The Bone Garden - Hardcover

Gerritsen, Tess

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593057775 ISBN 13: 9780593057773

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2008

Synopsis

Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding - not a rock but a human skull. Medical examiner, Maura Isles quickly determines that the skeleton - that of a woman - dates back to the early 1800s. 'But too much time has passed,' Maura warns Julia. 'We may never know the whole story of how she died.' Boston in the 1830s is a place of disease and pestilence - and no one is more aware of this than Norris Marshall, a student at Harvard Medical School who is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all. Norris is a resurrectionist - a body-snatcher - who procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the most notorious killer of his time, a shadowy figure who flits through graveyards and glittering ballrooms. What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks ...

About this title

About the Author

International bestselling author TESS GERRITSEN began to write fiction whilst on maternity leave as a physician. She published her first novel in 1987 and has since sold over forty million copies of her books in forty countries.

Her series featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the television series Rizzoli and Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.

Now retired from medicine, she lives in Maine and writes full time.

From the Back Cover

Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding not a rock but a human skull.

Medical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines that the skeleton that of a woman dates back to the early 1800s. But too much time has passed, Maura warns Julia. We may never know the whole story of how she died.

Boston in the 1830s is a place of disease and pestilence and no one is more aware of this than Norris Marshall, a student at Harvard Medical School who is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all.

Norris is a resurrectionist - a body-snatcher - who procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the most notorious killer of his time, a shadowy figure who flits through graveyards and glittering ballrooms.

What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks ...

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593057775
• ISBN 13: 9780593057773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384