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Bare Bones

Kathy Reichs
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2003 by Temperance Brennan, L.P.

Al rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

SCRIBNERand design are trademarks of Macmil an Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work.

DESIGNED BY ERICH HOBBING

Text set in Stempel Garamond

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reichs, Kathy.

Bare bones/Kathy Reichs.

p. cm.

1. Brennan, Temperance (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Forensic anthropology—Fiction. 3. Women anthropologists—Fiction. 4. Endangered species

—Fiction. 5. Smuggling—Fiction. 6.North Carolina —Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.E476345B375 2003

PS3568.E476345B375 2003

813’.54—dc21

2003040725

ISBN 0-7432-6008-2

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Dedicated to al those fighting to protect our precious wildlife,

especial y:

TheUnited States Fish and Wildlife Service

The World Wildlife Foundation

The AnimalsAsia Foundation

Acknowledgments

IWISH TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE TOCAPTAINJOHNGALLAGHER(retired); to Detective John Appel, Guilford County, North Carolina, Sheriff ’s Department (retired); to Detective Chris Dozier, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department; and, especial y, to Ira J. Rimson, P.E., for help with the Cessna/drug scenario.

Many of those working to protect endangered wildlife gave generously of their time and expertise. Special thanks to Bonnie C. Yates, forensics specialist, Morphology/Mammals Team Leader, and Ken Goddard, director, Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory; to Lori Brown, investigative assistant, and Tom Bennett, resident agent in charge, United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and to Agent Howard Phelps, Carolyn Simmons, and the staff at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. You are on the front lines, battling to save what we can’t afford to lose. Your efforts are appreciated.

David M. Bird, Ph.D.,McGil University , provided information on threatened bird species. Randy Pearce, DDS, and James W. Wil iams, J.D., shared their knowledge of the Melungeons of Tennessee. Eric Buel, Ph.D., director, Vermont Forensics Laboratory, coached me on amelogenin. Michael Baden, M.D., and Claude Pothel, M.D., enlightened me on the details of diatoms and death by drowning.

Captain Barry Faile, Lancaster County Sheriff ’s Department, and Michael Morris,LancasterCounty coroner, were patient with my questions. Michael Sul ivan, M.D., welcomed me at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner facility. Terry Pitts, D.Min., NCFD, offered suggestions on funeral home basements. Judy H. Morgan, GRI, kept me accurate onCharlotte real estate and geography.

I appreciate the continued support of Chancel or James Woodward of the University of North Carolina–Charlotte.Mercito André Lauzon, M.D., chef de service, and to al of my col eagues at the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale.