copyright 2006; "Inspiration for the Fox TV series Bones, featuring Temperance Brennan"; Scribner publishers, New York; hardbound in black boards with gilt lettering along spine; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
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Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist, called on to solve the toughest cases.
 
To some, the dead are a commodity. For Tempe Brennan, they hold the key to cracking a horrific crime ring.  Among the ancient remains in a Native American burial ground, Tempe discovers a fresh skeleton — and what began as an ordinary teaching stint at an archeology field school in Charleston, South Carolina, fast becomes a heated investigationinto an alarming pattern of homicides. The clues hidden in the bones lead to a street clinic where a monstrous discovery awaits, and Tempe — whose personal life is in upheaval, with two men competing for her — can’t afford any distractions as she pieces together a shattering and terrifying puzzle.