Cold, Cold Bones

By Kathy Reichs

Book Overview

#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs's twenty-first novel is "her masterpiece--smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing" (Michael Connelly)--and features forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases.

Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.

There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?

Could this elaborately staged scene be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on...and then her daughter disappears.

"The crowning achievement of a master storyteller" (Nelson DeMille), Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge--one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668026554
• ISBN13: 9781668026557
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Suspense Mystery

This is a Suspense Mystery, and this is the 21st book in the Temperance Brennan series. I found the characters to be boring, and I really did not connect to them. The mystery was ok. I just wanted more from this book. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.