01 - Deja Dead
When the bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned
monastery, Dr Temperance Brennan of the Laboratoire de Medecine Legale in
Montreal is convinced that a serial killer is at work. The detective in
charge of the case disagrees with her, but he is forced to revise his
opinion.
02 - Death Du Jour
March in Montreal: It is a bitterly cold night and in the grounds of an
old church forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully.
She is there to exhume the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood. But
the body has been moved to an unmarked grave in a far corner of the
cemetery. What will Tempe discover when the frozen ground finally yields
to her tools?Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific
arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no
motive, no explanation.From the charred remains of the arson, to a trail
of sinister cult activity and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm,
Tempe gathers her evidence and confronts the terror of a killer out of
control. 'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many
such days would there be?'
03 - Deadly Decisions
Temperance, forensic anthropologist for the state of Quebec, is recalled
from a course for a gruesome duty. Biker war is raging in Quebec and two
of its foot soldiers have blown themselves up. She is the person best
qualified to make sense of what remains.
04 - Fatal Voyage
When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan
is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state,
she serves on the region's disaster response team. The task that confronts
her is a sad and sickening one. Putting normal life on hold, she and her
colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims. A chance discovery
concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site. A deserted
house close by is buried so deep in the woods that locals claim to know
nothing of its existence. And her examination of the foot throws up more
questions than it answers. Before she can make any progress Tempe's
professional standing is threatened. But she fears that, air tragedy aside,
another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a
conspiracy of silence, Tempe vows to bring justice for her mystery victim.
05 - Grave Secrets
Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners
in Montreal and North Carolina, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala,
where her skills will be tested to the limit. It was a summer morning in 1982
when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and
children. Families and neighbors refer to their lost members as "the disappeared".
The bodies are said to lie in a mass grave. Tempe brings all her skill to uncover
the savagery of the past. But something savage is happening today. Four girls are
missing from Guatemala City, including the daughter of a high-ranking government
official. When a young archaeologist is brutally murdered, Tempe realizes that
she may be the next victim in a web of intrigue that connects the historical and
contemporary murders.
06 - Bare Bones
It's a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte, North Carolina and
Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years. She's
almost out the door when the bones start appearing. First there's the newborn
skeleton found in a wood stove. Who put the baby there? The mother, hardly more
than a child herself, has disappeared. Next, a small plane flies into a rock
face on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition,
their bodies covered with a strange black substance. What could it be? What
sinister mission might the two have been on? Most puzzling is a cache of bones
unearthed in a remote corner of the county. Some animal, some human, the bones
are enough to keep Tempe busy for a long time. All the pieces of the mystery
seem to lead back to an isolated farm. But what happened there and who will be
the next victim? Tempe must find the answers by teasing secrets from the bones -
if only she can decipher them in time... A superb new thriller from the number
one bestselling author of Grave Secrets.
07 - Monday Mourning
The freezing Montreal winter turns even colder when blue-eyed cop Andrew Ryan is
too busy mounting a sting operation and squiring a fetching youngster around to
pay much attention to the forensic anthropologist who's his sometime squeeze.
Temperance Brennan can't even turn to her chum Anne for much solace because Anne,
on a leave of absence from her marriage, is needy herself. Work is no consolation
either, since Tempe is facing a riddle she can't solve. How old are the girls'
bones discovered under a pizza shop? Maybe a hundred years, maybe less. Homicide
cops Claudel and Charbonneau have more pressing matters to deal with-that sting,
for instance. So Tempe goes a-hunting, determined to identify whose bones they
are and what their history was. She uncovers a possible link to Montreal Mafioso
Nick "The Knife" Cataneo and even stronger ties to a smarmy pawnbroker and his
terrified girlfriend. But it is 21st-century forensic wizardry that leads Tempe
to stomach-churning confrontations in which many are revealed to have been
tortured, one more dies, Anne is concussed, and Tempe herself is practically
incinerated. Knowledgeable and brave enough to outgore Patricia Cornwell, Reichs
(Bare Bones, 2003, etc.) still can't balance her love of science-think carbon-
dating for dummies-with her passion for Grand Guignol. Some sassy repartee, but
mostly lots and lots of bodies.
08 - Cross Bones
The latest gripping thriller from world class forensic anthropologist, Kathy
Reichs, bestselling author of Bare Bones and Monday Mourning Temperance Brennan
has a mystifying new case in this eighth novel from New York Times bestselling
author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Tempe is called in
to interpret the wounds of a man who was shot in the head, but while she tries
to make sense of the fracture patterning, an unknown man slips her a photograph
of a skeleton, telling her it holds the answer to the victim's death. Detective
Andrew Ryan is also on the case and, as his relationship with Tempe heats up,
together they try to figure out who this orthodox Jew in the Israeli "import
business" really was. Was he involved in the black market trade in antiquities?
And what is the significance of the photo? With the help of Jacob Drum,
a biblical archaeologist and old friend from the University of North Carolina,
Tempe follows the trail of clues all the way to Israel. In the Holy Land, she
learns of a strange ossuary at Masada, a shroud, and a tomb that may have held
the remains of Jesus's family. But the further she probes into the identity of
the ancient skeleton, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger.
09 - Break No Bones
It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr Temperance
Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees,
a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body
is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach... The skeleton is
articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue;
the remains are encased in rotted fabric and topped by wisps of pale, blond
hair - a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Dental remains and skeletal
gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is a middle-aged white male -
but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does the
unusual vertical hairline fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae signify?
While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is
thrown into turmoil. When a bullet - intended, perhaps, for her - puts Tempe's
estranged husband Pete in hospital, her unexpectedly emotional response
complicates her on-off relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan... But before
long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into
a shocking and chilling investigation, set to challenge her entire view of
humanity.
10 - Bones to Ashes
Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters...
'Preliminary diagnosis?' 'Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction
on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process?
Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the
above? I don't have a diagnosis...' 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 Yves Bradette
is being evasive, 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 Tempe's case; she's overwhelmed with more urgent
work in the lab...But the nagging in her subconscious won't let up. A memory
triggered, deep in her hindbrain - the disappearance of a childhood friend;
no warning, no explanation...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?
11 - Devil Bones
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about,
and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones,
and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious
ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage
girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy
is found by a man walking his dog.
Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the
skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy's
body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen
vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans. They begin a witch hunt,
intent on seeking revenge.
12 - 206 Bones
Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains
of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe
was accused of mishandling the autopsy -- and the case. Someone made an
incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about
the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman
was found in the woods, and then a third.
13 - Spider 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 Hemmingford,
Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre
sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how
could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in
Canada?
Tempe sets off for the answer, exhuming Lowery's grave in North Carolina
and taking the remains to Hawaii for reanalysis - to the headquarters of
JPAC, the U.S. military's Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command, which strives
to recover Americans who have died in past conflicts. In Hawaii, Tempe is
joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how 'ex' is he?)
and by her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. Soon
another set of remains is located, with Lowery's dog tags tangled among
them. Three bodies - all identified as Lowery.
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