The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

The Bone Garden

By Tess Gerritsen

  • Release Date: 2007-09-18
  • Genre: Historical Mysteries
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 216 Ratings

Description

Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time.

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.

To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity.

With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen’s finest achievement to date.

This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.

"The story, which digs up a dark Boston of times long past, entices readers to keep turning pages long after their bedtimes."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Reviews

  • Bone garden

    5
    By dmw 2020
    One of her best
  • Page turner! Hard to put down! Great read!

    5
    By Jamila Figs
    Once I opened this book I was not able to put it down! One of the best books I have read in a while! I can’t wait to read another of her books!
  • The Bone Garden

    5
    By JoShako
    Loved this book. My favorite summer read.
  • Her best book

    5
    By Possible7689
    This was the best book I have ever read of hers.
  • Good good good

    5
    By Ye old music lover
    Double story perfectly told. Would make a great movie. Am buying another of her books to read now!
  • The bone garden

    5
    By Sprklhair
    Loved this book! I didn't want it to end. No doubt a page turner.