Books Bones of the lost

In Bones of the Lost, the sixteenth novel in the Temperance Brennan series, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is confronted with the suspicious hit-and-run death of a teenage girl in Charlotte, North Carolina. The case deepens when the girl's purse contains the ID card of a prominent businessman who had died in a fire months earlier.

Simultaneously, Tempe is asked to examine a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies confiscated by U.S. Customs, connecting the case to a veteran accused of smuggling artifacts. The investigation quickly escalates into a complex conspiracy involving human trafficking rings that extend from South America all the way to Afghanistan, all while Tempe grapples with personal turmoil surrounding her daughter's impulsive enlistment in the Army.