Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs, ISBN 9780099307303

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Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in Montreal and North Carolina, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala, where her skills will be tested to the limit . . .

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya. Twenty years later, Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, travels to Guatemala to work on one of the most heartbreaking cases of her career. Twenty-three women and children are said to lie where Tempe and a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation must search for remains. It's one of five mass graves. No records were kept. Families and neighbours refer to their lost members as "the disappeared".

As Tempe digs in the cold, damp pit, the soil begins to yield ash and cinders. Its colour changes from mahogany to graveyard black. Her trowel touches something hard. The bone of a child no more than two years old. Something savage happened in this village twenty years ago.

And something savage is happening today. Four girls are missing from Guatemala City, including the daughter of the Canadian Ambassador. A skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a run-down hotel. Only someone with Tempe's expertise can deduce who the victim was and how they died. But her path is blocked - by the district attorney's office.

When a young archaeologist is brutally murdered, warning bells begin to ring for Tempe. She realises that she may be the next victim in a web of intrigue that connects the historical and contemporary murders. The corruption runs too deep to know where to turn. It appears that some people would prefer that Chupan Ya stayed buried. And others want the missing girls kept the same way . . .

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About the Author: Kathy Reichs

Kathleen Joan "Kathy" Reichs is native of Chicago and works as a forensic anthropologist, an academic, and bestselling writer of mystery novels. She is a Professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave. She divides her time between work for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Her schedule also involves a number of speaking engagements around the world.

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