Book description
Dr Temperance Brennan and her students are working on a site of
prehistoric graves on an island near Charleston, South Carolina, when
a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach.
The bone is fresh and the remains are still topped by wisps of hair
- it's a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take.
Tempe determines that the deceased is a middle-aged white male - but
who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does an
unusual vertical fracture of one of the vertebrae signify?
Before long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself
drawn deeper into a shocking investigation which will challenge her
entire view of humanity.
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
.
