Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. A winner for Harris this time out.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Gossipy, blithe, often funny-with a wind-up that’s fierce, shocking, and poignant. Then all hell breaks loose: Regina reappears heroics abound, and heroism too, as the convoluted plot comes to its end. Their neighbors Margaret and Luke Granberry try to be helpful, but Martin’s sister Barby is off on a cruise and other possibilities for Hayden’s care seem nonexistent. Once arrived, Roe struggles with the complex details of child care as she and Martin try to find the reason for Regina’s disappearance and a permanent home for the baby.
Now, he and Roe can stay there until matters are settled. Martin owns an old, refurbished farmhouse on the outskirts of town where Craig and Regina had been living. It’s soon decided that Hayden will have to be brought back to Corinth, Ohio, where Martin grew up and where there are relatives who might take the baby in. Then his best friend and former jailmate Rory also turns up, appearing stunned by Craig’s death.
Within the next 24 hours, Regina has disappeared, with her car but without her clothes or her baby and her ne’er-do-well husband Craig has been found, a hatchet through his head, on the stairs leading to their garage apartment. Aurora (Roe) Teagarden ( Dead Over Heels, 1996, etc.) is enjoying newlywed life with businessman Martin Bartell in Lawrencetown, Georgia, when Martin’s niece Regina from Ohio suddenly appears, accompanied by an infant named Hayden.
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