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The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs is renowned for suspense and fascinating forensic detail. Now she brings that same artistry to her first volume of collected short stories.In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs's very first novel, Déja Dead, she at last reveals how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the gr...

Dr Temperance Brennan spends her life working amongst the decomposed and the skeletal. So the newly-dead body she is called to examine holds little to surprise her.The case takes Tempe to the heart of the American military, where she must examine the remains of anyone with a possible connection to the drowned man.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking. When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows sig...

Ein Knochenjob für die bekannteste Forensikerin der WeltTempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie ...

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is back in this 14th outing by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Reichs--and this time Brennan's hitting the NASCAR circuit to find a killer.

Don't miss this "whopper" (Publishers Weekly) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs in her "cleverly plotted" (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in He...

Cold and alone, bound hands to feet, Tempe Brennan regains consciousness locked in a dark cell - or is she buried alive in a tomb? - and begins to reconstruct the twisted chain of events that led her to this terrifying place. Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had recently accompanied the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and suddenly Tempe is accused of mishandling the autopsy. After an incriminating phone call and anot...

Paperback, adult edition of the first book in Reichs' new series of crossover crime novels. Features the 14 year old niece of Reichs' popular character Tempe Brennan, who starts some investigations of her own when she and a group of friends discover a body in a shallow grave.

Dr Temperance Brennan takes on a case that uncovers horrors she could never have predicted. But her work uncovers horrors she could never have predicted, as what started in the lab quickly becomes her most harrowing, and personal, case yet.

A full week after death, a barely recognisable body is discovered in a closet. 'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the initial assessment, but the victim's relatives are adamant that this was not suicide.Extreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and Dr Temperance Brennan's forensic expertise is required. Even for her, it is virtually impossible to determine the trajectory of the bullet.But just as Tempe is attempting to ma...

Three skeletons are found in a Montreal basement. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. Soon she finds herself drawn ever deeper into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Three women have disappeared, never to return.

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, leads a ragtag band of teenage sci-philes who live on a secluded island off South Carolina. Rescuing a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island exposes them to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.

Perché è esploso sopra Bryson City (North Carolina) il volo 228 della TransSouth con a bordo 88 persone? Perché nelle operazioni di soccorso l'antropologa forense Tempe Brennan rinviene tra i corpi delle vittime un piede umano che non appartiene a nessuno di loro? Perché in quella zona negli ultimi decenni sono scomparse diverse persone anziane senza lasciare alcuna traccia? Perché nei sotterranei di un villino abbandonato vengono rinvenuti nu...

Sesso. Aspetto. Età. Antenati. Storia clinica. Spesso perfino la morte. È tutto scritto nelle ossa e Tempe Brennan, antropologa forense, di certo sa come leggerle. Ma quando gli scavi nell'antico cimitero indiano di Dewee, in South Carolina, riportano inaspettatamente alla luce uno scheletro recente, l'esame al microscopio mostra una serie di indecifrabili, sottilissime scalfitture lungo la colonna. Il mistero si complica quando un nuovo corpo...

Il cadavere di un uomo colpito alla testa viene ritrovato in uno sgabuzzino, dove è rimasto intrappolato per giorni. Mentre l'antropologa forense Tempe Brennan cerca di trovare una risposta alle ferite e fratture, a prima vista inspiegabili, riportate dalla vittima, qualcuno le invia la fotografia di un antico scheletro. A detta dello sconosciuto, la foto conterrebbe la chiave per risolvere il caso e incastrare il colpevole. Intanto, un numero...

Si dice che il diavolo sia nei dettagli. E nessuno è più sensibile ai dettagli di Tempe Brennan, che per mestiere studia le ossa dei morti a caccia di particolari rivelatori: dell'età, del sesso, della fisionomia di una vittima, dell'epoca e delle cause della morte. Quando tracce di un macabro rito pagano affiorano nello scantinato di una casa in corso di ristrutturazione a Charlotte, North Carolina, Tempe è chiamata a dare il suo contributo a...

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan assists in the excavation of 20-year-old mass grave of massacre victims in a Guatemalan village. Now as she pieces together the past, Tempe becomes entangled in the cases of four privileged young women who suddenly vanish from Guatemala City.

The 14th Temperance Brennan thriller from international bestselling author, and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. In the run up to the biggest NASCAR raceweek of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in North Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened asphalt with a human hand poking through the top. But before she can discover anything, the FBI confisc...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking.When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs...

Reichs, bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit "Bones, " accelerates the suspense in NASCAR country, where Dr. Temperance Brennan reignites a stalled federal case with explosive forensic clues--to murder.