The Bone Collection: Four Novellas (Temperance Brennan)

The Bone Collection: Four Novellas (Temperance Brennan)

<b>A collection of pulse-pounding tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan—including the untold story of her first case!<br></b><br> The #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author behind the hit Fox series <i>Bones, </i>Kathy Reichs is renowned for chilling suspense and fascinating forensic detail. <i>The Bone Collection</i> presents her trademark artistry in this collection of thrilling short fiction.<br>  <br> In <i>First Bones,</i> a prequel to Reichs’s first novel, <i>Déjà Dead</i>, she at last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. (It all began with a visit from a pair of detectives—and a John Doe recovered from an arson scene in a trailer.) The collection is rounded out with three more stories that take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. No matter where she goes, Tempe’s cases make for the most gripping reading.<br>  <br> <b>Praise for Kathy Reichs and the Temperance Brennan series</b><br>  <br> “Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She’s the real deal.”<b>—David Baldacci</b><br>  <br> “Kathy Reichs writes smart—no, make that brilliant—mysteries that are as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher or Alex Cross.”<b>—James Patterson</b><br>  <br> “Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>