Speaking in Bones

Speaking in Bones is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Temperance Brennan, L.P.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reichs, Kathy.

Speaking in bones: a novel / Kathy Reichs.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-345-54404-9

eBook ISBN 978-0-345-54405-6

1. Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women forensic anthropologists—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.E476345S64 2015

813'.54—dc23 2015012541

eBook ISBN 9780345544056

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