Kathy Reichs: Bones in Her Pocket (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Dr Temperance Brennan is in unfamiliar territory as she races to learn the truth from the bones -- before it's too late. A new, exclusive straight-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, world leading forensic anthropologist and No.1 bestselling author of Deja Dead, Bones Are Forever and Bones of the Lost.

Dr. Tempe Brennan has seen it all. Human bones. Animal bones. Old bones. Young bones. Male bones. Female bones. What she hasn't seen is all of them mixed together in the same case.

Until now.

The foothills of North Carolina aren't the only unfamiliar territory Tempe faces as she races to learn the meaning of the Bones in Her Pocket.

Multi-million copy, international bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs is an expert in forensic science, giving her fiction an authenticity other crime writers would kill for.

Bones In Her Pocket also gives readers the first chance to read the opening chapters of Kathy's new thriller, Bones of the Lost, out in August.

Kathy Reichs: Bones in Her Pocket. A Temperance Brennan Short Story. Heinemann, ISBN: 9781448185580 (July, 2013), eBook £1.49.

Kathy Reichs: Bones in Her Pocket (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
A new story featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan -- available only in ebook -- from #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX TV's Bones producer, Kathy Reichs.

When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called to the scene. Animal remains? Or could this be related to bone fragments from a human male found nearby?

To Tempe's surprise, the decomposed body indicates the person was a female young adult. The profile fits the description of a missing graduate student named Edith Blankenship. Was Blankenship murdered? If so, why?

Blankenship's body turned up on an artist colony where an eco-radical named Herman Blount has been squatting. Blount has posted online rants threatening to blow up a power station he says is polluting the area. Is Blount capable of violence?

Blankenship was a loner, but she proved a dedicated advocate for birds at UNC--Charlotte and the Carolina Raptor Center. Did Blankenship's passion lead her into danger? Alongside Detective "Skinny" Slidell, Tempe puts life on hold until she discovers the truth behind Blankenship's death. But Tempe's own passion for crime solving will lead her into danger of her own.

This ebook exclusive story -- which comes with a special excerpt of Kathy Reichs's new novel, Bones of the Lost -- is an exhilarating new installment in the Temperance Brennan series.

Kathy Reichs: Bones in Her Pocket. A Tempe Brennan E-Short. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781476761978 (July, 2013), 60 p., $1.99.