02683cam a2200409 i 4500 623822570 TxAuBib 20220720120000.0 220512s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022938491 9798885780100 hardcover TxAuBib rda Reichs, Kathy, author. Cold, Cold Bones / by Kathy Reichs. Large print. Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2022. 501 pages 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Temperance Brennan ; 21 "Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens. There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why? Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine "Skinny" Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit--and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe's Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective. Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on...and then her daughter disappears. At its core, Cold, Cold Bones is a novel of revenge--one in which revisiting the past may prove the only way to unravel the present"-- Provided by publisher. 20220720. Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women forensic anthropologists Fiction. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Monasteries Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Copycat crimes Fiction. North Carolina Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Mystery fiction. Thrillers . lcgft Fiction. lcgft Temperance Brennan ; 21. TXKPL