The Bone Code (Temperance Brennan, #20)
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.
On
the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina
coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from
the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has
washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in
plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Chillingly, Tempe
recognizes many details as identical to those of an unsolved case she
handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of
foreboding, she flies to Montreal to gather evidence and convince her
boss Pierre LaManch to reopen the cold case. She also seeks the
advice—and comfort—of her longtime beau Andrew Ryan.
Meanwhile, a
storm of a different type gathers force in South Carolina--health authorities become increasingly
alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads.The citizens
of Charleston are struck by a bacterium that, at its worst, can eat
human flesh. Thousands panic and test themselves for a rare genetic
mutation that may have rendered them vulnerable.
So focused is Tempe
on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t
register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she
does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark
secret—and willing to do anything to keep it hidden. Shockingly,
Tempe eventually discovers that not only are the victims in both grisly
murder cases related, but that the murders and the disease outbreak also
have a common cause.
An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put, and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code is Temperance Brennan’s most astonishing case yet—one that gives new meaning to today’s headlines.
Reviews
“The Bone Code is a brilliant entry in a ground-breaking series and does Temperance Brennan proud. The story has all the elements we’ve come to expect—it’s smart, gripping, and builds to a heart-stopping crescendo. More than twenty years ago, these wonderful novels began paving the way for other writers, especially Canadians like me, to be noticed. I owe Kathy and Tempe a debt of gratitude, not just for helping to make my own writing life possible but for hours of white-knuckle reading.”—Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Devils Are Here
"Kathy Reichs is expert at making science both scary and thrilling, and she's in top form in The Bone Code. The story moves at such a relentless pace I couldn't stop turning the pages!"—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Choose Me
“Over the course of twenty books, Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales grounded in real science, with plots springing from the author's prodigious knowledge and passion for truth and justice. We readers are truly grateful—and looking forward to the next twenty!”—Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus novels
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Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other Temperance Brennan books include Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones, Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie, Speaking in Bones and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection. In addition, Kathy co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code, Exposure, Terminal, and the novella collection Trace Evidence. The series follows the adventures of Temperance Brennan’s great niece, Tory Brennan. Dr. Reichs’ latest novel, Two Nights, was released July 11 and features Sunday Night, a tough-talking, scarred heroine. Dr. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.
From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Dr. Reichs has traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Dr. Reichs is one of only 100 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. She served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Québec.
i love her books and watch all the reruns of bones as i miss the show Bones so much
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