Temperance Brennan · Book 20
Speaking in Bones
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780099558095
- Type
- novel
About this book
Speaking in Bones (2015), 432 pages, is the eighteenth Temperance Brennan novel, following the novella Swamp Bones and preceding Bones on Ice. Kathy Reichs continues drawing on her own forensic-anthropology background for the case's bone science.
Its place in Temperance Brennan
Speaking in Bones is book 20 in the Temperance Brennan series. It follows Swamp Bones. It is followed by Bones on Ice. 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 9780099558125
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780804194877
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101885543