Fire and Bones

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#1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, surprise-packed thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the centre of a Washington arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.

It's never easy working fire scenes, Tempe thinks. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances, she sees all of her misgivings justified. The building site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighbourhood with a colourful past and present, and the residences ownership becomes even more suspicious when Tempe delves into the building's past.

The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Soon the duo learns that back in the thirties and forties the property belonged to a member a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his farm in Fairfax County, Virginia. Coincidence Targeted attacks So many questions.

As Tempe and Ivy dig deeper, an arrest is finally made. Then another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground, claiming one more victim. Slowly, Tempes instincts begin raising flags. Have too many of her moves while in Washington been anticipated in advance

Long after that first fire is extinguished its flames of consequence spread outward, and eventually Tempe finds herself fighting for her life.

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Kathy Reichssfirst novelDj Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Fire and Bones is Reichss twenty-third novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Reichs was also a producer of Fox Televisions 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.comor follow her on Twitter@KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs, or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks.