{"product_id":"9781668055441","title":"Evil Bones","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, magnetic “thriller of the highest order” (\u003ci\u003eBookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e) featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more sinister.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell. Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor has no definitive answer but offers several possibilities, warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries—and a shift in the perp’s focus to humans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Subsequently, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her and Slidell racing against a ticking clock. In this “grisly mystery that keeps us guessing” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e), Tempe faces a terrifying question: “What is pure evil?”","brand":"Kathy Reichs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47399841988748,"sku":"9781668055441","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/9580\/7884\/files\/BNCImageAPI_db4e9226-e01c-4bab-b2dc-a61a38abf9bd.jpg?v=1775782333","url":"https:\/\/pickadilly-books-coffee.myshopify.com\/products\/9781668055441","provider":"Pickadilly Books \u0026 Coffee ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}