When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist she serves on the response team. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one.

Temperance Brennan is called in to interpret the wounds of a man who was shot in the head, but while she tries to make sense of the fracture patterning, an unknown man slips her a photograph of a skeleton, telling her it holds the answer to the victim's death.

It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school - the students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a much more recent burial is uncovered.

Detective Andrew Ryan is working a series of cases and requires Dr Temperance Brennan's forensic expertise. Three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all in their early-to-mid teens. Could there be a serial killer at work?

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.

The Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No one know where, but Tory Brennan is certain that the Virals can work out Bonny's cryptic clues.

Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island - rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing once more.

A body is too decomposed for a standard autopsy. Dr Brennan takes on the forensic case and, convinced that a serial killer is at work, finally persuades the sceptical detective in charge of the truth, but only after the body count has grown.

The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier. This is no ordinary hit-and-run. Who was the girl? And was she murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, must find answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a sinister connection between the two cases?

Tory Brennan has a lot on her mind. She must battle an enemy in court, but without the support of her best friend, Ben, who isn't talking to her after a huge argument. And the rest of her Virals gang have problems too, with their unique powers becoming gradually wilder and less stable. But when two of her classmates are kidnapped, and a ransom video shows them held in a terrifying dungeon, Tory decides that enough is enough: now is the time for the Virals to forget their arguments and work together. It's clear that they must use all their powers to solve the crime and rescue the victims...