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Summary
Three bodies, all identified as a man who was declared dead in 1968--a victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam. Tempe sets off for answers assisted by her ex-lover, Detective Andrew Ryan and her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu's f... Full description
Summary: |
Three bodies, all identified as a man who was declared dead in 1968--a victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam. Tempe sets off for answers assisted by her ex-lover, Detective Andrew Ryan and her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu's flamboyant medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy found offshore. Was he the victim of a shark attack? Or something much more sinister? A complex and riveting tale of deceit and murder unfolds in this thirteenth thrilling novel. |
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Physical Description: |
x, 306 p. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781439102398 1439102392 9781439112793 (ebook) 1439112797 (ebook) |
Author Notes: |
She works as a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Quebec. She has taught at Northern Illinois University, University of Pittsburgh, Concordia University, McGill University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work as a forensic anthropologist is internationally recognized; she has traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, helped in an exhumation in the area of the highlands of southwest Guatemala, and done forensic work at Ground Zero in New York. In addition to her published academic papers and books, Reichs has written numerous works of crime fiction including Temperance Brennan series. Déjà Dead won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. She is a producer on the Fox television series Bones, which is loosely based on her own forensic career and writing. In 2015, she won the Silver Bullet Literary Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |