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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth "pulse-pounding" (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring North America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan--a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high danger world of diamond mining. Beneath a diamond's perfect surface lies a story of violence and greed. Just like bones... In a run-down Montreal apartment, Tempe finds heartbreaking evidence of three innocent lives ended. The landlord says Alma Rogers lives there--is she the same woman who checked into a city hospital as Amy Roberts, then fled before doctors could treat her uncontrolled bleeding? Is she Alva Rodriguez, sought by a man who appeared at the crime scene? Heading up an investigation crackling with the sexual tension of past intimacies, Tempe leads homicide detective Andrew Ryan and police sergeant Ollie Hasty along the woman's trail and into the farthest reaches of mining country--where the grim industry of unearthing diamonds exacts a price in blood. And where the truths the unlikely trio uncovers are more sinister than they could have imagined.

Na ostrove Dewees v Južnej Karolíne sa študenti archeológie pod vedením Temperance Brennanovej snažia zachrániť zvyšky starého indiánskeho pohrebiska. Dni letnej školy plynú v monotónnom rytme, až kým budúci archeológovia nenarazia na čerstvý hrob. Tempe nahlási nájdenú kostru miestnej koronerke a rozhodne sa pomôcť jej s identifikáciou ostatkov. Na kostiach objaví zvláštne ryhy a stopy po škrtení. Zakrátko jej do pitevne privezú ďalšiu mŕtvolu - telo obeseného muža s rovnako poškodenými kosťami. Počiatočné podozrenie, že ide o samovraždu, spochybní odhalenie totožnosti mŕtveho a iné nevyriešené prípady nezvestných mužov a žien v okolí.

Doktorka Temperance Brennanová, forenzná antropologička známa aj zo seriálu Kosti, má nový prípad. V pivnici pod pizzeriou v starom nájomnom dome v Montreale sa našli ostatky troch mladých žien. Polícia podľa starožitných gombíkov usúdila, že telá pred vyše sto rokmi pochovali v neoznačenom hrobe. Tempe Brennanová má iný názor. Nebude ľahké dokázať, že nejde o archeologický nález, ale o obete násilia spáchaného v nedávnej minulosti. Brennanová je odhodlaná vyniesť pravdu na svetlo. Zistí, že dom kedysi patril montrealskému mafiánovi a neskôr si niektoré izby prenajímali podivné indivíduá. Rozbor kostí a svedectvo sestry bývalej nájomníčky ju nasmerujú k nevyriešeným prípadom nezvestných dievčat a k únosom páchaným psychopatickými dvojicami.

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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.