A North Carolina native who consults in Montreal only a few months of the year, Tempe still hasn't acclimated to the bone-chilling Northern cold, and if she's come to expect the misogynist attitudes of some of the Canadian officials, she still bristles at them. As in D j Dead, Reichs-herself a forensic anthropologist-renders comprehensively and believably the cool, tense intelligence of her heroine. The three seemingly individual events begin to braid together, as the doings with the doomsday cult draw Tempe to North Carolina.
Tempe's caseload multiplies as a house fire proves to be a horrific instance of arson and a university teaching assistant who's recently joined a cult goes missing. But the bones aren't where they're supposed to be according to the graveyard map, and there's something suspicious about them when they do turn up. The novel opens atmospherically in a frigid church graveyard as Tempe labors to exhume the century-old remains of a nun so that the Church can posthumously declare her a saint. Forensic anthropologist Temperance ""Tempe"" Brennan of the Laboratoire de M dicine L gale in Montreal makes a triumphant second appearance in Reichs's powerful followup to her bestselling debut, D j Dead.
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