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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
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Following the worldwide raves for her recent "Bare Bones," Kathy Reichs returns with a riveting new Tempest Bledsoe novel--filled with all the forensic details that readers love. On a trip to Montreal, Tempe recovers three skeletons from shallow graves in the basement of a pizza parlor.
2) 206 Bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
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There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct......
3) Fatal voyage
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
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Tempe hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification.
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c2006
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"At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her...
5) Cross bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
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"When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her it is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, and one that could lead to the rewriting of two thousand years of religious history."...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
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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.
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SUMMARY: An historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian War, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N. H., forced to march through the wilderness, and sold to the French in Montreal, where they are held for ransom.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Investigating two murders, the first of a nine-year-old Montreal girl and the second of a North Carolina teenager, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan delves into the world of motorcycle gangs.
11) Ice lake
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Emile Cinq-Mars mysteries volume 2
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[2001]
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A woman discovers a frozen corpse under the ice in her fishing shack, coincidentally, on the same lake where Detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying an afternoon of ice fishing with his partner just a few shacks away. Lured into the fray by an anonymous phone call as deaths begin to mount all over the East Coast, Cinq-Mars investigates the icy murder with ominous links to the international pharmaceutical industry.
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The daughter of a Mohawk mother and French father in 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval finds it is easier to remain neutral in a world that is tearing itself apart. Content to trade with both the French and the British, Catherine is pulled into the fray against her wishes when her British ex- fiance, Samuel Crane, is taken prisoner by her father. Samuel asks her to help him escape, claiming he has information that could help end the war. Peace appeals...
13) The bone code
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. 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...
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2010
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Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers along the way, possibly still followed by a private detective who has pursued her for years. Then her latest lover follows her from New York...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
When an Orthodox jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.
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