A Conspiracy of Bones.
It’s sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she’s anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her.
An identified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions.
To win answers to the others, including the man’s identity, she must go rogue, working mostly outside the system. That’s because Tempe’s new boss holds a fierce grudge against her and is determined to keep her out of the case. Tempe bulls forward anyway, even as she begins questioning her instincts. But the clues she discovers are disturbing and confusing. Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? A target for assassination by the government? And why was he carrying the name of a child missing for almost a decade?
With help from a number of law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the always-ready-with-a-smart-quip, ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth.
But the more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes…
Sobre el Autor:
Kathleen Joan Toelle Reichs (1950 – Actualidad) es una escritora estadounidense famosa por sus libros basados en el personaje de Temperance Brennan, adaptados en la serie de televisión Bones, de fama mundial, donde incluso hizo una aparición en un capítulo.
Reichs es antropóloga forense y profesora de su especialidad en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte, aunque actualmente disfruta de una excedencia, y colabora con diversas instituciones médico-legales de Estados Unidos y Canadá además de dar charlas por todo el mundo.
Su primera novela, Testigos del silencio, recibió el premio Arthur Ellis Edwards a la mejor escritora novel y su obra ha sido traducida a más de 30 idiomas. Estas novelas están basadas en casos reales investigados por ella misma como antropóloga forense, aunque hay diferencias entre los personajes y la vida real.
