Cold, Cold Bones
Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs is a gripping addition to the series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Published by Simon and Schuster on July 5, 2022, this first edition spans 352 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds in North Carolina during a winter marked by a surprising drop in crime, allowing Tempe to focus on her daughter, Katy. However, their quiet evening is disrupted when they discover a box containing a fresh human eyeball, leading them to a series of gruesome killings that eerily echo Tempe’s past cases.
Readers will find themselves immersed in a complex mystery as Tempe, alongside detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell and her partner Andrew Ryan, navigates a web of murders that seem to target her directly. The investigation reveals a chilling connection to her earlier work, raising questions about revenge and the past. As the plot thickens, Tempe’s personal stakes escalate when her daughter goes missing, intensifying the suspense. Cold, Cold Bones explores themes of crime, suspense, and the intricacies of human relationships, making it a notable entry in the mystery and detective genre.
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“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly
“This page-turning series never lets the reader down.” —Harlan Coben
“The crowning achievement of a master storyteller.” —Nelson DeMille
#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs’s twenty-first novel of suspense featuring 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?
Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit—and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe’s Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.
Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem 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.
At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge—one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present.
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