The Bone Garden

BJulia Hamill/B is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding ââ¬' not a rock but a human skull. Medical examiner BMaura Isles/B quickly determines that the skeleton ââ¬' that of a woman ââ¬' dates back to the early 1800s.ââ¬~But too much time has passed,' Maura warns Julia. ââ¬~We may never know the whole story of how she died.' Boston in the 1830s is a place of disease and pestilence ââ¬' and no one is more aware of this than BNorris Marshall,/B a student at Harvard Medical School who is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all. Norris is a resurrectionist - a body-snatcher - who procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the most notorious killer of his time, a shadowy figure who flits through graveyards and glittering ballrooms. What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he