As fresh and shocking as todayâs headlines, a âchillingâ (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to restâfrom New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
They are âthe disappeared,â twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya two decades ago. Leading a team of experts on a meticulous, heartbreaking dig, Tempe Brennan pieces together the violence of the past. But a fresh wave of terror begins when the horrific sounds of a fatal attack on two colleagues come in on a blood-chilling satellite call. Teaming up with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano and Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe quickly becomes enmeshed in the cases of four privileged young women who have vanished from Guatemala Cityâand finds herself caught in deadly territory where power, money, greed, and science converge.