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Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 16
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"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"--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
"Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common--the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 18
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An identified corpse...
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Returning from maternity leave to investigate recently discovered human bones on a remote beach, Dr. Ruth Galloway reluctantly partners with her baby's married father, DCI Harry Nelson, in a case involving a World War II crime.
12) Sick of shadows
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb's widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson.
When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter. Thank goodness, Eileen's cousin Elizabeth MacPherson comes early for support. Unfortunately, Elizabeth also has some detecting to do, as a dead body is found, and none of the wedding party is above suspicion....
"A...
When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter. Thank goodness, Eileen's cousin Elizabeth MacPherson comes early for support. Unfortunately, Elizabeth also has some detecting to do, as a dead body is found, and none of the wedding party is above suspicion....
"A...
14) Cold, cold bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan novel volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases."--
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her...
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
vi, 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
16) 206 bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan regains consciousness to discover herself bound and trapped in a small enclosed space before remembering an autopsy case that resulted in a murder and an attempt on her life.
17) Devil bones
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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...
18) The ghost fields
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 7
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The unsettling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside inside leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets.
19) The dark angel
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway Mystery volume 10
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway--described by Louise Penny as "a captivating amateur sleuth"--and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones"--
20) Paying the piper
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall & Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
211 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth has a plan for how she and her boyfriend Cameron can spend the summer together in Scotland. While Cameron researches the migratory patterns of seals, Elizabeth will join an archaeological dig on the nearby island of Banrigh. But Elizabeth's plans don't include a devastating plague which starts killing off her fellow crew members.