A new, exclusive straight-to-digital Temperance Brennan short story fromKathy Reichs, world leading forensic anthropologist and No.1 bestselling author ofDéjà Dead,Bones of the LostandBones Never Lie.

The daughter of a wealthy and influential Charleston family has been missing on Mt Everest for three years. Presumed dead, her remains had been irretrievable until an earthquake caused her body to move down the mountain.

The family want only one person to identify her remains: Tempe Brennan.

Though reluctant to take the case, Tempe soon realises that the girl did not die of natural causes. It seems the victim was murdered and all her fellow climbers fall under suspicion.

But which one is the killer? And if Tempe gets too close to the truth, will they kill again?

Alsogives readers the first chance to read the opening chapters of Kathys highly anticipated new Temperance Brennan novel,Speaking in Bones, out in July.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerising forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Kathy Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Kathy Reichs has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A native of Chicago, she now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.

Kathy Reichs's first novelDéjà Deadcatapulted her to fame when it became aNew York Timesbestseller, aSunday Timesbestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. All eleven of her novels have been international bestsellers. She is also a producer of the chilling hit TV seriesBones. She has written seventeen bestsellers featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, the most recent beingBones Never Lie.She has also written four bestsellers featuring Tory Brennan:Virals,Seizure, CodeandExposure.