Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding - not a rock but a human skull. Medical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines that the skeleton, that of a woman, dates back to the early 1800s.

"But too much time has passed," Maura warns Julia. "We may never know the whole story of how she died."

Boston in the 1830s is a place of disease and pestilence: and no one is more aware of this than Norris Marshall, a student at Harvard Medical School who is forced to support himself by performing the most secretive job of all. Norris is a resurrectionist, a body-snatcher, who procures cadavers from grave robbers in order to further his study of human anatomy. Soon he finds himself hunting the most notorious killer of his time, a shadowy figure who flits through graveyards and glittering ballrooms. What he does not realize is that the killer is far closer than he thinks.

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Listening Length	3 hours and 31 minutes
Author	Tess Gerritsen
Narrator	Laurel Lefkow
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 January 2008
Publisher	Random House AudioBooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Abridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPBE49E
Best Sellers Rank	130,220 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 10,090 in Suspense 11,908 in Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) 28,917 in Suspense Thrillers (Books)

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Chrys Matthews

Amazing

Reviewed in Australia on 12 May 2016

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Reading this book will help to see how much has changed in the medical fraternity with much of it so simple. How much did these poor people suffer from the experiments carried out by physicians in training?

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Retired, Sapphire Coast

I thoroughly enjoyed this book

Reviewed in Australia on 5 February 2016

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. First time reader of Tess Gerritsen who was recommended by a friend and I was not disappointed. I have since ordered another two books by her. I like her writing style and the twists and turns of the Bone Garden and could not put it down. Being a fan of historical novels, I particularly liked the cross over from the past to present and the accuracy and detail of that period including the medical aspects.

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Fran

the books are different to the TV show but better!!

Reviewed in Australia on 4 September 2014

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Yes, the books are different to the TV show but better!!!!

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neece

A great read.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 June 2015

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Alternating between the past and the present characters where links are eventually made.

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Trish

I really enjoyed this book

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2015

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I really enjoyed this book. Loved how it went from past to present day. Kept me totally interested. Was sad when it was over

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Merika Magnuson

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 8 April 2015

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Found character development very interesting drew me in right to the end

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Lisa

Bone Garden

Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2014

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I have only just started reading Tess Gerritsen books & really enjoyed it.
It was so different to what I usually read.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 22 March 2017

Amazing gripping read.

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Mike George

Tess, you can do better!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2018

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This is the only Tess Gerritsen book I have ever failed to finish. We all know what miserable lives many Irish immigrants to the USA lived in the early 1800s, that surgery without anaesthetic must have been unspeakably terrible, what horrors women must have endured in the crude maternity wards of the age, and how medical students learned their anatomy by dissecting rotting corpses, but I don't want to read about it in graphic detail at bed-time, or at any other time of day for that matter. Come on, Tess, you can do better than that!

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NeilT

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2020

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The main story here is set in 1830 and revolves around a young girl trying to protect her niece, a baby, from an unknown assailant. The only person who can help her is a medical student who is the chief suspect in a series of grisly killings.
The story reveals medical procedures that are now recognised as both appalling and immoral, shows how body snatching was once so important to the profession, and shows how class and bigotry affected lives so significantly.
Part of the tale is told in present time through a series of old letters from real-life doctor, poet and author, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who plays a key part in the proceedings.
Although Maura Isles makes a cameo appearance in present day, this is not a Rizzoli and Isles book.
Nicely paced, atmospheric, chilling and sad, this is a thriller well worth reading.

Mrs. Samantha M. Walker

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2017

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When I first started reading it I was a little irked that Tess 2 had stolen 2 of our greatest historical tales; Jack the Ripper and Burke & Hare. That is until I read more about the Resurrectionists in the US in the late 18th century! As for Jack the Ripper, a coincidence!
The story had me gripped early on and through to the end, with a lovely twist. Well done Tess, another triumph.

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Aileen

Fantastic breath of fresh air

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2015

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This book had me hooked after only a few pages and I could put it down till I had finished it. A fantastic insight into 1830s Boston and to Victorian Medicine. Gerritsen has pulled on her own medical knowledge fantastically to tell this tale surrounding a hospital and a group of medical students who face a race to find a serial killer terrorising the streets. This book is not typical "Rizzoli and Isles" but instead is a breath of fresh air. This book transported me back in time and the only down side was that the book had to end. I will be desperately searching for similar books set at the same time. Highly recommend.

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Reggie

A complex and intriguing story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2020

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I enjoyed reading this novel; it was a welcome change from the US police/medical examiner format I am used to expecting from Geritsen.
This has a complex complex and intriguing story-line, linking historical and present-day events in a convincing way.
Well done, Tessa Geritsen. More in a similar vein, please.

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