Format: Hardcover; Copyright Date: 2009; Publisher: Scribner; ISBN: 9780743294393; List Price: $26.99; Series: Temperance Brennan (#12); Length: 308 pages. Condition: Like New. From private collection, NOT a former library copy. Jacket, cover, binding and pages are all still in excellent shape. Practically perfect! Same cover design as that shown here.

Synopsis:
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 Temperance 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 Temperance dead, or at least out of the way--and why? She begins slowly to reconstruct... Temperance and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Temperance was accused of mishandling both the autopsy and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Temperance's present-tense terror as she's held captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Temperance and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds. Reichs is writing at the top of her game.

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