Scribner
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Featuring: Temperance Brennan
310 pages ISBN: 0743294394 EAN: 9780743294393 Hardcover Add to Wish List
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the
Fox television hit, Bones, returns with a spectacular new
Tempe Brennan novel.
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic
anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them
stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct
every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe
regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some
kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She
is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least
out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct...
Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently
discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the
Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling
the autopsy -- and the case. Someone made an incriminating
phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about
the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second
elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third.
Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's present-tense terror as
she's held captive and her memory of the cases of these
murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation
that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in
the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as
this complex, riveting tale unfolds. Reichs is writing at
the top of her game.
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