Speaking in bones : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0434021202
- ISBN: 9780434021208
- ISBN: 0345544048 (cloth)
- ISBN: 9780345544049 (cloth)
- ISBN: 0345544048 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780345544049 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780345544049
- ISBN: 0345544048
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Physical Description:
302 pages ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, [2015]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | "Hazel 'Lucky' Strike -- a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases -- comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of eighteen-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager's remains are gathering dust in Temperance Brennan's lab. Brennan has doubts about working with a self-styled websleuth, but when the evidence seems to add up, Brennan's next stop is the treacherous backwoods where the chilling recording (and maybe Cora Teague's bones) were discovered" -- Dust jacket flap. |
Summary, etc.: | For every case Temperence Brennan has solved, there remain innumerable unidentified bodies in her lab. Information on some of these is available online, where amateur sleuths sometimes take a stab at solving cases. One day, Tempe gets a call from Hazel "Lucky" Strike, a web sleuth who believes she's successfully connected a body in Tempe's lab to a missing persons report on an eighteen-year-old named Cora Teague. Since the bones in her lab do seem to match Cora's medical records, Tempe looks into the case, returning to the spot where the bones were originally found. What seems at first to be an isolated tragedy takes on a more sinister cast as Tempe uncovers two more sets of bones nearby. When she then learns that the area is known as a viewing point for a famous unexplained light phenomenon with significance for a local cult, Tempe's suspicious turn to murder by ritual sacrifice -- a theory thrown into question when Hazel herself turns up dead. Still reeling from her mother's diagnosis and the shock of Andrew Ryan's potentially life-change proposal, Tempe races to solve the murders before the body count climbs further. |
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Subject: | Missing persons Investigation Fiction Women forensic anthropologists Fiction Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character) Fiction |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Southbury Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Southbury Public Library | REICHS/MYS (Text) | 34019133411009 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |