Speaking in Bones

＂Temperance Brennan is grappling with her toughest challenge--how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal--when the matter of matrimony is forced to take a backseat to the business of murder. Hazel ’Lucky’ Strike, an amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases, is convinced she’s solved the three-year-old mystery of a teenage girl’s disappearance--and certain that the grim proof lies gathering dust in Brennan’s lab...＂--Back cover.

Kathy Reichs is the author of eighteen ＂New York Times＂ bestselling novels featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Like her protagonist, Reichs is a forensic anthropologist one of fewer than one hundred ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. A professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is the former vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. Reichs s own life, as much as her novels, is the basis for the TV show ＂Bones, ＂ one of the longest-running series in the history of the Fox network.

＂From the Hardcover edition.＂＂