#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes us to Charlotte, North Carolina, where America’s favorite forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must thwart a demonic plot involving ritual sacrifice before the town’s vengeful citizens take matters into their own hands.

In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a hidden cellar and makes a grisly discovery: a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine rests the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate, and a complex and gripping tale unfolds. Nothing is clear—neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy’s body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans—and Temperance will need all of her expertise to get to the real culprit first.

About The Author

Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Evil Bones is Reichs’s twenty-fourth novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Reichs was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Reichs divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on X @KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs, or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks.

Product Details

Publisher: Scribner (August 26, 2008)
Length: 320 pages
ISBN13: 9781416579830

Raves and Reviews

Praise for Kathy Reichs

“Reichs writes smart—no, make that brilliant—mysteries.”
—James Patterson

“I have every one of Reichs’s books to date. Reichs always delivers an incredible thriller.”
—Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Last to Vanish

“There’s a reason Kathy Reichs is the doyenne of forensic fiction—because her m.o. is to keep the reader guessing till the last paragraph.”
—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and coauthor of Mad Honey

“A consummate storyteller—who knows all the right chords to touch.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Templar Legacy and The Atlas Maneuver

“I love Kathy Reichs…Always scary, always suspenseful, and I always learn something.”
—Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

“Nobody writes a more imaginative thriller than Kathy Reichs or crafts a better sentence.”
—Clive Cussler, bestselling author of Night Probe and Sahara

“Each book is better than the last.”
—Lisa Scottoline, bestselling author of Look Again

“Kathy Reichs continues to be one of the most distinctive and talented writers in the genre.”
—Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author of White Hot and Chill Factor

“One of my favorite writers.”
—Karin Slaughter, author of Pieces of Her and Pretty Girls

“Kathy Reichs is expert at making science both scary and thrilling.”
—Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of Choose Me