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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, magnetic "thriller of the highest order" (Bookreporter) featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more sinister. Small creatures--a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel--have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she's diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human. Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone's pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell. Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor has no definitive answer but offers several possibilities, warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries--and a shift in the perp's focus to humans. And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Subsequently, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her and Slidell racing against a ticking clock. In this "grisly mystery that keeps us guessing" (Booklist), Tempe faces a terrifying question: "What is pure evil?"
Evil Bones
$27.99
Book details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Publication date
- November 18, 2025
- ISBN
- 9781668051474
- Publisher
- Scribner Book Company
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Series
- Temperance Brennan Novel
- BISAC
- Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
- Themes
- Feminine
- Related subjects
- Brennan, Temperance, Women forensic anthropologists, Wildlife crimes, Murder, Investigation, Charlotte (N.C.), North Carolina, Detective and mystery fiction, Forensic fiction, Thrillers (Fiction)