Bone by Bone
by Carol O'Connell
A
stunning stand-alone novel from the national-bestselling author who ?has raised
the standard for psychological thrillers? (Chicago Tribune).
Carol O'Connell?s most
recent Mallory novel, Find Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense
novels of the year. ?A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of
suspense, mystery and show-stopping character? (Janet Maslin of The New York
Times); ?yet another example of the spot-on talents of one of America?s finest
writers of mysteries? (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). In Bone by Bone, however,
she may have written her most unforgettable novel yet.
In the northern California
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, until
twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for
the Army CID, returns to Coventry for the first time in many years. His first
morning back, he hears a thump on the front porch. Lying in front of the door
is a human jawbone, the teeth still intact. And it is not the first such
object, his father tells him. Other remains have been left there as well. Josh
is coming home . . . bone by bone.
Using all his investigative
skills, Oren sets out to solve the mystery of his brother?s murder, but
Coventry is a town full of secrets and secret-keepers: the housekeeper with the
fugitive past, the deputy with the old grudge, the reclusive ex-cop from L.A.,
the woman with the title of town monster, and, not least of all, Oren himself.
But the greatest secret of all belonged to his brother, and it is only by
unraveling it that Oren can begin to discover the truth that has haunted them
all for twenty years.
Written with the rich
prose, resonant characters, and knife-edge suspense that have won the author so
many fans, Bone by Bone is further proof that O'Connell is one of the most
poetic yet tough-minded writers of the genre? (San Francisco Chronicle).
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