Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Fans of romantic mystery could ask no more-except the promised sequel.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Julia turns sleuth over the violent objections of Brisbane, their relationship sizzling as they trade barbs and information.Ī sassy heroine and a masterful, secretive hero. And a ghost walks the Abbey’s dark passages.
Soon Lucy is found holding a bloody candlestick above the body of Snow. Among the other guests are Julia’s sisters, Emma and Lucy, the latter recently engaged to wealthy Sir Cedric Eastley Eastley’s cousin Julia’s Italian friend Count Fornacci her uncle Fly and worldly Lucian Snow, his curate. Brisbane is accompanied by his attractive but apparently silly fiancée, a woman Julia is sure he could never marry. Julia is surprised to discover among her father’s guests Nicholas Brisbane, the enigmatic private investigator she had grown to love during the investigation of her husband’s murder. When Lord March sends for Julia’s brother Lysander, recently married to an Italian beauty, they all return home to Bellmont Abbey, a huge estate built 700 years ago as a Cistercian monastery. Lady Julia Grey (formerly March) is in Italy with two of her brothers, recovering from the murder of her husband and her own near-death in a fire ( Silent in the Grave, 2007). The March family has the reputation of being wild as March hares, but when it comes to murder they are no fools.
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