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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway--described by Louise Penny as "a captivating amateur sleuth"--and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones"--
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway's druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as a vision of the Virgin Mary. But then a woman wrapped in blue cloth is found dead the next day, and Ruth's old friend Hilary, an Anglican priest, receives a series of hateful, threatening...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"--
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English
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"When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum's curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum's wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables. These two deaths could be from natural causes, but once again Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson cross paths during the investigation. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children. Now Ruth is the reluctant star of the TV series Women Who Kill, working alongside the program's alluring history expert, Professor Chet Bruce....
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Series
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English
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Far below Norwich is a maze of old mining tunnels. When Ruth Galloway is called to examine a set of human remains in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is looking for a homeless woman who he hears has gone “underground.” Could she have disappeared into the labyrinth? And if so, is she connected...
9) A dying fall
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Series
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English
Description
After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
10) Anil's ghost
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English
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Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist who had emigrated to America and now works for an international human rights organization, returns to her homeland to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders. She is assigned to work with Sarath Diyasena, a phlegmatic archaeologist whose own political affiliations remain cloudy and is soon involved in the process of restoring "skeletons officially declared prehistoric remains" (though...
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 16
Language
English
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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...
15) The bone hacker
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young men-tourists-have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact that...
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 volume 18
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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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...
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