title: 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan Series, Book 1)
author:  Kathy Reichs 
description: Starred Review. At the start of bestseller Reichs's outstanding 12th thriller to feature Dr. Temperance Brennan (after <I>Devil Bones</I>), Brennan finds herself bound and injured in an underground tomb. In flashbacks, Reichs fills in the how and why of the forensic anthropologist's deadly predicament. When Brennan and Andrew Ryan of the S&ucirc;ret&eacute; du Qu&eacute;bec arrive in Chicago on business, she's accused of botching the autopsy of Rose Jurmain, a Canadian heiress. Knowing only that an anonymous caller instigated the investigation, Brennan is determined to uncover who's out to sabotage her. Back in her Montreal lab, Brennan soon realizes that not only is Jurmain's death possibly linked to the brutal murders of other elderly women but that whoever is out to tarnish her reputation refuses to back off. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science and a stubborn, compelling heroine, Reichs manages to juggle several story lines without losing an ounce of momentum. <I>(Aug.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ## BREAK NO BONES
  
  
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  ## By
  
  
  
  
  
  ## KATHY REICHS
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### The ninth book in the Temperance Brennan series
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Copyright © Temperance Brennan L.P. 2006
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### ISBN 0434010421 (hardback)
  
  
  
  
  
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  ##### In loving memory of Arvils Reichs
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### February 9, 1949–February 23, 2006
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### _Dusi Saldi_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### 1
  
  
  
  
  
  NEVER FAILS. YOU'RE WRAPPING UP THE OPERATION WHEN SOMEONE blunders onto the
  season's big score.
  
  
  
  
  
  OK. I'm exaggerating. But it's damn close to what happened. And the
  
  
  final outcome was far more disturbing than any last-minute discovery of
  
  
  a potsherd or hearth.
  
  
  
  
  
  It was May 18, the _second_ -to-the-last day of the
  
  
  archaeological field school. I had twenty students digging a site on
  
  
  Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina.
  
  
  
  
  
  I also had a journalist. With the IQ of plankton.
  
  
  
  
  
  "Sixteen bodies?" Plankton pulled a spiral notebook as his brain strobed
  vision