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Temperance Brennan volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
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Temperance Brennan volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Young men -- tourists -- have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact...
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Temperance Brennan volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. For a while, temporarily idle forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night for dinner, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine Monastery where an equally...
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town.
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Temperance Brennan volume 17
Language
English
Description
"Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common--the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
6) A dying fall
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The macabre discovery of a downed WWII plane with the pilot's skeleton still inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery. --Provided by publisher.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 4
Language
English
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When a curator is found murdered, Ruth Galloway and Detective Inspector Nelson track down links between the murder, Aborigine skulls, and a drug-smuggling operation that forces Ruth to question her loyalties.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Forensic archeologist, Dr. Ruth Galloway is back--this time investigating a gruesome WWII war crime"--Provided by publisher.
11) Monday mourning
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Temperance Brennan volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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12) Cross bones
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Temperance Brennan volume 8
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan finds herself in the middle of a controversy over the death of Jesus Christ after she travels to Israel to investigate the origins of a skeleton that may be related to the shooting death in Montreal of an Orthodox Jew involved in the trade of black market antiquities.
14) Devil bones
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Temperance Brennan volume 11
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Temperance Brennan is back and her latest case takes her deep into the world of Voodoo, Santeria, and Witchcraft.
16) Freezing
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Severn House
Language
English
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Introduces forensic anthropologists Jayne Hall and Steelie Lander, who,while running a non-profit missing persons identification resource center, place their lives on the line during an off-the-record case involving the discovery of dumped frozen body parts.
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Temperance Brennan volume 16
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? Tempe soon finds herself at the center of a conspiracy...
18) Bones to ashes
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Temperance Brennan volume 10
Language
English
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Discovering the skeleton of a young girl in the neighborhood of a childhood best friend who had gone missing thirty years earlier, Tempe Brennan investigates suspicions that victim and her friend are one and the same.
19) The stone circle
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 11
Language
English
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DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that's haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person--her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters is dead. Or is he? The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson,...
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Temperance Brennan volume 15
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.
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