The Talking Bone

Ruby Spencer is known as "the exonerator." As an investigator, she works to free innocent men from death row, and she is very good at it. Fewer people know that she also spends her time looking for missing women. An orphan whose mother was an orphan too, Ruby feels a natural kinship with people the world has treated badly. Her latest case takes her to Georgia, where a man is due to be executed in two weeks. What starts as a routine exoneration sends her down an unexpectedly winding path. As she pursues the truth, she uncovers crimes that lead to startling revelations about her own life. With time running out, her search for answers may put her in danger.