Bones | Jonathan Kellerman | kharidobechobooks

Bones plunges consulting psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis into a chilling hunt for an insidious serial killer prowling the streets of Los Angeles. []

The nightmare begins when an anonymous caller tips off an eco-volunteer about a body buried deep within L.A.’s Bird Marsh nature preserve. Investigating the area, the police discover a grim graveyard holding the decaying remains of multiple young women. While most of the victims are identified as local prostitutes, the latest body completely breaks the profile. She is Selena Bass, a brilliant, young, classically trained classical musician from the East Coast. Selena was employed by a wealthy, elusive high-society family to tutor their musical prodigy child. Ominously, her blue-blood employers have entirely vanished, and their jittery estate caretaker raises instant red flags. As Delaware and Sturgis look beyond a traditional serial killer profile, they uncover a highly devious, sophisticated mind operating from a dark place of deep corporate wealth and buried secrets. [, 3, 4]