An edition of Grave Secrets: A Novel (2002)

Grave secrets

1st Pocket Books pbk. ed.
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An edition of Grave Secrets: A Novel (2002)

Grave secrets

1st Pocket Books pbk. ed.
  • 3.0 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 12 Have read

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well where, twenty years later, Dr. Temperance Brennan and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared."Forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in North Carolina and Montreal, Tempe is in Guatemala for a month's service to help some families identify and bury their dead. She digs in a cold, damp pit where she finds a hair clip, a fragment of cloth, a tiny sneaker. Her trowel touches something hard: the hip of a child no more than two years old.

It's heartbreaking work. Something savage happened here twenty years ago. The violence continues today. The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman's screams. Then there is silence. Dead silence.

With this new violence, everything changes, both for the team and for Tempe, who's asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privileged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian ambassador's daughter. Some remains have turned up in a septic tank, and Tempe unfortunately knows septic tanks.

Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolome Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, who may have more than just professional reasons to join her on the case, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala's borders. The stakes are huge. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices.

From cutting-edge science in the lab, where Tempe studies fetal bones and cat hair DNA, to a chilling en-counter in a lonely morgue, "Grave Secrets" is powerful, page-turning entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.

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Pocket Star Books
Language
English
Pages
366

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2003, Pocket Star Books
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2003, Pocket Star Books
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2002, William Heinemann
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2002, Scribner
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Edition Notes

Includes an excerpt from: Bones to ashes.

"From the author who inspired the Fox television drama Bones"--P. 1 of cover.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.E476345 G73 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 366 p. :
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24208610M
Internet Archive
gravesecrets00reic
ISBN 10
0671028383
ISBN 13
9780671028381
LCCN
2007310507
OCLC/WorldCat
52562791

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First Sentence

"" I AM DEAD."

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