Temperance Brennan mysteries

When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.

It is pitch black, and Tempe is trapped in a frigid, tiny space. Trying to piece things together, she remembers accompanying the bones of a wealthy heiress to the Chicago morgue. A phone call was made, and Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy. The, two more women's bodies were discovered. But how did she end up imprisoned? Confused and scared, she knows only that someone, possibly a colleague, is hell-bent on destroying her.

"Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones --returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs's trademark blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" ( Entertainment Weekly ) and breathless suspense have made her books major bestsellers worldwide. Now, she delivers the fourteenth thriller in a...

"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...

"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...

"On the way to Isle of Palms off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call about two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. The details are identical to those of an unsolved case Tempe handled in Quebec years earlier. She travels to Montreal to gather evidence, while health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the...

Young men-tourists-have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact that...