The Bone Readers By Jacob Ross. 9780751574463

Little, Brown Book Group

The Bone ReadersAuthor(s): Jacob Ross\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Little, Brown\nISBN-13: 9780751574463, 978-0751574463\nSynopsis\nWINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE\n'The Bone Readers is a page-turner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity' Guardian\nSecrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . .\nAfter standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman.\nDigger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy.\nHe has two weapons at his disposal - his skill in forensics, and Chilman's latest recruit, the mysterious, observa)