The Talking Bone

Rene Denfeld reminds us that storytelling remains one of the most powerful means we have of confronting our darkest human impulses and sometimes overcoming them.Washington Post From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thrillerinspired by her real life work exonerating innocents,a novel that asks how far well go in our pursuit of the truthan emotionally rich, luminously written book about evil and people trying to do good in the world. Ruby Spencer is known as the exonerator. Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and shes good at what she does. What many people dont know is that she spends her time finding missing women, too. The orphaned daughter of an orphaned mother, Ruby feels a natural affinity for those who have been mistreated by the world at large. Her newest case takes her to Georgia, and involves a man set to be executed in two weeks. What begins as a routine exoneration unexpectedly sends Ruby down a winding path. Pursuing the truth, she begins to uncover crimes that lead to startling revelations about her own life. With time running out, will Rubys search for answers ultimately lead her to danger?