Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs's twenty-first novel is "her masterpiece -- smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing" (Michael Connelly) -- and features forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who 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 daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.

There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?

Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit -- and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe's Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.

Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on... and then her daughter disappears.

At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge -- one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones. A Temperance Brennan Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781668026557(March, 2024), 416 p., $10.99.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs's twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who 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 daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.

There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?

Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit -- and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe's Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.

Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on... and then her daughter disappears.

At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge -- one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones. A Temperance Brennan Novel. Scribner, ISBN: 9781982190033 (June, 2023), 352 p., $17.99.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones (UK 2023)

From the Publisher:
In a profession like this, you're bound to make enemies...
An eye...

It all starts when Dr Temperance Brennan finds a box on her porch. Inside is a fresh human eyeball with GPS coordinates etched into it. They lead her to a macabre discovery in a Benedictine Monastery, and soon after she discovers a mummified corpse in a state park.

...for an eye

There seems to be no pattern to these killings, except that each mimics a killing connected to something a younger Tempe experienced, or barely escaped. Someone is targeting her, and she needs to figure out why before they strike again.

And then her daughter Katy disappears.

Someone is playing a dangerous game with Tempe.
And they won't stop until they have taken everything from her...

Electrifying, heart-stopping and compulsive, this is Tempe's most personal and dangerous case yet...

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones. A Temperance Brennan Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781398510814 (March, 2023), 352 p., £8.99.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones (UK 2022)

From the Publisher:
In a profession like this, you're bound to make enemies...
It all starts when Dr Temperance Brennan finds a box on her porch. Inside is a fresh human eyeball with GPS coordinates etched into it. They lead her to a macabre discovery in a Benedictine Monastery, and soon after she discovers a mummified corpse in a state park.

There seems to be no pattern to these killings, except that each mimics a killing connected to something a younger Tempe experienced, or barely escaped. Someone is targeting her, and she needs to figure out why before they strike again.

And then her daughter Katy disappears.

Someone is playing a dangerous game with Tempe.
And they won't stop until they have taken everything from her...

Electrifying, heart-stopping and compulsive, this is Tempe's most personal and dangerous case yet...

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones. A Temperance Brennan Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781398510784 (July, 2022), 352 p., £20.00, eBook £9.99.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones (USA 2022)

From the Publisher:
#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs's twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who 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 daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.

There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?

Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit -- and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe's Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.

Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on... and then her daughter disappears.

At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge -- one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.

Kathy Reichs: Cold, Cold Bones. A Temperance Brennan Novel. Scribner, ISBN: 9781982190026 (July, 2022), 352 p., $27.99, eBook $14.99.