Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Chocolate-covered helium - another circus of airheads.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Watson to Archy's Bertie Wooster, get caught in the cross fire between ailing majority stockholder Sarah Whitcomb's husband, Horace, and their franchise-minded son, Oliver, for control of the company, and Archy, whose prose style (Yikes! but Connie looked super) continues in the great tradition of the Class Notes column of a 1955 prep school, has time for coy descriptions of some terrific meals and some great-looking women, in and out of clothes. A child of ten could see where this is all going, and eventually so does Archy - but not before he and Binky Watrous, who plays Dr. Before he can down so much as a fuzzy navel, brainy Archy's already realized that an awful lot of Whitcomb's business involves sending coffins out of state, and Sunny, who owns a body as solid as the figurehead of a Yankee clipper, takes time out from their bed chat to confirm that Whitcomb's shipments to Boston, New York, and Chicago have all been on the rise. Why have the receipts of Whitcomb's Funeral Homes gone through the roof, even though deaths in Palm Beach have followed a flat curve? Chief financial officer Sunny Fogarty wants Whitcomb's lawyer, Prescott McNally, to answer that question, and McNally naturally passes the ball to his layabout son, Archy (McNally's Caper, not reviewed, etc.).
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