TY - BOOK AB - "Temperance Brennan is grappling with her toughest challenge--how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan's marriage proposal--when the matter of matrimony is forced to take a backseat to the business of murder. Hazel 'Lucky' Strike, an amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases, is convinced she's solved the three-year-old mystery of a teenage girl's disappearance--and certain that the grim proof lies gathering dust in Brennan's lab. It's a claim that Brennan is more than a little reluctant to believe. But when the evidence seems to add up, Brennan's next stop is the treacherous backwoods of a remote county where disturbing questions await--along with traces of more untimely deaths. While local legends of satanic cults abound, it's a secretive religious sect that soon has Brennan struggling to separate the saints from the sinners. But fire and brimstone won't stop her from digging up the truth and taking down a killer--even if it means venturing into places where angels fear to tread, devils demand their due, and she may be damned no matter what." -- Page [4] of cover. AU - Reichs, Kathy, CN - Reichs ID - 740929 KW - Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character) KW - Women forensic anthropologists KW - Missing persons KW - Cold cases (Criminal investigation) N1 - Includes the novella, Bones on Ice (p. [347]-465) N2 - "Temperance Brennan is grappling with her toughest challenge--how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan's marriage proposal--when the matter of matrimony is forced to take a backseat to the business of murder. Hazel 'Lucky' Strike, an amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases, is convinced she's solved the three-year-old mystery of a teenage girl's disappearance--and certain that the grim proof lies gathering dust in Brennan's lab. It's a claim that Brennan is more than a little reluctant to believe. But when the evidence seems to add up, Brennan's next stop is the treacherous backwoods of a remote county where disturbing questions await--along with traces of more untimely deaths. While local legends of satanic cults abound, it's a secretive religious sect that soon has Brennan struggling to separate the saints from the sinners. But fire and brimstone won't stop her from digging up the truth and taking down a killer--even if it means venturing into places where angels fear to tread, devils demand their due, and she may be damned no matter what." -- Page [4] of cover. SN - 9780345544063 SN - 0345544064 T1 - Speaking in bones :a novel / TI - Speaking in bones :a novel / ER -