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The Bone Chamber
Sydney Fitzpatrick Series, No 2

by Robin Burcell

     

Sydney Fitzpatrick, FBI forensic artist, is summoned to Quantico to help recreate the face of a murdered and mutilated woman. The woman is identified as an archaeology student and the daughter of the US ambassador to the Holy See. Sydney realizes that this is not an ordinary case when she is abruptly dismissed from the case after the hit and run death of a colleague working with her. This abrupt dismissal demands answers.

She decides to investigate on her own and teams up with covert government agent Zach Griffin. Their hunt takes them to Rome, where they search for the "third key" to which her colleague had alluded. The third key is believed to lead to a map, buried in a crypt in Rome, which will show the way to a fabled treasure of the Knight Templars. During their hunt they find connections to bioterrorists, a bad guy named Carlo Adami, and a Freemason conspiracy against the government.

This is a tense and intriguing story. It follows a chain of real events that reach back to the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a tale of intrigue, black ops, the FBI, the CIA, the Knights Templar, the Freemasons and old and new world mafia figures. There is murder, corruption and manipulation with government power not just in the past but in our time as well. This has everything the reader can desire to keep his interest.

The Book

Poisoned Pen Press
December 2009
Hardcover
9781590583753
Mystery
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2010
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