A novella collection of four stories in the Temperance Brennan forensic mystery series and revolving around a forensic anthropologist, who investigates human remains at crime scenes where the flesh is too degraded for a coroner to obtain evidence (victims of arson, mutilation, advanced decomposition, etc.)
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number.
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose autopsy of a young girl killed in a hit-and-run in North Carolina, triggers a look into human trafficking.
It’s a challenge Lucky Strike presents to Tempe. An audio file so disturbing it fires Tempe into pushing a cold case, bones found by Mort, a hunter’s dog.
Two child murders, thousands of miles apart, share a common killer. When another child is taken, the reign of terror promises to continue—unless Brennan can stop a psychopath.
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan works a case of infanticide, murder, and corruption, set in the high-stakes, high-danger world of diamond mining.
FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. A body that the FBI confiscates and destroys. Then a young engineer alerts Tempe. Soon after, the engineer’s body is found crushed.