10. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

Audio read by Susan Denaker

(12:55)

2007, Random House

370 pgs.

Written for adults

Finished 3/20/13

Genre: Historical Fiction

Goodreads Rating: 3.96

My Rating It was okay (2)

Acquired TPPL

Setting: 1830 Boston (with some present-day Boston suburb and southern Maine)

My comments: Nope, This one just didn't do it for me. The huge amount of coincidences in the plotline, knowing pretty much what was going to happen, characters that are either goody goody goody or rotten rotten rotten, huge amounts of stereotyping, and absolutely no joy - there are so many better mysteries out there. I read this for book group, and will be interested to see what other people thought.

Goodreads Review:  Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . . 

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.