{{Short description|Book by Patricia Cornwell}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = The Bone Bed | title_orig = | translator = | image = The Bone Bed.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Patricia Cornwell | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = Kay Scarpetta Mysteries | genre = Crime novel | publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons | release_date = 2012 | media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback) | pages = 463 (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 978-1-4087-0344-1 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) | dewey = | congress = | oclc = 213308424 | preceded_by = Red Mist | followed_by = Dust }}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}'''''The Bone Bed''''' is novel by Patricia Cornwell. It was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 2012. The book is a continuation of Cornwell's popular Kay Scarpetta series.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-10-15 |title=The Bone Bed' |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/patricia-cornwell/bone-bed/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Brownworth|first=Victoria|date=2013-04-02|title='The Bone Bed' by Patricia Cornwell|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2013/04/the-bone-bed-by-patricia-cornwell/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-13|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Centorcelli|first=Kristin|title=The Bone Bed|url=https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/2916-the-bone-bed|access-date=2020-09-13|website=Mystery Scene}}</ref>
==Synopsis== A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why.
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