BASED ON THE FOX TELEVISION SERIES BONES CREATED BY HART HANSON NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 。Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery:a plastic bag of skeletal remains--and a chilling note left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody,but Tempe senses the case is far from closed. And as Booth's-Mafia case heats up with violent twists and bloody discoveries, including ties to one of Chicago's most gruesome and notorious killers, Tempe must unravel the story of the bones, where the truth lies buried in order to stay alive.

"The lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta" (USA Today), forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan--the alter ego of New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns in a heart-pounding race to find a killer taunting her with a message in the bones of his victims.

Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery:a plastic bag of skeletal remains--and a chilling note left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody,but Tempe senses the case is far from closed. And as Booth's-Mafia case heats up with violent twists and bloody discoveries, including ties to one of Chicago's most gruesome and notorious killers, Tempe must unravel the story of the bones, where the truth lies buried in order to stay alive.