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Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from "New York Times" bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . . Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local resurrectionists those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect. To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, "The Bone Garden" deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen s finest achievement to date. "From the Hardcover edition.""

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100345497619

ISBN-139780345497611

eBay Product ID (ePID)64228715

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Book TitleBone Garden

TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, Thrillers / General, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2008

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorTess Gerritsen

FormatMass Market, Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1in.

Item Length6.9in.

Item Width4.2in.

Weight8.9 Oz

Item Weight8.9 Oz

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ReviewsPraise for The Mephisto Club "Equally fascinating and horrifying . . . The pages seem to turn themselves." The Boston Globe "Powerful . . . white-knuckle suspense at its finest." Mississippi Clarion-Ledger "A potpourri of thrills." Orlando Sentinel "A tale that will keep readers feverishly turning pages." Newsday From the Hardcover edition.

Dewey Edition22

Publication Date2008-07-29

Dewey Decimal813.54

Number of Pages512 Pages