num_pages: 628
description: Present Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. But when a distinguished doctor is found murdered and mutilated on university grounds, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, THE BONE GARDEN deftly traces the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking.From the Compact Disc edition.
language: English
title: The Bone Garden
titlecomplete: The Bone Garden
characters: Norris Marshall, Dr. Maura Isles, Julia Hamill, Oliver Wendell Holmes
genres: Fiction, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 28976
places: Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Random House Large Print