In case you, like I, thought that spiders didn't have bones - Spider is a name. I'm not sure he is a character, because he is dead at the beginning of the story and has been for many years - or has he? A fairly fresh corpse found in Canada is identified as a man who supposedly died in Vietnam in 1968.
The background is the military operations for identifying and returning the bodies of MIAs. The main laboratory is in Hawaii and Tempe (and, one assumes, Reichs herself) worked for them for a period some years earlier.
In other news, Tempe's daughter Katy is with her in Hawaii as a change of scene after her more-than-a-friend is killed in a Taliban ambush of a humanitarian convoy. And Ryan shows up (the precipitating murder took place in his bailiwick) with his daughter, Lily, a recovering(?) drug addict. And they are all staying in the same house - predictable fireworks between the daughters, not so much between Tempe and Ryan.
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