#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her
twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance
Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying
series of events. "This is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp
dialogue, and plenty of suspense" (Booklist).
On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the
South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner.
The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two
decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical
wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an
unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a
growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence.
Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly
alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe
on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn't
register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she
does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark
secret--and willing to do anything to keep it hidden.
An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put and
featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code
is "a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of
fright" (James Patterson).
