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. The greatest temptation of all, however, may be to let her guard down and give in to the flirtatious attentions of Hudson Ford, a sheriff’s detective with a lazy southern drawl and an uncanny knack for reading Benni’s mind.įowler (Arkansas Traveler, 2001, etc.) wants to tread the dangerous ground of self-examination but refuses to take any real risks as Benni, reinforced by constant evidence of her own desirability, emerges from her ordeal no different from before.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. Exploring the Sullivans’ tragic marriage serves as a distraction, but also prompts Benni to reconsider her relationship with Gabe, and she ponders questions of love, loyalty, and temptation. As Gabe and Del draw closer, Benni retreats, moving into their newly bought house alone and immersing herself in the job given her by Edna McClun, of the local historical society: cataloguing the belongings of Maple Bennett Sullivan, who disappeared from her San Celinas home 50 years ago, leaving her husband Garvey shot to death upstairs.
But amid the whirl of gown-fittings and bridal showers, Benni’s world falls apart when Gabe becomes entangled with a woman from his past: Delilah Hernandez, his partner from his days as an LAPD undercover cop.
Benni and her husband Gabriel Ortiz, San Celinas’s handsome chief of police, are about to move into their first new home together. Everyone’s favorite cowgirl, Benni Harper, seems about to have her heart’s desire: to see her best friend, Elvia Aragon, married to her cousin Emory and her Grandma Dove married to longtime love Isaac Lyons.
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