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Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
411 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the decapitated remains of a human body buried in plastic bags in the heart of the city leads Dr. Temperance Brennan, director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, into a life-threatening investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD’s Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she’s been asked to meet with a homicide cop who’s a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common — the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tempe is called to the Great Smoky Mountains, scene of the crash of TransSouth Air flight 228 where 88 souls suffered gruesome deaths. As the medical teams work to reassemble and identify bodies, Tempe makes a disturbing discovery, a foot that doesn't belong to any of the victims.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl’s body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse, police find an airline club card bearing the name of prominent local businessman John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific fire months earlier. How did Story and the girl know each other? Was she an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered?...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
viii, 339 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being summoned to South Carolina to teach at an archaeology field school, Tempe stumbles across a fresh skeleton among ancient bones and finds her own life threatened when the body count begins to climb.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
v, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic scientist Tempe Brennan isn't happy: it's freezing in Montreal, her detective boyfriend is giving her the cold shoulder and her macho colleagues won't take her seriously. When she is called in to examine three skeletons discovered in the basement of a pizza parlor her instincts tell her a crime was recently committed. Luc Claudel doesn't agree, but Tempe forges ahead and soon discovers that the victims are young women, probably teenagers...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
v. iii, 306 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xii, 317 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan is helping her Guatemalan colleagues identify the remains of villagers who were "disappeared" 20 years ago when she's called in to consult on four more recent disappearances. Is there a serial killer loose in Guatemala City, or is the fate of the young women who've gone missing--including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador--connected to the murder of a human-rights investigator looking into the decades-old massacre?
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
vi, 353 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she's called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris's gunshot death is murder or suicide.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan embarks on a dangerous journey into the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs when she is assigned to investigate the murders of two young girls--Emily Anne Toussaint who was killed when caught in the crossfire of a biker shootout, and Savannah Osprey who was last seen hitching a ride with a transient biker.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 18
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do — test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head. Hazel “Lucky” Strike — a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases — comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
vii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct......
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is faced with one of her most difficult assignments yet when she's asked to assist in a case involving the mysterious deaths of three dead babies. Making matters even more difficult for her is that she's forced to team up with her one-time boyfriend Detective Ryan on the case. As the investigation takes them from the heart of Montreal to the mining town of Yellowknife, the two discover a truth about the deaths...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for race week. The next day, a NASCAR crew member shares with Tempe a devastating story. Twelve years earlier his sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a professional race car driver, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right wing extremists known...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 15.5
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called to the scene. Animal remains? Or could this be related to bone fragments from a human male found nearby? To Tempe's surprise, the decomposed body indicates the person was a female young adult. The profile fits the description of a missing graduate student named Edith Blankenship. Was Blankenship murdered? If...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 -- the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets...
19) Matchup
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 445 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Matchup takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a ... new twist: gender, [in which] eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille.
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