Book description
Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead
bodies as her famous aunt, acclaimed forensic anthropologist, Tempe
Brennan. However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South
Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her knowledge to the
test. Until her and her ragbag group of technophile friends stumble
across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been
missing for over thirty years. The question is, did whoever was
responsible for the girl's death have anything to do with the sick
puppy they rescued from a secret laboratory on the same island?
With the cold-case murder suddenly hot, Tory realises that they are
involved in something fatally dangerous. But events take a turn for
the bizarre when they escape some would-be attackers by using physical
powers more akin to a dog than a human... Could the puppy hold the key
not only to the murder, but also the strange changes that are taking
place in their bodies?
Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief
Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de
Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec.
She divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent
expert witness in criminal trials.
