Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . . Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect. To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen’s finest achievement to date.

本书记述了一名钢铁工人蜕化为具有人道关怀思想的神经外科医师的里程碑。作者以一个黑色幽默的角度看待神经外科医生的修炼历程，描绘医院里为生死博斗的悲喜剧。行文鲜活生动、风趣幽默，却又带着令人鼻酸的感伤与无奈。故事情节紧凑、明快，在时而欢笑、时而垂泪的阅读中，深刻体验医生工作的甘苦、压力与使命，病患流露出的无助、期望与感激。文中提到内科与外科的互相排斥，医生面对病患终告不治时的悲哀与痛切，医生与护士或其他医护工作人员的小小冲突磨擦等等，也是医界不断上演的戏码，不分国界。我相信，读者阅读起来，有如聆听医生的肺腑之言，文中情境也都可能发生在自己身上。在药水、针筒、电子仪器的场景中，交织成有血有泪，却又真实无比的人生，让人体悟更深、感受更强、启示更鲜明。 要知道这是官方简介。 一个从医大毕业的实习医生转变了医院的所有科，终于选择了神经外科。并且在那个拥有“疼痛博物馆”的科室，一待就是七年。