Ruth Galloway is a forensic anthropologist. Our story starts with the discovery of a set of bones under the doorway of a building being torn down for new development. Ruth is called in to investigate and determine if the bones are "old" or "new". Her analysis leads to the discovery of a murdered young girl.

I was hoping for something different from this book. A big fan of the Bones series on TV, I thought the story would be more scientific. However, it is much more about the people solving the crime than the crime itself. Once I realized this I found the story to be very entertaining.

Ruth finds herself working with Inspector Harry Nelson again (I assume they worked together in book 1 as well). Consequences of their last encounter will be following Ruth for the rest of her life. Inspector Nelson finds himself feeling the need to protect her when he realizes that someone is literally trying to scare her to death to keep her from solving the case of the murdered little girl.

An enjoyable read, characters were fantastic, but it left much to be desired from a more technical/scientific point of view.

3/5