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The Bone Garden

by Tess Gerritsen

A skull in a modern garden unlocks a murder mystery buried in the darkest corners of 1830s Boston.

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About The Bone Garden

After finding a murdered woman’s skull on the grounds of her Massachusetts home, Julia Hamill uncovers a mystery rooted nearly two centuries in the past. In 1830 Boston, impoverished medical student Norris Marshall earns money supplying cadavers to a medical school and becomes a suspect when brutal murders strike the hospital. His attempt to clear his name, aided by witness Rose Connolly, reveals a case whose secrets reach into Julia’s present-day discovery.

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  • murder
  • graphic corpse dissection
  • grave robbing
  • maternal death
  • medical trauma

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