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The Bone Garden

by Tess Gerritsen
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'Fascinating... spectacularly gory... fast-paced.' Mail on Sunday
A GRUESOME SECRET UNEARTHED
When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did she die?
It is the 1830s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy.
It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer who slips from ballrooms to graveyards and into autopsy suites.
And who is far, far closer than Norris could ever imagine...
Readers are gripped by The Bone Garden:
***** 'A captivating tale . . . full of mystery, despair, horror, and the eventual truth.'
***** 'Compelling . . . kept me awake into the night.'
***** 'Absolutely riveting . . . I was hooked from the very first page.'

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    September 4, 2008

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      • ISBN: 9781407033419

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      • ISBN: 9781407033419
      • File size: 1432 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 13, 2007
      At the start of this disappointing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club
      ), 38-year-old divorcée Julia Hamill discovers a skeleton buried in the garden of the Boston house she’s just moved into; the ring found with the remains was in fashion in the 1830s, the fractured bones suggest murder. Flashback to 1830: medical student Norris Marshall, an outcast among his wealthier classmates, meets Rose Connolly in a Boston maternity ward, where Rose’s sister recently died of childbirth fever. When several gutted bodies turn up in deserted alleyways, Rose and Norris are the only ones to catch a glimpse of the killer, dubbed the West End Reaper. Norris, Rose and Norris’s fellow student, Oliver Wendell Holmes, race to uncover the truth behind the slayings, which will remind many of Jack the Ripper’s crimes. In the present, Julia is able to trace their progress with the help of a relative of the house’s former owner. Unfortunately, neither the present nor the historical story line maintains the suspense necessary for a whodunit spanning several generations.

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