Speaking in Bones Author:Kathy Reichs The compelling new Dr Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is approached by a websleuth - one of thousands of amateur detectives who try to solve cold cases via the internet. The woman, Hazel 'Lucky' Strike, tells Tempe she has ma... more »tched a previously unidentified set of remains with a name. She is convinced the victim is an eighteen-year-old girl named Cora Teague and that Tempe has the remains in her lab. Strike plays an audio recording for Tempe, of a terrified girl who she believes is Cora. She found the recorder near where the unidentified bones were discovered - below an overlook in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tempe checks, and although she does have the bones, at first she is inclined to dismiss Strike's claims. However, something about the story won't let her go. And as Tempe investigates further she finds herself involved in a case more complicated and horrifying than she could ever have imagined.« less