From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the âcleverly plotted and expertly maintained seriesâ (The New York Times Book Review).
Her life is devoted to justiceâeven for those she never knew.
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming patternâand she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to herâher best friend and her own daughterâin mortal dangerâŠ
âA genius at building suspenseâ (Daily News, New York), Kathy Reichsâs Temperance Brennan books are ripe with intricate settings and memorable charactersâ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).