Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs
The case started like cases often do for Temperance Brennan: a phone call asking her to consult on an old case, a file of autopsy results and an earnest cop from a distant jurisdiction. But in this case, the victim was known: so why call in one of the country’s leading forensic anthropologists? It was the DNA: trace evidence with a DNA match to a long-ago case Brennan had worked in Montreal, a case she’d worked with Ryan. Ryan, the man who had cracked the Anique Pomerlau case, the homicide lieutenant gone missing lo, these many months.
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| Emily Deschanel, TV's Temperance Brennan from"Bones" [Gabe Skidmore, wikimedia commons] |
They didn’t want Brennan, they wanted Ryan – and they figured she could find him and he could find Pomerlau. Brennan didn’t think she could, but a new case in her own back yard made matters more urgent: the MO fit Pomerlau’s style, and Brennan’s research suggested that it was not the first time the woman had plied her evil trade in Charlotte… and so she jumped on a plane to fetch her sometime partner, sometime lover.
The trail led them back to Montreal where they reopened the files on the Pomerlau case; and then to Vermont whence the earnest detective with the damning DNA match had come a-visiting. Brennan did what Brennan does: she puzzled through the mystery and, in the process, got herself in deep doo-doo.
What: you expected different?
