Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns in a case that will test her to her limit.

OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, ONLY HUMANS HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR EVIL…

Small animals have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the same bizarre manner. Now it seems the perp is upping the ante. When Temperance Brennan visits the latest crime scene, she finds that the victim is a dog. Somebody’s pet.

Vowing to find whoever is responsible, Tempe is disturbed to learn from a forensic psychologist that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries to come. And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the earlier killings. As Tempe follows the horrifying clues to a shocking conclusion, she finds herself forced to confront an increasingly terrifying question.

What is pure evil?

PRAISE FOR KATHY REICHS:

‘This page-turning series never lets the reader down’ HARLAN COBEN
‘One of my favourite writers’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales . . . We readers are truly grateful’ IAN RANKIN

PRAISE FOR KATHY REICHS:

‘I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell’ JAMES PATTERSON

‘Smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing from the first sentence’ MICHAEL CONNELLY

‘Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She’s the real deal’ DAVID BALDACCI

‘A great series has just gotten greater’ JEFFERY DEAVER

‘A master storyteller’ NELSON DeMILLE

‘Nobody writes a more imaginative thriller than Kathy Reichs’ CLIVE CUSSLER

‘Each book in the Temperance Brennan series is better than the last, I just can’t get enough!’ LISA SCOTTOLINE

‘Sinister and chilling’ LISA GARDNER

‘Masterfully constructed’ J.A. JANCE

‘The Queen of forensic crime’ EVENING STANDARD

‘Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden’ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Kathy Reichs's first novel, Déjà Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. To date, she has written twenty-four novels featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television's longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on X @KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks.