Cross Bones

Forensic science intersects with biblical mystery in this tour de force bestseller from Kathy Reichs, whose heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan, is “the lab lady most likely to dethrone Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta” (USA Today).The key to a modern murder lies in the sands of history.Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But puzzling damage on the body of a shooting victim, an Orthodox Jewish man, suggests this is no ordinary Montreal murder. When a Stranger slips Tempe a photograph of a skeleton unearthed at an archaeological site, Tempe uncovers chilling ties between the dead man and secrets long buried in the dust of Israel. Traveling there with Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe plunges into an international mystery as old as Jesus, and centered on the controversial discovery of Christ’s tomb. Has a mastermind lured her into an elaborate hoax? If not, Tempe may be on the brink of rewriting two thousand years of history