title: Bone Remains: Cold Cases in Forensic Anthropology
author:  Mary H. Manhein 
description: <P>Mary H. Manhein is the author of The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist; Trail of Bones: More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist; and the mystery novel Floating Souls: The Canal Murders. She is director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory at Louisiana State University.</P>
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  > Synopsis:
  
  > It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr Temperance
  > Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a
  > barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body
  > is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach… The skeleton is
  > articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-
  > tissue; the remains are encased in rotted fabric and topped by wisps of
  > pale, blond hair — a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Dental
  > remains and skeletal gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is
  > a middle-aged white male — but who was he? Why was he buried in a
  > clandestine grave? And what does the unusual vertical hairline fracture of
  > the sixth cervical vertebrae signify? While Tempe is trying to piece
  > together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. When a
  > bullet — intended, perhaps, for her — puts Tempe's estrange