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1) 206 bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another "outstanding" book (Publishers Weekly) in her "cleverly plotted" (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. When Tempe finds herself regaining...
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. When Tempe finds herself regaining...
2) Fatal voyage
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan behind the scenes of a major commercial airliner crash in this pulse-pounding thriller.
"Buckle up and take this voyage," says People. The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight...
"Buckle up and take this voyage," says People. The journey begins with Temperance Brennan hearing shocking news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down in the mountains of western North Carolina, taking with it eighty-eight...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs explores Stockholm syndrome—the psychology of a captive submitting to the ideology of a captor—in this mesmerizing new thriller.
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...
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...
4) Deja dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series" (The New York Times Book Review).
Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew.
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a...
Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew.
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind.
Then comes Eli. When Lilia...
Then comes Eli. When Lilia...
6) Cross bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
A gripping and explosive thriller from internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, featuring Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan on the trail of a modern murder and an ancient biblical mystery.
Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But puzzling damage on the body of a shooting victim, an Orthodox Jewish man,...
Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But puzzling damage on the body of a shooting victim, an Orthodox Jewish man,...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions—and danger—forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this "triumphant second appearance" (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.
Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC in Charleston, South Carolina.
When she stumbles upon a recent...
Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC in Charleston, South Carolina.
When she stumbles upon a recent...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
"Hazel 'Lucky' Strike--a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases--comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of eighteen-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager's remains are gathering dust in Temperance Brennan's lab. Brennan has doubts about working with a self-styled...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house ... in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people. But there are no tracks in the snow leading either to the house or away. What happened here? Is this a murder/suicide case? Or will it turn into something much more sinister?"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of thousands of draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies and dying of cancer in Montreal, Fife has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life. The interview is filmed by his acolyte and ex-star student, Malcolm MacLeod, in the presence of...
Author
Series
Emile Cinq-Mars mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nick Madrid mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Speck Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
15) Cold, cold bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
After receiving a box containing a human eyeball, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases.
16) Lady jail
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fraud artist Abigail is having a hard time adjusting to prison life. When a fellow inmate is found dead Abigail senses more trouble is on the way. Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is summoned to investigate.
17) Petty theft
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
100 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Pascal, a neurotic cartoonist going through a rough time, becomes obsessed with a beautiful kleptomaniac he sees stealing a copy of his book from the bookstore.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all...
20) Asylum
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor's office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine's boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department"--
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