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Violence
Some
Murder investigation and some thriller violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of religious controversy and the gap between historical fact and religious narrative
What this book is about
The eighth Temperance Brennan novel begins with a gunshot victim connected to a skeleton that may be linked to early Christian history — specifically, to the bones of the historical Jesus. Kathy Reichs's crime series meets The Da Vinci Code territory, with Brennan's forensic expertise applied to questions that have been controversial for two millennia.
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Thriller violence
Religious controversy themes
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