Bare Bones Dr. Temperance (Tempe to her friends and colleagues) Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who works in both Charlotte, NC and Montreal, Quebec. This story takes place during a particularly hot August in North Carolina. Tempe sometimes loves her job; but on weekends like this, she hates it because her colleague from Montreal, police lieutenant-detective Andrew Ryan, has arrived in Charlotte for their getaway to the beach (they’re hoping to become more than colleagues). Friday: A newborn has been found burned in a wood stove. Tempe knows the child’s grandfather. Saturday: Tempe and her daughter, Katy, are at a party in the North Carolina countryside. Her dog, Boyd, finds a bag of bones buried on the farmland. Tempe goes through the stuff only to find they’re bear bones, but there are a few strange items in the mix, too. Sunday: Tempe’s off to a plane crash and has to help put the human pieces together to figure out who they are. Monday: Tempe, Boyd, and Ryan are back at the farmland site. Boyd goes nuts at an old privy where bones are found (compliments to those in with the bear bones?). Other interesting items are found in the abandoned house on the property. Are all these incidents, murders, bones connected in some way? If you can wade through some of the technical subjects and descriptions, you’ll get to a good mystery and Tempe’s close encounter with the murderer. |