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Серийный убийца на городских улицах... Монстр в человеческом обличье, не просто лишающий жизни молодых женщин, но - изощренно уродующий тела своих жертв... Патологоанатом доктор Бреннан не сомневается: эти преступления связаны между собой. Но как убедить в этом полицию? Только сыграть партию "соло" - провести собственное расследование. Пусть даже это поставит под угрозу ее жизнь...

Пожар в маленьком дачном домике унес жизни мужчины, женщины и их детей. Несчастный случай? Это одна из версий полиции. Однако патологоанатом Темпе Бреннан, которая проводит судебно-медицинскую экспертизу, понимает: несчастного случая не было. Было хладнокровное убийство. Но - кто и почему совершил его?! Доктор Бреннан начинает собственное расследование - и еще не знает, что это дело может стоить ей жизни...

В горах Северной Каролины терпит крушение пассажирский авиалайнер, и Темперанс Бреннан в составе следственной группы прибывает на место катастрофы. Общее мнение следствия - самолет взорван террористами. Вроде бы все говорит за это, кроме одной детали: на месте трагедии обнаружены человеческие останки, не принадлежащие ни одной из жертв. Темперанс пытается добраться до истины, но чем ближе она к разгадке, тем жестче противодействие ее поискам буквально со всех сторон, словно все вокруг сговорились помешать ей проникнуть в тайну. Но Темперанс не собирается сдаваться…

Убийство девятилетней девочки. Таинственная гибель двух братьев-близнецов. Бесследное исчезновение девушки, чьи останки впоследствии обнаружены на другом конце страны. Неужели между этими трагедиями есть связь? Патологоанатом Темперанс Бреннан, которая проводит судебно-медицинскую экспертизу, уверена: такая связь существует. Она начинает собственное расследование - и постепенно понимает: за всеми этими смертями стоит банда убийц, вот уже много лет скрывающаяся под вывеской обычного байкерского клуба. Но это открытие может стоить жизни ей самой...

В иссушающей температуре Гватемалы доктор Темперанс Брэннан выкапывает останки двухлетнего ребенка в месте, которое, как говорят, содержит тела двадцати трех женщин и детей. Потрясенная открытием, Темп пытается ужесточиться себя против ужасов, которые она находит.Затем четыре молодых девушки пропадают без вести... Когда был найден скелет в канализационном резервуаре позади захудалого отеля, только Темпе, со своими экспертными знаниями, может выяснить, кем был пострадавший и как он умер. Но ее путь блокируют на каждом шагу. Казалось бы, что некоторые люди предпочтут, чтобы Гватемала 'исчезла'. И другие хотят чтобы пропавших девочек ожидал…

Состоятельный торговец антиквариатом Авраам Феррис покончил с собой? На это указывает все. Однако патологоанатом Темперанс Бреннан не может отказаться от ощущения: перед ней - жертва убийства, стилизованного под суицид. Но кому мог помешать антиквар? Темперанс начинает собственное расследование - и вскоре понимает: убитый был хранителем уникальной археологической реликвии, которая могла бы перевернуть все современные представления о жизни и гибели Иисуса Христа. Однако это открытие может стоить ей жизни…

"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small-plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones… Tempe's daughter's new boyfriend invites them to a picnic - a pig pickin' - in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can't reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter - and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth.

A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. But before Tempe can get to the one man with information, he turns up dead. The heiress isn't the only elderly female to have appeared on Tempe's gurney recently. Back in Montreal, three more women have died, their bodies brutally discarded. Tempe is convinced there must be a link between their deaths and that of the heiress, though the clues don't add up. Is it possible she really has made grave errors, or is some unknown foe…

For every case Temperance Brennan has solved, there remain innumerable unidentified bodies in her lab. Information on some of these is available online, where amateur sleuths sometimes take a stab at solving cases. One day, Tempe gets a call from Hazel “Lucky” Strike, a web sleuth who believes she’s successfully connected a body in Tempe’s lab to a missing persons report on an eighteen-year-old named Cora Teague. Since the bones in her lab do seem to match Cora’s medical records, Tempe looks into the case, returning to the spot where the bones were originally found. What seems at first to be an isolated tragedy takes on a more sinister…

The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. Who was the girl? And was she murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a connection between the two cases? Convinced that the girl's death was no accident, Tempe soon finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy that extends from South America to Afghanistan. But to find justice for the dead, she must be more…

The discovery of a skeleton in Acadia, Canada, reawakens a traumatic episode for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan: Could the young girl's remains be those of Evangeline Landry, Tempe's friend who disappeared when Tempe was twelve? Exotic, free-spirited, and slightly older, Evangeline enlivened Tempe's summer beach visits then vanished amid whispers that she was "dangerous." Now, faced with bones scarred with inexplicable lesions, Tempe is consumed with solving a decades-old mystery - while her lover, detective Andrew Ryan, urgently needs her attention on a wave of teenage abductions and murders. With both Ryan and her ex-husband…

Featuring a preview of the highly anticipated new thriller Speaking in Bones, this eBook original novella showcases #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs at the peak of her powers. In Bones on Ice, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan gets wrapped up in the ultimate cold case: a murder on Mount Everest. It is called the “death zone”: the point on Everest, nearly five miles high, above which a climber cannot be rescued. More than 250 souls have lost their lives there. Most of the bodies remain, abandoned, frozen in place. When an earthquake leads to a miraculous recovery, Dr. Temperance Brennan is hired to identify the…

Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour. The building is old, with a colourful past, and Homicide Detective Luc Claudel dismisses the remains as historic: not his case, not his concern...But Forensic Anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has her doubts. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. A cold case, but Claudel's case nonetheless. Brennan is in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a trial. Digging up more bones was not on her agenda. And to make matters worse, her sometime-lover Detective Andrew Ryan disappears just as Tempe is beginning to trust him. Soon…

A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked and distressed, Tempe must use all her skills and inner strength to focus on the facts. But when the autopsies reveal that the children died of unnatural causes, the hunt for the mother - a young woman with a seedy past and at least three aliases - is on. The trail leads Tempe to Yellowknife, a cold, desolate diamond-mining town on the edge of…

Dr Temperance Brennan is in unfamiliar territory as she races to learn the truth from the bones - before it's too late. A new, exclusive straight-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, world leading forensic anthropologist and No.1 bestselling author of Deja Dead, Bones Are Forever and Bones of the Lost. Dr. Tempe Brennan has seen it all. Human bones. Animal bones. Old bones. Young bones. Male bones. Female bones. What she hasn't seen is all of them mixed together in the same case. Until now. The foothills of North Carolina aren't the only unfamiliar territory Tempe faces as she races to learn the meaning of the Bones in Her…

Cancelled by the publisher. Everyone has a breaking point. Could it be that Tempe has reached hers? From worrying about her daughter serving in Afghanistan, to she and her fiancée’s complicated living arrangement, Temperance Brennan is feeling the pressure. And things are bleak on the professional front too. Her beloved boss, Tim Larabee has died a heartbreaking death and his replacement, Margot Heavner, has not forgotten her long-standing feud with Tempe. Heavner might not be able to fire Tempe, but she can make it her mission to make her life a living hell. So when a mutilated corpse is found in a rural area, Dr. Temperance…

A decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach... The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue - it's a recent burial, and a case forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan must take. Dental remains and skeletal gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is a middle-aged white male - but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does the unusual fracture of the sixth cervical vertebra signify? But just as Brennan is trying to piece together the evidence, another body is discovered - and before long Tempe finds herself drawn deeper…

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns in a chilling eBook original novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs. In the prequel to Reichs’s upcoming thriller Bones Never Lie, Tempe takes a much-needed vacation—but murder follows wherever she goes. Although a trip to Florida is supposed to be about rest and relaxation, there’s no such thing as a day off for Dr. Temperance Brennan. She has come to visit her friend, a dedicated ornithologist who’s researching the threat that intrusive Burmese pythons pose to indigenous bird species in the Everglades. While sorting through the stomach of an eighteen-foot…