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Learn more#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may be connected to a deadly new pestilence.
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.
En route to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Chillingly, Tempe recognizes many details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she flies to Montreal to gather evidence and convince her boss Pierre LaManch to reopen the cold case. She also seeks the adviceāand comfortāof her longtime beau Andrew Ryan.
Meanwhile, a storm of a different type gathers force in South Carolina. The citizens of Charleston are struck by capnocytophaga, a bacterium that, at its worst, can eat human flesh. Thousands panic and test themselves for a rare genetic mutation that may have rendered them vulnerable.
Shockingly, Tempe eventually deduces not only that the victims in both grisly murder cases are related, but that the murders and the disease outbreak also have a common cause.
Kathy ReichsāsĀ first novelĀ DĆ©jĆ Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Fire and Bones is Reichsās twenty-third novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ā Reichs was also a producer of Fox Televisionās longest running scripted drama,Ā Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Reichs divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina.Ā Visit her at KathyReichs.comĀ or follow her on TwitterĀ @KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs, or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks.Ā
LindaĀ EmondĀ has been nominated for three Tony Awards for her work inĀ Cabaret,Ā Death of aĀ Salesman,Ā andĀ Life x 3.Ā For her work off-Broadway, she is the recipient of a Lucille LortelĀ AwardĀ and an Obie. Television credits includeĀ Lodge 49,Ā The Good Wife,Ā Succession,Ā andĀ The Gilded Age.Ā Film credits includeĀ Gemini Man,Ā The Big Sick,Ā Across the Universe,Ā andĀ Julie & Julia.