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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.
Praise for Speaking in Bones
“Speaking in Bones keeps the suspense high.”—Associated Press
“Temperance’s forensic sleuthing uncovers many secrets, along with a blockbuster psychological surprise.”—The Huffington Post
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June 1, 2015
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan doesn’t think very highly of Hazel Strike and her fellow “websleuths,” amateurs who gather online to try and solve crimes and locate missing persons, in bestseller Reichs’s solid 18th novel featuring Brennan (after 2014’s Bones Never Lie). Hazel is convinced that bones in Brennan’s Mecklenburg County, N.C., lab belong to 18-year-old Cora Teague, who disappeared more than three years earlier. Trouble is, no one officially reported Cora missing. Cora’s parents, who belong to a fringe Pentecostal church, claim Cora left town with a boy. Despite little evidence to support Hazel’s theory, Brennan investigates Cora’s family, as well as the boy Cora supposedly left town with, and uncovers some shocking secrets. With Brennan’s beau, Quebec homicide detective Andrew Ryan, in Canada, local deputy Zeb Ramsey lends a hand in the increasingly bizarre—and dangerous—investigation. Brennan’s on-again/off-again relationship with Ryan brings some welcome romantic interest to this multilayered series. Agent: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, William Morris Endeavor. -
July 1, 2015
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has a tough decision to make. Andrew Ryan, the cop who's occasionally her crime-solving partner, and who was once her lover, has come back into her life and, out of the blue, proposed marriage. Will she, or won't she? Well, she's not sure, and it's hard to concentrate on that potentially life-altering decision when her new case, which is sparked by a visit from an amateur sleuth claiming she's identified some remains that have been in Brennan's lab for a few years, turns unexpectedly complicated. Reichs' latest Brennan novel takes Tempe into the world of religious cults, a realm that other mystery writers have explored to various levels of success. Reichs appears to have done quite a bit of homework; she mostly avoids cliche and stereotyping, building her characters carefully, making sure they feel like real people (even the zealots). Another fine entry in this long-running series.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Reichs will be on the book-convention circuit through the fall, concluding with a guest-of-honor appearance at Bouchercon in Raleigh in October.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.) -
April 1, 2015
Here's a surprise for formidable forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan: an amateur detective named Hazel "Lucky" Strike is convinced that she knows the identity of some cold-case remains in Tempe's laboratory, having found a tape recorder near the spot where the remains were discovered. And Tempe is starting to believe her. Eighteenth in the series.
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