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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"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...
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"On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
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English
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Tempe Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, is in Montreal, digging up skeletons in a pizza parlor basement. The homicide detective believes the bones are historic, but Tempe finds them to be recent murders. A detective whom Tempe is looking for as a permanent part of her life is acting mysteriously. As she searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herseld drawn deeper into a web of...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 18
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates what looks to be a typical missing person case, only to find herself digging up bones possibly left by a serial killer, a cult, or perhaps something not entirely of this world.
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Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant--a man with whom Tempe shares a past--to get to the bottom of the sinister case.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.
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Body farm mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
While helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France, Miranda Lovelady, Dr. Bill Brockton's protǧ,̌ makes a discovery that triggers a deadly tug of war between the anthropologists, the Vatican, and a maniacal religious zealot.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2013.
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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"--...
19) Cut to the bone
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
As Governor Bill Clinton and Senator Albert Gore begin their campaign to win the White House in 1992, Dr. Bill Brockton, determined to revolutionize the study of forensics to help law enforcement better solve crime, launches a macabre-research facility that results in a rising body count.
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Eve Duncan novels volume 1
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English
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For forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, the discovery of what seems like an ordinary skull soon draws her into a frightening odyssey of greed, manipulation, and violence.
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