Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

A forensic investigation uncovers Guatemala’s buried violence

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Temperance Brennan travels to Guatemala to help recover and identify victims from a mass grave, undertaking work that gives individual names and stories back to people erased by violence. The assignment becomes entangled with a contemporary investigation involving missing women and the discovery of human remains in a very different setting. As Brennan tries to understand the relationship between past atrocities and present crimes, official resistance and personal danger complicate the scientific work. Evidence must speak across years of silence, but powerful interests may prefer that it remain buried. Kathy Reichs combines forensic detail with a tense international mystery, placing Brennan in circumstances where professional responsibility and compassion expose her to threats that extend far beyond the examination of bones.