The Bone Woman

A thriller written by an expert in forensic medicine.

The inspiration for the forensic agency in the book came from an agency that actually belongs to the author.

Jane Hall and Sүүli Lander work in forensic anthropology. Their private firm specializes in forensic analysis of unidentified bodies. For them, every smallest detail on a body is a key to uncovering the victim’s identity and the circumstances of her death.

At the University of California, a buried body is found by chance. The head of the university’s cultural research department—a colleague of Jane and Sүүli—invites them to conduct an initial examination. They determine that the found person was a teenager or young adult aged sixteen to twenty. But horror is only just beginning…

The dead person died in agony. Her muscles were paralyzed, yet her consciousness remained. It was like the delayed effect of a deadly injection. In essence, she was tortured. The rare drugs used for this match those that were administered in a murder in another part of the country. Everything points to a serial killer—and that means there will be more victims…