Devil Bones: A NovelKathy Reichs's eleventh forensic mystery thriller, in which Temperance Brennan heads to Charlotte, North Carolina to solve a demonic plot involving ritual sacrifice before the town's vengeful citizens take matters into their own hands. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a grisly discovery: a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine rests the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate, and a complex and gripping tale unfolds. Nothing is clear--neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy's body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans, and Temperance will need all of her expertise to get to the real culprit first. |
Contents
Section 1 | 9 |
Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 51 |
Section 4 | 67 |
Section 5 | 153 |
Section 6 | 169 |
Section 7 | 193 |
Section 8 | 201 |
Section 11 | 227 |
Section 12 | 243 |
Section 13 | 253 |
Section 14 | 259 |
Section 15 | 275 |
Section 16 | 281 |
Section 17 | 289 |
Section 18 | 297 |
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