Temperance Brennan · Book 8
Cross Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 439
- ISBN-13
- 9781846170089
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cross Bones (2005), 439 pages, is the eighth Temperance Brennan novel, arriving between Monday Mourning and Break No Bones. By now the series has settled into its established rhythm of self-contained cases layered over Tempe's continuously developing personal life.
Its place in Temperance Brennan
Cross Bones is book 8 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Monday Mourning. It is followed by Break No Bones. See the full Temperance Brennan reading order.
Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who splits her working life between Montreal and North Carolina, identifying the dead from skeletal remains, decomposed bodies and crime-scene fragments that ordinary detectives can't make sense of. Kathy Reichs, herself a practicing forensic anthropologist, grounds every case in real bone science and lab procedure -- how to read trauma, age and cause of death from a skeleton -- rendered with a level of technical authenticity that set the template for…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781501123160
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743569774
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780434015078