Fire and Bones

Its place in Temperance Brennan

Fire and Bones is book 27 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows The Bone Hacker. It is followed by Evil 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…