**A collection of pulse-pounding tales featuring forensic anthropologist
Temperance Brennan--including the untold story of her first case!
**
The #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the hit Fox series
Bones, Kathy Reichs is renowned for chilling suspense and fascinating
forensic detail. The Bone Collection presents her trademark artistry
in this collection of thrilling short fiction.
In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs's first novel, Déjà Dead, she at
last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In
this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her
from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of
criminal investigation. (It all began with a visit from a pair of
detectives--and a John Doe recovered from an arson scene in a trailer.)
The collection is rounded out with three more stories that take Tempe
from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly
discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the
heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. No matter
where she goes, Tempe's cases make for the most gripping reading.
Praise for Kathy Reichs and the Temperance Brennan series
"Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She's the real
deal."--David Baldacci
"Kathy Reichs writes smart--no, make that brilliant--mysteries that are
as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about
Jack Reacher or Alex Cross."--James Patterson
"Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden."--The New York
Times Book Review
