Book description
FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach
from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack.
Forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan must find answers before
thousands arrive for the year's big race. But before she can carry out
a proper examination, the FBI mysteriously confiscate and destroy the body.
It's a dead end.
Until a young engineer alerts Tempe to the disappearance of a couple
twelve years earlier - and a deadly conspiracy unravels.
Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic
Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory
Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a
professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. Her first book,
Déjà Dead,
catapulted her to fame when it became a
New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first
novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the
most recent include
Bones Are Forever
,
Flash and Bones
and
206 bones
.
