Title: Devil bones
Description: Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. An 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 anthropol- ogist 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: Fiction, Medical examiners (Law), Women forensic anthropologists, Satanism, Human sacrifice, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Brennan, temperance (fictitious character), fiction, Charlotte (n.c.), fiction, Women anthropologists, fiction
Places: Québec
People: Temperance Brennan (Fictitious character)