Spider Bones

Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones--returns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones KATHY REICHS ensnares Dr. Temperance Brennan in a chilling puzzle of death and identity--in this superb addition to her "fascinating" (Entertainment Weekly ) forensic series. One man, two deaths--four decades apart. This story can't stay buried forever. Shocking discovers await Tempe at the scene of a Quebec drowning: the victim--identified as one John Lowery--was engaged in a bizarre sexual practice when he died; the same John Lowery was an American soldier declared dead in 1968, after a Huey crash in Vietnam. Who then, Tempe sets off to find out, is buried in the vet's North Carolina grave? Exhuming the remains and having them analyzed at a military compound in Hawaii gets complicated when Tempe's ex, Detective Andrew Ryan, appears, and a Honolulu ME consults with her on a lethal shark attack--or is it a more sinister predator? Then Lowery's dog tags turn up linked to yet another corpse, and Tempe must deconstruct a deadly deception that spans years, continents, and too many tragic losses.