Title: Devil Bones
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 2008
Description: The eleventh gripping Temperance Brennan thriller from world-class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, no.1 bestselling author of Break No Bones and Bones to AshesAn underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Beads and antlers dangle overhead.Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Bony architecture suggests that the skull is that of a young, black female. But how did she die? And when? Then, just as Tempe is working to determine post-mortem interval, another body is discovered: a headless corpse carved with Satanic symbols.As citizen vigilantes, blaming Devil-worshippers, begin a witch-hunt, intent on revenge, Tempe struggles to keep her emotions in check. But the truth she eventually uncovers proves more shocking than even she could have imagined...
Subjects: Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character), Voodooism in fiction, Women forensic anthropologists in fiction, Satanism in fiction, Women forensic anthropologists, Satanism, Voodooism, Fiction, Vodou, Mystery fiction, Temperance Brennan (Fictional character), Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-09-14, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Charlotte (n.c.), fiction, Women anthropologists, fiction, Brennan, temperance (fictitious character), fiction
Places: Charlotte (N.C.)
LC classification: PS3568.E476345 D48 2008b