num_pages: 384
description: A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start though when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletonsmost likely M?ori tribespeoplewhose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket a M?ori elder gives her a dire The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse. Though Alexa dismisses his words as superstitious they soon come back to haunt her as the idyllic hike takes a sinister turn. First Charlie is aloof and resentful of the time Alexa has spent at work. Then a rock avalanche nearly carries her away as it reveals the skeletal remains of someone who has clearly been stabbed to death. When a fellow hiker goes missing and is later found dead Alexa has all she can do to focus on the science as she investigates two murders while trying not to become the third victim.
language: English
title: The Bone Track
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press