The first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review) from your #1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs.

Her life is normally specialized in justice-even for those she never knew.

In the entire year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in NEW YORK, function has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. Whenever a female corpse is uncovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage hand bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern-and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is going to place those closest to her-her closest friend and her own daughter-in mortal danger…

“A genius at building suspense” (Daily Information, NY), Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan books are ripe with intricate settings and memorable individuals” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).