempe sets off for the answer, exhuming Lowery's grave in North Carolina
and taking the remains to Hawaii for reanalysis--to the headquarters of
JPAC, the US military's Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command, which strives
to recover Americans who have died in past conflicts. In Hawaii, Tempe
is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how "ex"
is he?) and by her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss.
Soon another set of remains is located, with Lowery's dog tags tangled
among them. Three bodies--all identified as Lowery.
And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu's flamboyant
medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an
adolescent boy found offshore. Was he the victim of a shark attack? Or
something much more sinister?
