Reichs does not disappoint. Here the title is key to the story. As survivors of high school biology should remember, the human body has 206 bones. For once, Tempe finds all of those bones at a gravesite - and is properly amazed. But someone steals some of the bones - then others are substituted and the identity of the deceased is called into question.
Gradually it develops that someone is out to get Tempe by discrediting her professionally as not just this one, but several of her cases are called into question. Of course, it is obvious from page one that someone is out to get her because chapters are headed with italicized passages about Tempe's attempts to get out of the tomb in which she has been buried alive. The two narrative lines do eventually close with each other and the careful reader is satisfied but not surprised by the identity of the conspirators.
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