No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than
Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan
series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic
anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark
secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly
what to do—test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is
another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer
police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the
matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its
head.
Hazel “Lucky” Strike—a strident amateur
detective who mines the Internet for cold cases—comes to
Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held
prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is
that of eighteen-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more
than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the
teenager’s remains are gathering dust in Temperance
Brennan’s lab.
Brennan has doubts about
working with a self-styled websleuth. But when the evidence
seems to add up, Brennan’s next stop is the treacherous
backwoods where the chilling recording (and maybe Cora
Teague’s bones) were discovered. Her forensic field trip
only turns up more disturbing questions—along with gruesome
proof of more untimely deaths.
While local
legends of eerie nocturnal phenomena and sinister satanic
cults abound, it’s a zealous and secretive religious sect
that has Brennan spooked and struggling to separate the
saints from the sinners. But there’s nothing, including fire
and brimstone, that can distract her from digging up the
truth and taking down a killer—even as Brennan finds herself
in a place where angels fear to tread, devils demand their
due, and she may be damned no matter what.
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