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Loading... Bone Box (2017)by Faye Kellerman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Suspense Another good book from this excellent author. Retirement does not come easy for Decker despite his great family and bucolic location. A body in the woods stirs things up. Two more really stoke his fire even in their skeleton state. Links to the local colleges begin to come to light and the chase is on. Lots of Jewish Ritual and food plus a smattering of old colleagues and a token appearance by a currently benign nemesis sustain the rhythm and historic storyline nicely. Rina is hiking and stumbles across a mostly buried body, who turns out to be a flamboyant man undergoing therapy to become a woman. Things get complicated quickly as in the process of determining the identity of the dead body, other missing women from the local colleges are introduced. Peter and his recent trainee (Tyler McAdams) start assembling the clues, including finding a key witness to identify a serial killer. Rina being more involved was refreshing. From start to finish I really enjoyed this novel. I was held in suspense until the end. I really liked, as well, the ... scientific explanation regarding a person's sex vs. gender that is sort of weaved throughout the story, in the beginning at least. We can change our skin, we can change our fat pockets, but our bones never lie. Adrianne no reviews | add a review
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical evidence at the gravesite: a youthful skeleton, a skull wound and long dark strands of hair surrounding the bony frame. As Decker and his partner, Tyler McAdams, further investigate, they realize that they're most likely dealing with a missing student from the nearby Five Colleges of Upstate - a well-known and well-respected consortium of higher learning where Rina works. And when more human remains are found in the same area, Decker and McAdams know this isn't just a one-off murder case. Short-staffed and with no convenient entry into the colleges, Decker enlists Rina's help to act as the eyes and ears of campus gossip. Winding their way through a dangerous labyrinth of steely suspects and untouchable academics, Decker, McAdams, and Rina race to protect their community from a psychopathic killer still in the area - and on the hunt for a fresh victim. No library descriptions found. |
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