Description
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: 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 even she couldn't have predicted the horrors this investigation would eventually uncover. . . . Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?
ISBN:9780099492368
