The Bone Code: A Temperance Brennan Novel Synopsis: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs’s twentieth thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. Inspiration for the BONES TV series. 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. ISBN - 10 198213996X ISBN - 13 978-1982139964 Very good pre-owned condition with a crease at the bottom of the front jacket, some odd binding glue (which does not affect reading), and an owl stamp inside the back cover.