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_bB66 2007
082 0 0 _aMYS REI
100 1 _aReichs, Kathy
_d(, 1950-)
245 1 0 _aBones to ashes
_c/ Kathy Reichs
250 _a1st Scribner hardcover ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Scribner
_c, 2007.
300 _aviii, 310 p.
_c; 25 cm.
520 _aFrom bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hitBonescomes Kathy Reichs's most compelling mystery yet, pitting Temperance Brennan against an enigma out of her own past. Temperance Brennan,like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on tosolve 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 wasthe most exotic person in Tempe'seight-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. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl? Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four 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 Ashesis a gripping, sophisticated thriller starring the protagonist who is "the lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta" (USAToday).
650 _aBrennan, Temperance (Fictitious character)
_x-Fiction
650 _aWomen forensic anthropologists
_v--Fiction
650 0 _aLeprosy
_x--Patients
_z--Canada
_v--Fiction.
650 _aMissing persons
_v--Fiction
651 0 _aCanada
_x--Fiction
655 7 _aMystery fiction
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