Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists world-wide with her extraordinary debut novel Déjà Deceased — and introduced ‘[a] amazing heroine’ (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec’s movie director of forensic anthropology, now returns in an exciting new investigation into the secrets of the dead.

In the bitter frosty of the Montreal winter season, Tempe Brennan can be digging to get a corpse buried greater than a hundred years ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it’s a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances which has seized her attention — and she only is ideally positioned to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. On the criminal offense scene, in the morgue, and in the laboratory, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec open fire to startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown — a nerve-shattering check of both her forensic experience and her skills for survival.