The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered two centuries earlier sends a medical examiner on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which a Harvard Medical School student had become the prime suspect.

"#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases"-- 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...

The New York crimefighting team of medical examiner Jake Rosen and attorney Philomena "Manny" Manfreda take on the bizarre case of a stalker and thief who sedates his victims and then steals vials of their blood.

A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith," can break through any lock or security system...

After suffering a terrible personal loss, Dr. Samantha Owens is settling into a new job at Georgetown University when she receives a letter from a dead man asking to solve his murder. As she investigates the man's death, she is pulled into a twenty-year-old mystery involving a kidnapped child as well as the present-day death of Timothy Savage. Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens autopsies the body of suicide victim Timothy Savage and discovers...