Bones to Ashes - Couverture souple

Reichs, Kathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416589112 ISBN 13 : 9781416589112

Editeur : Pocket Books, 2008

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check.

Coroner Jean Bradette is insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something. It's not even Tempe's case, but the nagging in her subconscious won't let up. A memory triggered - the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation...

Detective Andrew Ryan is working a series of parallel cases, and requires Tempe's forensic expertise. Three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all early-to-mid teens. Could there be a serial killer at work? Or is Tempe over-reacting, making connections where none exist?

Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn't have predicted where this case would lead, or the horrors it would eventually uncover. Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

Linda Emond's many television appearances include Law & Order and The Sopranos. Stage credits include Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and a Tony-nominated performance in Life (x) 3. She has appeared in several films including The Dying Gaul and has worked extensively as a narrator for television and audiobooks.

Présentation de l'éditeur

New York Times bestselling author, Kathy Reichs’s Bones to Ashes is now available on audio for only $14.99!

Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist, called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl’s skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Evangeline, Tempe’s childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person in Tempe’s eight-year old world. When Evangeline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was “dangerous.”

Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. Meanwhile, Tempe’s beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Two girls dead. Three missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.

Bones to Ashes is a gripping, sophisticated thriller starring the protagonist who is “the lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta” (USA TODAY).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416589112
• ISBN 13: 9781416589112
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400