The Temperance Brennan series made forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs a #1 New York Times best-selling author and has been a smash hit since DEjA Dead won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reichs' exploits have even inspired the hit television program Bones. This 12th riveting novel from the series finds Tempe tapping into her knowledge of the human skeleton to crack a vexing case.