Description

Series: Book 14 in the Temperance Brennan series

Rating: Not rated

Tags: Fiction

Summary

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 Brennans office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gambles 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 Cindis? Or Cales?

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...