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Temperance Brennan is summoned to a rural town in Hemmingford, Quebec, where a drowning victim’s body appears to have been killed during a bizarre sexual act. Upon her examination, she discovers the corpse is John Lowery, an American soldier declared dead in Vietnam in 1968. Brennan faces a perplexing case: how could Lowery have died twice, and what connection links a North Carolina burial to a Quebec shoreline? The novel follows her scientific inquiry and investigative instincts as she pieces together the sequence of events that span time and geography.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Kathy Reichs
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