Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so.
136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that's as lethal today as it was a century ago.
As the winter snows fall, Corrie's life depends on unravelling a dark secret... the key to which may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it.
I enjoyed this Pendergast novel quite a bit, as it was a great return to form after the not-so-thrilling Helen trilogy. I liked that his protege Corrie featured so prominently, and that the two of them were able to solve an interesting mystery without Pendergast's personal history getting in the way.
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