Goodreads: 3.91/5
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a secret cellar and makes a grisly discovery: the room is littered with decapitated chickens, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. Worst of all, in the center of the shrine rests the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, a man walking his dog discovers an adolescent boy’s torso that’s been carved with a pentagram.
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate the connections between the deaths. But nothing is clear - not when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was teh skull brought to the cellar or was teh girl murdered there? Why is the boy’s torso so well preserved? As she struggles to make sense of the clues, Brenna finds her job complicated by a mob of citizen vigilantes who have caught wind of the deaths. Led by a preacher turned politician, the group blames devil worshippers and Wiccans, and they are determined to take justice into their own hands. As tensions boil over, Tempe draws on all of her expertise to get to the real culprit first.
Goodreads: 3.91/5
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a secret cellar and makes a grisly discovery: the room is littered with decapitated chickens, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. Worst of all, in the center of the shrine rests the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, a man walking his dog discovers an adolescent boy’s torso that’s been carved with a pentagram.
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate the connections between the deaths. But nothing is clear - not when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was teh skull brought to the cellar or was teh girl murdered there? Why is the boy’s torso so well preserved? As she struggles to make sense of the clues, Brenna finds her job complicated by a mob of citizen vigilantes who have caught wind of the deaths. Led by a preacher turned politician, the group blames devil worshippers and Wiccans, and they are determined to take justice into their own hands. As tensions boil over, Tempe draws on all of her expertise to get to the real culprit first.
ISBN: 9781501123184
