The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen

Preowned/ good condition.  The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen.  Copyright in 2009 by Ballantine Books.  First edition.  Large Print Format.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Pages 628.  Julia Hamill assumes the unyielding object in her stony garden is either a rock or a root until she finds herself staring into the empty eye sockets of a human skull.  Medical examiner Maura Isles soon identifies the remains as those of a woman murdered almost two centuries ago. But who was she? And who killed her?  Harvard Medical School, 1830: young med student Norris Marshall has reluctantly taken work as a resurrectionist, raiding graveyards for fresh corpses. Meanwhile, a rash of cadavers surface as a serial killer launches a reign of terror over Boston, leaving Norris a suspect.  In hopes of clearing his name, Norris enlists a classmate to help him track the maniac.  What ensues is a deadly chess match between ingenious opponents through graveyards and hidden slaughterhouses.  And now two centuries later, it's up to Maura Idles to determine how this bloody game ended.  There are no rips, tears or fold over of the pages.  There is a little yellowing along the edges of the pages.  Normal wear on the dust jacket.