Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble’s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi’s? Or Cale’s?
At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can’t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?
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#10 · 2007Bones to Ashes 
#11 · 2008Devil Bones 
#12 · 2009206 Bones 
#13 · 2010Spider Bones 
#14 · 2011Flash and Bones 
#15 · 2012Bones Are Forever 
#15.5 · 2013Bones in Her Pocket 
#16 · 2013Bones of the Lost 
#16.5 · 2014Swamp Bones 
#17 · 2014Bones Never Lie 
#17.5 · 2015Bones on Ice 
#18 · 2015Speaking in Bones 
#19 · 2020A Conspiracy of Bones 
#20 · 2021The Bone Code 
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