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It's an offer anthropologist Katharine Sundquist cannot refuse - a chance to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui. But for her 16-year-old son, Michael, the move is the last thing he needs while he struggles with the pain of his father's death. And here, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, a terrible danger waits...

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well where, twenty years later, Dr. Temperance Brennan and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared."

With this opening sentence, Kathy Reichs serves notice that her heroine, Temperance Brennan, is in for one of her scariest, most gruesome adventures yet. As fans of this popular series already know, Tempe is a forensic anthropologist: an expert in the human form (especially bones) who helps solve crimes. The abovementioned infant is only the first in a series of grisly remains, both human and animal, that Tempe must sort through and decode. Meanwhile,...

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates religious-cult murders in a monkey preserve in North Carolina. She learns of a planned massacre in Quebec, where the novel's climax comes during a snow storm. By the author of Déjà Dead.

"Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio, the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man Grant Mason's defences. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead ... A large burial mound sits on Mason family land, and Kate wants permission to excavate. But Grant refuses and tells Kate to stay away from the...

Dr. Temperance Brenna, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, is in the middle of identifying the bones of a nun, dead for over a century, who is now a candidate for sainthood, when she is pulled away to investigate a bigger mystery involving the twisted corpses found at a burning chalet.

"A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she's called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings Day special. But private chef tables and spa days come to an abrupt halt when Jorge's telenovela heartthrob...

Working at a remote national monument site on the Utah-Arizona border, anthropologist Sophia Shepard finds herself in the middle of shady dealings focused on monument land that may soon be opened to energy exploration.