And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe’s own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. The rabbit-hole world Bannister evokes is so relentlessly and convincingly sordid that her quietly hopeful ending seems nothing short of miraculous.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Redemption comes from a wholly unexpected quarter. Descending into the bowels of the underworld called the Tinderbox, he finds predatory kids, ruthless street gangs fighting deadly turf wars and dangers he literally can’t comprehend. “See where it got me!” Laurence, unable to let go of this last hope, follows the trail to London, where he swiftly learns just how mean the streets can be. “I tried love,” she spits at her husband. So when their son Tom glimpses someone he thinks might be his sister on a documentary about the London homeless, it’s not surprising that Jan can’t face the possibility that her daughter is still alive. Laurence and Jan Schofield have had six years since then to wonder whether she’s dead or alive, whether she ran off on a whim or planned to escape in advance, whether she left willingly or under duress. But after her father, a Birmingham architect, dropped her off in front of her music school, she seems to have been swallowed up. There was no reason the day of Cassie Schofield’s clarinet exam should have been any different from any other. Bannister takes a break from her Brodie Farrell/Daniel Hood series ( Breaking Faith, 2005, etc.) for an authentic London nightmare: a father’s desperate search for the daughter who vanished six years ago.
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