Kathy Reichs, creator of the hit television show and mystery series,
Bones, brings her bestselling blend of science and suspense to teens with the first in a new series,
Virals. Tory is the science-obsessed niece of a famous forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan (star of the
Bones program and novels), living on a remote island off the coast of South Carolina. An old military ID tag leads Tory and her best friends, Ben, Hi, and Shelton--all self proclaimed “sci-philes”--to an illegal research lab, where they are exposed to a mutant strain of canine parvovirus. When the teens begin experiencing preternatural physical changes, their search for answers brings them in contact with cold-blooded killers. Reichs’s characters are realistically drawn modern teenagers, and the state-of-the-art forensic details give this thriller an added edge.
