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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...
23) Grave secrets
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 5
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English
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Investigating a massacre that took place in Guatemala in 1982, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers that those events are linked to the disappearance of four girls from Guatemala City, as well as the murder of a human rights investigator.
Dr. Temperance Brennan is asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on a case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months-- one the Canadian ambassador's...
24) Monday mourning
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
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English
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Receiving mysterious clues about a shooting murder in Montreal, Tempe Brennan wonders if the victim may have been a Jewish black market antiquities trader and embarks on a dangerous investigation in Israel
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Series
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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Elizabeth pushes up her wedding date to Cameron Dawson when she learns that he has been invited to a garden party whose illustrious guest list includes none other than the Queen of England. As Elizabeth frantically prepares to tie the knot, she finds herself unraveling a local mystery.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
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English
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Forensic anthropologist Tempe 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.
30) Bones to ashes
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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31) 206 bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
32) Spider bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
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English
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When Temperance Brennan is called to investigate the death of a man who drowned in the midst of a bizarre sex act, she knows the case will be anything but ordinary. However, when the victim is identified as John Lowery, a man who was reportedly killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam over 40 years ago, Tempe sets off to Hawaii to find some answers. There, Tempe is given another case when the body of a young boy washes ashore and appears to be the...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan is back and her latest case takes her deep into the world of Voodoo, Santeria, and Witchcraft.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number. Its sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following...
35) Death du jour
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death...
37) Déjà dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Someone is murdering and dismembering women in Montreal, and forensic anthropologist Temperance "Tempe" Brennan, a middle-aged North Carolina transplant, is having a tough time convincing the Canadian version of the old boy network that the grizzly slayings are the work of a single killer. Since no one believes her theories, Tempe is left pretty much on her own to track the killer, following a trail that leads through demimondes of prostitution, religion...
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Publisher
Simon And Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called to the scene. Animal remains? Or could this be related to bone fragments from a human male found nearby? To Tempe's surprise, the decomposed body indicates the person was a female young adult. The profile fits the description of a missing graduate student named Edith Blankenship. Was Blankenship murdered? If...
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Montlake
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When human remains are found, reopening a decades-old case, a group of friends, highly respected, affluent members of their communities, begins to fracture as homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Queen get closer to the truthof what happened on an autumn night 47 years ago.
''When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing...
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