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By: Paige Shelton
As a renowned forensic consultant digs into a casethat could reconnect her with herlongmissing father, she uncovers dark truths about her desert hometown.
This twisty, atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton will send chills racing down readers spines.
The desert runs through Hazel Dylans marrow. She grew up on the edge of The Wild, an untamed expanse outside her hometown of Black Vulture, Arizona. She became fascinated with bones as a child while observing her taxidermist father Wilmot, until he disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now, after years of study and countless cases, shes known as the Bone Woman. She can read the dark stories that bones tell.
When a hiker makes a disturbing discovery in The Wildbleached human bones arranged with surgical precision into a taxidermy-like sculpture of a coyote mid-howlSheriff Calloway summons Hazel to the scene. Not just for her formidable expertise, but because it looks like it could be Wilmots work. Could Hazels father be behind this twisted creation? Are these his bones?
Hazel doesnt want to believe either is true but after another sculpture is found, and Wilmots well-known talismana rogue finger boneis discovered amid both sets of remains, she cant deny the optics.
As the case takes Hazel deep into her past, she unearths long-buried secrets. And with time running out, shell have to risk her own skin to catch the killer.
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