Grave Secrets, 5 - (Temperance Brennan Novel) by Kathy Reichs (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan assists in the excavation of 20-year-old mass grave of massacre victims in a Guatemalan village. Now as she pieces together the past, Tempe becomes entangled in the cases of four privileged young women who suddenly vanish from Guatemala City.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>As fresh and shocking as today's headlines, a bone-chilling Tempe Brennan novel of international black marketeering in fetal tissue, decades old mass murder, and contemporary homicide from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.</b> <p/>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." <p/>Forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in North Carolina and Montreal, Tempe is in Guatemala for a month's service to help some families identify and bury their dead. She digs in a cold, damp pit where she finds a hair clip, a fragment of cloth, a tiny sneaker. Her trowel touches something hard: the hip of a child no more than two years old. <p/>It's heartbreaking work. Something savage happened here twenty years ago. The violence continues today. The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman's screams. Then there is silence. Dead silence. <p/>With this new violence, everything changes, both for the team and for Tempe, who's asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian ambassador's daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and Tempe unfortunately knows septic tanks. <p/>Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolomé Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who may have more than just professional reasons to join her on the case, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala's borders. The stakes are huge. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices. <p/>From cutting-edge science in the lab, where Tempe studies fetal bones and cat hair DNA, to a chilling encounter in a lonely morgue, <i>Grave Secrets</i> is powerful, page-turning entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Chilling. -- <i>People</i><br><br>Powerful . . . a page-turner. -- <i>The Hartford Courant</i> (CT)<br><br>The medical details . . . [are] vivid and fascinating. -- <i>Booklist</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kathy Reichs's first novel <i>Déjà Dead</i>, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. <i> Cold, Cold Bones</i> is Kathy's twenty-first entry in her series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television's longest running scripted drama, <i>Bones</i>, which is based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal, Québec. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs.
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