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Devil Bones
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Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
When a careless plumber accidentally knocks through a wall, he is horrified by what he uncovers. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Fighting her claustrophobia, and the unmistakeable sweet, fetid odour of rotting flesh, Tempe descends the precariously steep, makeshift wooden steps. What awaits her below is a ritualistic display: slain chickens and a goat - and a skull, ghostly pale, rests on a pedestal, the lower jaw missing, the empty orbits starring back at her. The forehead is darkened by an irregular stain the exact red-brown of dried blood, and lined with remnants of desiccated tissue. Two cauldrons stand nearby, beads and antlers suspended overhead. Age, race and sex indicators confirm the skull as that of a young, black female - but how did she die, and when? Then, just as Tempe is working to determine the post-mortem interval, another body is uncovered. The corpse is headless, the torso is carved with Satanic symbols. Could there be a connection? Must Tempe face the sickening possibility that Devil-worshippers are sacrificing human victims?
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Kathy Reichs serves as forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.
Fellow novelist KERRY REICHS on KATHY REICHS
When speaking of writers that have most influenced me, it’s safe to
begin at the beginning. My mother Kathy Reichs has written eleven
London Times best selling books and fostered the television drama Bones.
I am incredibly proud of her talents, and her pride in mine has
sweetened my success. My defection from Lawyer Camp (my father and
brother are lawyers) to Writer Camp was heralded with joyous open arms
by my mother, and the best part is enjoying it together. We don’t
agree on everything, and we write about vastly different subject
materials. But some day I may just cave in to her pestering that I
“put a dead body” in one of my books so we can write something
together! If you haven’t already, try her latest book, Devil Bones.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on TEMPERANCE BRENNAN...
Created by Kathy Reichs, Tempe Brennan is a
forensic anthropologist who shares her time between North Carolina and
Montreal, and has now appeared in almost ten novels where her medical
examinations of bones and other sinister discoveries always send her on
a trail of murder, peril and grief. Her latest outing is in 206 BONES.
Temperance Brennan series: 1. Deja Dead 2. Death Du Jour 3. Deadly Decisions 4. Fatal Voyage 5. Grave Secrets 6. Bare Bones 7. Monday Mourning 8. Cross Bones 9. Break No Bones 10. Bones to Ashes 11. Devil Bones 12. 206 Bones
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