It's one of the hottest summers on record and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to a long-overdue vacation. But it's not to be...

First, the bones of a newborn baby are found in a wood stove; the mother, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared.

Next, a Cessna flies into a rock face. The bodies of the pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition, and covered in an unknown substance.

And then a cache of bones is discovered in a remote corner of the county. But what happened there, and who will be the next victim? The answers lie hidden deep within the bones - if only Tempe can decipher them in time.

This book is in a nice but not perfect 2nd hand condition

03/04/16 SG