brennan, temperance (fictitious character)

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a colleague, and in the midst of teaching at an archaeology school, Temperance stumbles upon a murder mystery that may threaten her life.

Facing the most heartbreaking case of her career, Temperance Brennan investigates shallow graves where fading clues begin to emerge of a brutal crime that was committed more than two decades ago.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial, becomes involved in a deeper mystery when the skeletonized remains of three young women are found in the basement of a pizza parlor, and tests indicate the deaths were recent.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan helps an old friend investigate a series of murders in Charleston.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan digs up the grave of a nun who may qualify for sainthood in Montreal but finds they have been moved and tampered with, and when she makes a connection between an arson and a disappearance, she begins investigating a suspicious cult in a journey that takes her to her to the Carolinas and then back to Canada.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.

"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--Provided by publisher.

Tempe Brennan teams up with Detective "Skinny" Slidell to investigate when the decomposed body of a young woman is found floating in a river that fits the description of a missing graduate student, Edith Blankenship, whose eco-activism may have gotten her killed.