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For another, the job she turns out to have been hired for-leading an investigation her new boss doesn’t feel he can entrust to his own force-makes her queasy. For one thing, it’s cold-a whole lot colder than the coldest weather Cassie’s ever imagined. She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom.

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How does attempted murder sound?”įorget about solving all these crimes the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.īox takes another break from his highly successful Joe Pickett series ( Stone Cold, 2014, etc.) for a stand-alone about a police detective, a developmentally delayed boy, and a package everyone in North Dakota wants to grab.Ĭassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe’s own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man.

Kind of a bummer, really.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. As Simon and Cat each wrap up their stories, they compare notes about how hindsight would have been helpful, then shrug it off in a way that might have readers wondering what it’s all been for.ĭeath, death, death, and more death. Cat is meanwhile absorbed by pregnant Carrie Pegwell, a new patient convinced there’s something wrong with her unborn baby despite medical evidence that prompts Cat to guarantee a healthy birth and child. He keeps having dizziness and heart events that medical professionals persist in diagnosing as anxiety, though he’s certain that a cup of coffee will cure all his ills.

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Simon struggles to balance his professional insights with his newfound health concerns. But when Cat goes to visit Cindy the next day, she finds the house robbed, Declan hurt, and Cindy killed. At the reception to celebrate the gift and honor the donors, Simon watches as his sister, Cat Deerbon, who's a doctor, chats up Cindy as a possible friend and new patient of the private medical practice Cat’s working for.

An especially timely infusion to the department’s budget comes in the form of a new van donated by Declan McDermid and his wife, Cindy. Besides, getting his team to alert the neighbors of potential danger might take up valuable resources, and Simon’s supervisor and brother-in-law, Kieron Bright, has emphasized the need to economize whenever possible. A robbery seems so carefully planned that Simon is sure the burglars will strike again as long as they think no one’s on to them, so he orders his officers to keep the case quiet. Recovered as much as he can from the loss of his arm, Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler has achieved enough proficiency with his prosthetic arm to feel ready for his next case.

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Serial robbers turn to murder when a cop just returned from leave keeps their early strikes under wraps in the English town of Lafferton.

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