Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters...
'Preliminary diagnosis?'
'Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process? Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the above? I don't have a diagnosis...'

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check.

Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something...

It's not Tempe's case; she's overwhelmed with more urgent work in the lab... But the nagging in her subconscious won't let up. A memory triggered, deep in her hindbrain - the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation...

Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn't have predicted where this case would lead, or the horrors it would eventually uncover... Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. Three missing persons. Three unidentified bodies. This is Tempe Brennans most personal case yet. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099556596 (September, 2011), 464 p., £7.99

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters...
The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check.

A nagging in her subconscious won't let up. A memory triggered, deep in her hindbrain - the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation...

Detective Andrew Ryan is working a series of parallel cases, and requires Tempe's forensic expertise. Three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all early-to-mid teens... Could Tempe's skeleton be yet another in this tragic line of young victims? Or is she over-reacting, making connections where none exist?

Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn't have predicted where this investigation would lead, or the horrors it would eventually uncover... Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. The New Tempe Brennan Bestseller. Arrow, ISBN: 0099492369 (August, 2008), 310 p., £6.99

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
Delivering forensic revelations guaranteed to "chill to the bone" (Entertainment Weekly), Kathy Reichs plunges Dr. Temperance Brennan into a shattering case from the past: her own past.
As a child, she was told to forget about the missing girl. But some memories don't die...

The discovery of a skeleton in Acadia, Canada, reawakens a traumatic episode for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan: Could the young girl's remains be those of Évangéline Landry, Tempe's friend who disappeared when Tempe was twelve? Exotic, free-spirited, and slightly older, Évangéline enlivened Tempe's summer beach visits... then vanished amid whispers that she was "dangerous." Now, faced with bones scarred with inexplicable lesions, Tempe is consumed with solving a decades-old mystery -- while her lover, detective Andrew Ryan, urgently needs her attention on a wave of teenage abductions and murders. With both Ryan and her ex-husband making surprising future plans, Tempe may soon find that her world has painfully and irrevocably changed once again.

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. Pocket Star Books, ISBN: 1416525653 (June, 2008), 388 p., $7.99.

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes (UK 2007)

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check.

Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest. But it doesn't quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something...

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. The New Tempe Brennan Bestseller. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434014621 (August, 2007), 310 p., £18.99.

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline 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.

Kathy Reichs: Bones to Ashes. A Novel. Scribner, ISBN: 0743294378 (August, 2007), 310 p., $25.95.