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Credits

Writer: Kathy Reichs; Genres: Fiction, Thriller; Publisher: Scribner

Corpses in varying stages of decomp — picked-clean skeleton, ''putrefied jelly'' — pile up as forensic anthropologist (and Fox TV's Bones heroine) Temperance Brennan links them to a medical clinic.

Local Color
Swampy South Carolina's ''water was dark green, the mud black and slime-slick.''

Bodily Trauma
''Hinge fracture on the left transverse process of the C-6 vertebra.''

Lowdown
Engrossing procedural, snappy banter, and complex relationships are juxtaposed against the physical and moral rot.


 

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