Devil Bones - Couverture souple

Reichs, Kathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416584668 ISBN 13 : 9781416584667

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2009

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...

When a careless plumber accidentally knocks through a wall, he is horrified by what he uncovers.

Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Fighting her claustrophobia, and the unmistakeable sweet, fetid odour of rotting flesh, Tempe descends the precariously steep, makeshift wooden steps.

What awaits her below is a ritualistic display: slain chickens and a goat - and a skull, ghostly pale, rests on a pedestal, the lower jaw missing, the empty orbits starring back at her. The forehead is darkened by an irregular stain the exact red-brown of dried blood, and lined with remnants of desiccated tissue. Two cauldrons stand nearby, beads and antlers suspended overhead.

Age, race and sex indicators confirm the skull as that of a young, black female - but how did she die, and when?

Then, just as Tempe is working to determine the post-mortem interval, another body is uncovered. The corpse is headless, the torso is carved with Satanic symbols. Could there be a connection? Must Tempe face the sickening possibility that Devil-worshippers are sacrificing human victims?

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In a house under renovation in Charlotte, North Carolina, a plumber discovers a cellar no one knew about, and some rather grisly remains the severed head of a teenage girl, several decapitated chickens and a couple of cauldrons containing beads, feathers, long bones, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In a river not far away, a torso is found, that of an adolescent boy. Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate and a complex and riveting tale unfolds in this, Kathy Reichs eleventh taut and constantly surprising Temperance Brennan mystery. Nothing is clear, neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Citizen vigilantes want a witch hunt, led by a preacher turned politician, they blame devil worshippers and Wiccans, and they are looking for revenge. Reichs trademark forensic science is more fascinating than ever as Temperance Brennan must reconcile contradictory evidence to discover what happened. Devil Bones, is Reichs at her best.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1416584668
• ISBN 13: 9781416584667
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416