When Helen Prejean is invited to write to a prisoner on Death Row who brutally killed two teenagers, she has little idea how much it will change her life. Although she abhors his crime, she befriends one man as he faces the electric chair. Dead Man Walking is Helen Prejean's gripping true story, which formed the basis for a major motion picture event. As powerful an indictment of the death penalty as has ever been written, her book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Kathy Reichs je soudní antropoložka, a proto její romány vynikají autentičností a smyslem pro detail. Hrdinka detektivního románu Temperance Brennanová má stejnou profesi a nyní nový případ - kostry tří mladých dívek nelezené ve sklepě. Detektiv Claudel je přesvědčen, že se jedná o historické pozůstatky, a nehodlá se dál o to zajímat. Jenomže Tempe má pochybnosti. Prozkoumá kosti a zubní sklovinu a pokud má pravdu, má Claudel na stole tři čerstvé vraždy. A Tempe se stále hlouběji zaplétá do pavučiny zla, z níž není úniku
The gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world class forensic
anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author. A newborn baby is found wedged
in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance
Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to
investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more
babies within the same room. Shocked and distressed, Tempe must use all her
skills and inner strength to focus on the facts. But when the autopsies reveal
that the children died of unnatural causes, the hunt for the mother - a young
woman with a seedy past and at least three aliases - is on. The trail leads
Tempe to Yellowknife, a cold, desolate diamond-mining town on the edge of the
Arctic Circle, where her quest for the truth only throws up more questions,
more secrets, and more dead bodies. Taking risks and working alone, Tempe
refuses to give up until she has discovered why the babies died. But in such a
hostile environment, can she avoid being the next victim?
