Entering the dark biker underworld, Tempe finds herself pitted against dangerous outlaws and organised crime. Unable to turn to her sparring partner Andrew Ryan for help, she finds herself increasingly vulnerable. In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, and the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything.
Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground.
People, too, burrow in. Dr Temperance Brennan gathers the evidence to confront the terror of a killer out of control. The Times 'Reichs can wield a scalpel with the best. The Author Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciare et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec, and has as a result part based her novels on her vast experience in the area of forensic science where she specialises in bones. At present she is one of only 50 people certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and very few of these are women.