A
conspiracy of bones
Reichs, Kathy
1950-
creator
author.
text
Thrillers (Fiction).
Detective and mystery stories.
xna
2020
monographic
eng
342 pages ; 24 cm.
It’s sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she’s anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An unidentified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions. To win answers to the others, including the man’s identity, she must go rogue, working mostly outside the system. That’s because Tempe’s new boss holds a fierce grudge against her and is determined to keep her out of the case. Tempe bulls forward anyway, even as she begins questioning her instincts. But the clues she discovers are disturbing and confusing. Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? A target for assassination by the government? And why was he carrying the name of a child missing for almost a decade? With help from a number of law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the always-ready-with-a-smart-quip, ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth. But the more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes.
Kathy Reichs.
Women forensic anthropologists
Fiction
Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character)
Fiction
Murder
Investigation
Fiction
Dead
Identification
Fiction
Charlotte (N.C.)
Fiction
813.6
Temperance Brennan series ; book 19
Reichs, Kathy
1950-
author.
9781760853983
1760853984
200207
20220711114400.0
781509