Bone by Bone

'A tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character' New York Times

Twenty years after the disappearance of his brother, ex-Army Criminal Investigator Oren returns to his family home to discover that human bones have been left on the doorstep.

Oren's ageing father believes them to be the bones of Oren's lost brother, Josh, but Oren quickly discovers that the bones are not just his brother's. There is at least one more body.

Faced with the horror of multiple victims, Oren is determined to find his brother's killer. But at what cost?

In a town full of long-buried secrets, Josh's secret may be the most shocking of all . . .

“'Plot twists aplenty keep you reading. ***'”

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A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character. A smart, skilful practioner of the myster-writing arts, O'Connell writes discreetly dazzling books - New York Times

Carol O'Connell is the New York Times bestselling creator of Kathy Mallory, and the author of thirteen books, eleven featuring her acclaimed detective, most recently IT HAPPENS IN THE DARK, as well as the stand-alone thrillers JUDAS CHILD and BONE BY BONE. She lives in New York City.

In the northern Californian town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother, Josh. Twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for the Army Criminal Investigations Department, returns home after many years, he is confronted on his first morning back with a human jawbone, teeth still intact, thrown onto the front porch. Josh is coming home . . . bone by bone. Using all his investigative skills, Oren sets out to solve the mystery of his brother's murder. Coventry is a town full of secrets and secret-keepers but the greatest secret of all belonged to his brother, and it is only by unravelling it that Oren can discover the truth that has haunted them all for twenty years.

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