206 Bones

206 Bones anew york time and international bestselling
author by Kathy Reichs There are 206 bones in the human
body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately can
read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them
to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens
with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that
she is in some kind of very small very dark very cold
enclosed space. She is bound hands to feet. Who wants
Tempe dead or at least out of the way and why? Tempe
begins slowly to reconstruct… Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan
had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a
missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue.
Suddenly Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy —
and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call.
Within hours the one man with information about the call
was dead. Back in Montreal the corpse of a second elderly
woman was found in the woods and then a third. Seamlessly
weaving between Tempes present-tense terror as shes held
captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered
women Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would
occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab.
The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this
complex riveting tale unfolds. Reichs is writing at the
top of her game.