Wisdom of the Bones
by Christopher Hyde
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Master of suspense Christopher Hyde takes us to Dallas in November of 1963, where Homicide Detective Ray Duval is about to collide with history. His girlfriend's mother used to talk about the wisdom of the bones: "When you're close to dying, you can see the truth." Now, with six months left to live, Duval is putting that wisdom to the test. He's trying to save one last life before he loses his own to a terminal heart condition. But the President's assassination has sent shockwaves of show more panic throughout the city. The killer has kidnapped another girl. And unless Duval can break the pattern, she'll be dead in forty-eight hours. "Hyde's storytelling is pure genius."--New York Daily News "[Hyde] draws tension with the skill of a surgeon."--New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Wisdom of the Bones
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Ray Duval
- Important places
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- Important events
- John F. Kennedy Assassination
- Dedication
- For all the fallen heroes
For all the forgotten victims - First words
- The monster sat at the scarred kitchen table in the shack and listened carefully to the night sounds of the dump: skittering animal noises, faint whispering from the screening woods that separated the mounds of garbage from t... (show all)he highway more than a mile away, the muffled crack and thud of ancient detritus giving way and sagging deeper down into the filthy strata of a hundred years or more of the county's waste.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"For my life," she whispered, smiling as the cold wind shook the last leaves from the trees around her, scattering them down on the grave and then skittering them away across the sloping winter grass, almost as though they were alive.
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