When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is named in to examine your body and to find out the puzzling harm to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her an image of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key towards the victim’s death. Before she knows it, Tempe is usually involved in an international mystery as aged as Jesus, a secret that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.

Tempe learns the stranger’s picture shows bone fragments uncovered during an archeological dig. She discovers the Montreal capturing victim went an import business that might have fronted for the trade of black marketplace antiquities. Along with Detective Andrew Ryan and biblical archeologist Jake Drum, Tempe travels to Israel to probe the roots of the skeleton and the historic crypt in which it was found.

They make a startling discovery that boosts radical questions about Christ’s death and places them squarely in the middle of a swirling controversy. Could one of the tombs actually become Christ’s last resting place? Or, offers someone concocted a more elaborate hoax?