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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
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Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
2) Cross Bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
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Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. When a stranger slips Tempe a photograph of a skeleton unearthed at an archaeological site, Tempe uncovers chilling ties between the dead man and secrets long buried in the dust of Israel. Traveling with Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe plunges into an international mystery as old as Jesus, and centered on the controversial discovery of Christ's tomb. Tempe...
3) Devil bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
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In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths...
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"In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway--described by Louise Penny as "a captivating amateur sleuth"--and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones"--
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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Temperance Brennan is a brilliant, sexy forensic antrhopologist called on to solve the toughest cases. The discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada is more than just another assignment...she can't help wondering if this skeleton could be a childhood friend she lost many years ago.
8) Bare bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
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Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
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The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, even with her own relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan at a delicate turning point. In the lab, the clean, well-perserved...
10) Spider bones
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Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning for a man who had been declared legally dead 40 years earlier--a former Vietnam vet. While trying to analyze the remains, a second set of remains turns up with the first victim's dog tags, and a body connected to a suspected shark attack washes ashore. Could the victims be connected?
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 3
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“Sharyn McCrumb transforms mystery into astonishing literature.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson gets a chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe Mountain Games, the Scottish festival where several hundred like-minded Americans celebrate their ancestors' folkways. But the innocent ethnic fair is cursed when the loathed Colin Campbell is found...
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson gets a chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe Mountain Games, the Scottish festival where several hundred like-minded Americans celebrate their ancestors' folkways. But the innocent ethnic fair is cursed when the loathed Colin Campbell is found...
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As Elizabeth MacPherson recovers from the death of her husband in Cherry Hill Psychiatric Hospital, her brother Bill and his law partner, A.P. Hill, become involved in the mystery of their new law office and of the PMS Outlaws. The outlaws are a former rival of Hill's and his female client, who travel the country taking vengeance on unwary male chauvinists.
14) A dying fall
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Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 5
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An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archaeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.
15) Paying the piper
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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"An archaeological team digging on a remote Scotland island has a killer in its ranks, and as the team dwindles, it is up to graduate student and part-time sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson to stop the murderer from digging any more graves."--NoveList.
16) The chalk pit
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Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
17) Deja Dead
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
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"In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Québec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern--and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her--her best friend and her own daughter--in mortal danger."
18) Death du jour
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
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Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate.
19) The Windsor knot
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 5
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If forensic anthropologist and ameteur slueth Elizabeth MacPherson is to have tea with the Queen of England, she has to get married first. And in the space of five weeks, she plans to do just that. When an old neighbor receives word that her husband has died again, it's up to Elizabeth to determine just whose ashes the double widow has been cursing at all these years....
20) Missing Susan
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Elizabeth MacPherson must solve a mystery that links the present to the past when she takes a tour of the famous crime scenes of the British Isles, and the tour itself becomes the scene of a crime.
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