Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet; Book 2) by Lawrence Durrel
Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the second) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.
NewYork Times #1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs is back with her twelfth novel featuring Tempe Brennan. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's present-tense terror as she's held captive and her memory of the cases of the murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab.
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[close] New York Times #1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs is back with her twelfth novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan.
Late one night, on a lonely road near London, Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher, meets a solitary woman dressed in white.
This is the opening scene of The Woman in White, a great Victorian sensation novel, full of mystery , excitement, and suspense. Who is the mysterious woman in white, and why is she alone on the road to London at midnight?
Kathy Reichs - Devil Bones [Temperance Brennan series
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog.
Kathy Reichs - Bones to Ashes [Temperance Brennan series
Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters...'Preliminary diagnosis?' 'Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process? Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the above? I don't have a diagnosis...' The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check.
