Kathy Reichs
-#1
New York Times
bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit
Bones-returns with a riveting new novel
set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring America's favorite
forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan.
Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body
is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor
Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance
Brennan's office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to
share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble's
sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer,
disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept
company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot
Posse. Could the body be Cindi's? Or Cale's?
At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the
investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a
cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a
strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws
everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe
can't overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab
chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister?
What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?
A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the
fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs's "cleverly plotted and
expertly maintained series" (The New York Times Book
Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its
seventh season and in full syndication-and her most recent novel,
Spider Bones, an instant New York Times
bestseller-Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.
