This is the eighth Temperance Brennan book by Kathy Reichs. Most books center between one of two places, Montreal and the Southern US. This book starts in Montreal and the reconstruction of an Orthodox Jews face after he had been shot. A picture of a skeleton draws Tempe in and makes her question. Many things happen, but she ends up with the skeleton that is from the 1st century Israel. She ends up flying to Jerusalem with Ryan to take the skeleton back. Enter Jake Drum the scholar that she has known for two decades, and the drama of the contested city. The skeleton is stolen, her room is gone through, and she discovers another skeleton with even more controversial history than Max (the first skeleton). The next week is fraught with danger and Tempe must save her friends and ends up solving the all the murders with one demented conversation. As they cross the Atlantic she tries to reconcile what was thought to happen with her historical knowledge. This is another great mystery that brings a new element into it.