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In the run up to the biggest NASCAR race week of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in North Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened asphalt with a human hand poking through the top. With the country's press... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Cotton Galimore: A former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police detective, who is head of security at Charlotte Motor Speedway
- Craig Bogan: Cale Lovett's father
- Cindi Gamble: Wayne Gamble's sister
- Cale Lovette: Cindi Gamble's boyfriend
- John Doe: An unknown person found in a barrel filled with asphalt.
- Charlie Hunt: UNC-Chapel Hill Law Public Defender and budding love interest for Tempe Brennan.
- Carl Williams: FBI Special Agent
- Wayne Gamble: Cindi Gamble's brother/Jackman for Stupak's 59 car
- Pete: Ex-husband of Temperance Brennan
- Joe Hawkins: MCME Death Investigator
- J. D. Danner: leader of the Patriot's Posse
- Maddy Padgett: Cindi Gamble's friend
- Eddie Rinaldi: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD Felony Investigative Bureau Homicide Unit/killed in line of duty
- Lynn Marie Hobbs: Cindi Gamble's friend
- Andrew Ryan: SQ Homicide Detective and occasional love interest for Tempe Brennan.
- Ted Raines: Missing CDC worker who disappeared right before the Nascar race
- Dr. Tim Larabee: Mecklenberg Co Medical Examiner
- Dr. Temperance Brennan: Forensic anthropologist
- Eddie: Worker at the track who claims to have seen Cindy and Cale later than what a previous witness claimed
- Sandy Stupak: Racecar driver Wayne Gamble works for
- Percy Randall: FBI Special Agent who remains pretty silent throughout the novel - for good reason.
- Weaver Molene: Works with Temperance Brennan at the Medical Examiner's Office
- Barcelona Jackson: Nascar, murder and so many suspects... No Ryan? :(
- Owen Timothy Poteat: Claimed to have seen Cale in an airport ten days after he first went missing
- Bogan: A racist, misogynist who is a most unpleasant person.
- Katherine Lovette: Daughter of Temperance Brennan and Pete
- Harry Brennan: Sister of Temperance Brennan
- Jacques Villeneuve: French-Canadian driver for Nascar that Ryan greatly admires
- Barry Byrd: Add a description of this character.
- Susan Volpe
- Jimmie Johnson
- Joey Frank
- Ethel Bradford
- Ellen
- Cale Yarborough
- Bill France
- Eugene Fries
- Eli Hand
- Harley
- Eric Rudolph
- Officer Warner
- Rupert
- Gordie Lashner
- Harold
- Sarah Elizabeth
- Erskine Slidell
- Boler
- Kermit Posey
- Boyd
- Reta Yountz
- Earl Byrne
- Mrs. Flowers
- Erwin Baker
- Joey Logano
- Grady Winge
- Richard Petty
- Lily
- Mickey Reno
- Were Gamble
- Disregarding Slidell
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Looking back, I think of it as race week in the rain.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 14 of 15 in Temperance Brennan Novels. (standard series)
Preceded by Spider Bones, and followed by Bones Are Forever.
This book is in 2011 Published Books. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kathy Reichs (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: United States
Publication Date: August 23, 2011
ISBN: 1439102414
Page Count: 271
Publisher: Scribner
Country: United States
Publication Date: August 23, 2011
ISBN: 1439102414
Page Count: 271
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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