206 Bones

From Dé jà Dead to Break No Bones, fans just can’t get enough of New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs and forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. Now Reichs, a producer of Bones, the hit TV drama inspired by her life and work, returns with her 12th novel featuring Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan. There are 206 bones in the adult human body. Tempe knows every one of them. What she doesn’t know is how she wound up unconscious in a small, dark, cold enclosed space. Bound hands to feet, in pain from an injury to her ankle, she begins, slowly, to remember.… Tempe and Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case; someone has made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call is dead, and Tempe is left, literally, in the dark. Who wants Tempe dead—or at least out of the way—and why? Seamlessly weaving between the case of the heiress and a new investigation that may or may not be related, Reichs intensifies the chemistry between Tempe and Ryan while delivering one of her tightest, most twisted mysteries yet.