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Informationen zum Autor Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Her first book! Deja Dead! catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels! the most recent include Bones Are Forever ! Flash and Bones and 206 bones . Klappentext When the body of a teenage girl is found! Temperance Brennan fears the worst. Was she an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was human trafficking involved? Was she murdered? As the case deepens! and Tempe grapples with her own personal turmoil! she finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy extending from South America to Afghanistan and beyond! right to the centre of Charlotte! North Carolina. Zusammenfassung The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. This is no ordinary hit-and-run. Who was the girl? And was she murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan! Forensic Anthropologist! must find the answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a sinister connection between the two cases? Convinced that the girl's death was no accident! Tempe takes courageous action to find justice for the dead. But her search throws her to the centre of a conspiracy that extends from South America to Afghanistan - and places her in terrible danger.