Her life is devoted to justice-even for those she never knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern-and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her-her best friend and her own daughter-in mortal danger…
