01741cam a2200301 4500 1022381304 TxAuBib 20120322120000.0 980831s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007-029888 9780345497604 acid-free paper 0345497600 acid-free paper (OCoLC)156892030 7512 7512 7512 TxAuBib Gerritsen, Tess. The bone garden : a novel / Tess Gerritsen. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2007. 370 p. ; 25 cm. 38-year-old divorcée Julia Hamill discovers a skeleton buried in the garden of the Boston house she's just moved into; the ring found with the remains was in fashion in the 1830s, the fractured bones suggest murder. Flashback to 1830: medical student Norris Marshall, an outcast among his wealthier classmates, meets Rose Connolly in a Boston maternity ward, where Rose's sister recently died of childbirth fever. When several gutted bodies turn up in deserted alleyways, Rose and Norris are the only ones to catch a glimpse of the killer, dubbed the West End Reaper. Norris, Rose and Norris's fellow student, Oliver Wendell Holmes, race to uncover the truth behind the slayings, which will remind many of Jack the Ripper's crimes. In the present, Julia is able to trace their progress with the help of a relative of the house's former owner. 20071025. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Medical examiners (Law) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Psychological fiction. TXNES