206 BONES finds Tempe and Ryan in Chicago, where they have been asked to personally accompany remains recently discovered in Montreal. They wonder what merits this special treatment, but not for long.  It turns out that the deceased, an older woman named Rose Jurmain, was from a storied Chicago family with deep pockets and litigious tendencies.
 
In short order, the family's lawyer tells Tempe she has been accused, by an anonymous tipster, of botching Jurmain's autopsy, and maybe even of intentionally covering up a murder.  Tempe, always meticulous in her work, is furious and determined to find out who is behind the anonymous accusation. Within hours, though, the one person with information about the caller is dead. It seems impossible that the call and the death are unconnected, and Tempe is worried that it's personal. Is someone out to destroy her career, or maybe even worse?

While Tempe begins to uncover who's trying to sabotage her, three more elderly women turn up dead around Montreal. Could their deaths be related to the Chicago heiress's? Tempe and Ryan think they must. Meanwhile, things at Tempe's lab grow increasingly tense as an ambitious new colleague seeks to prove herself. How far will she go to get ahead? Office politics threaten to turn deadly in 206 BONES, Reichs's most terrifying thriller to date.

"Reichs juggles the questions of who done it... until the very end with consummate skill... Not content to keep things simmering on low boil, Reichs dunks her protagonist into a pressure cooker... She's a true master of cliff hangers." -- Jeffery Deaver
 
"The science is fascinating, and every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden." -- The New York Times Book Review
 
"A genius at building suspense." -- New York Daily News
 
"Dan Brown can't hold a candle to the writing and plotting of Kathy Reichs." -- Liz Smith
 
"At this point, Reichs is even better than Cornwell." -- Publishers Weekly
 
Kathy Reichs, like her fictional creation, Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist for the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale for the province of Quebec. She was vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Science, serves on the Canadian National Police Services Advisory Board, and is one of only seventy-five forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago. 206 Bones is her twelfth novel featuring Temperance Brennan. Her website is www.kathyreichs.com.