Table Of ContentCover Page: IV
Title Page Page: IV
Dedication Page: VII
Epigraph Page: VIII
Chapter 1 Page: X
Chapter 2 Page: 8
Chapter 3 Page: 18
Chapter 4 Page: 29
Chapter 5 Page: 38
Chapter 6 Page: 47
Chapter 7 Page: 52
Chapter 8 Page: 62
Chapter 9 Page: 71
Chapter 10 Page: 80
Chapter 11 Page: 91
Chapter 12 Page: 99
Chapter 13 Page: 107
Chapter 14 Page: 115
Chapter 15 Page: 125
Chapter 16 Page: 133
Chapter 17 Page: 140
Chapter 18 Page: 149
Chapter 19 Page: 158
Chapter 20 Page: 166
Chapter 21 Page: 176
Chapter 22 Page: 184
Chapter 23 Page: 196
Chapter 24 Page: 205
Chapter 25 Page: 214
Chapter 26 Page: 222
Chapter 27 Page: 229
Chapter 28 Page: 239
Chapter 29 Page: 246
Chapter 30 Page: 255
Chapter 31 Page: 263
Chapter 32 Page: 275
Chapter 33 Page: 283
Chapter 34 Page: 291
Chapter 35 Page: 299
Chapter 36 Page: 307
Chapter 37 Page: 315
Chapter 38 Page: 324
Chapter 39 Page: 332
Chapter 40 Page: 341
Epilogue Page: 349
Acknowledgments Page: 352
Reading Group Guide Page: 356
‘Cold, Cold Bones’ Teaser Page: 356
About the Author Page: 356
Copyright Page: 356
Description:#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs’s twentieth “brilliant” (Louise Penny) thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. “This is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp dialogue, and plenty of suspense” (Booklist). On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark secret—and willing to do anything to keep it hidden. An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code is “a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of fright” (James Patterson).
