An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint. A ritualistic display is revealed in the dark cellar. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan.

A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation and before Tempe can get to the one man with information he turns up dead.

Dr Temperance Brennan spends her life working amongst the decomposed, the mutilated and the skeletal. So the two-days-dead body she is called to examine holds little to surprise her. Until she discovers that the man is John Lowery, an ex-soldier who was apparently killed in Vietnam in 1968.

Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. Forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan must find answers before thousands arrive for the year's big race. But before she can carry out a proper examination, the FBI mysteriously confiscate and destroy the body. It's a dead end.

Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, Tempe Brennan. However, living on a secluded island off South Carolina, there is not much opportunity to put her knowledge to the test. But one day she stumbles across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over 30 years.

It's a summer of record-breaking heat in Charlotte, North Carolina and Dr Temperance Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years. But she's just out the door when the bones start appearing. Tempe must find the answers by teasing secrets from the bones - if only she can decipher them in time.

In the grounds of an abandoned convent, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of Sister Elisabeth Nicolet. But the body has been moved to an unmarked grave. Why have the remains been disturbed?

Temperance, forensic anthropologist for the state of Quebec, is recalled from a course for a gruesome duty. Biker war is raging in Quebec and two of its foot soldiers have blown themselves up. She is the person qualified to make sense of what remains."

Four girls are missing from Guatemala City, including the daughter of a high-ranking government official. When a skeleton is found, only someone with Temperance Brennan's expertise can deduce who the victim was and how they died. But her path is blocked.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan finds the skeletons of three young women in the basement of a pizza parlour. Homicide detective Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic. But Tempe has her doubts and sets out to prove that this is definitely a case of murder.