Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto

bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut nove

Deja Dead--and introduced an impassioned character in

league with Patricia Cornwell s Kay Scarpetta.

Dr. Temperance Brennan. Quebec s director of forensic

anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new Investigation into

the secrets of the dead.

In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is

digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. While

Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past it s a chain of

contemporary deaths and disappearances that have seized

her attention and she alone is ideal y placed to make a

shattering connection among the seemingly unrelated events

At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe

probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to

startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in

Montreal with a terrifying showdown a nerve-shattering test

of both her forensic and her skills for survival.