"If the bodies were there, I couldn't find them." Chapter 1, pg. 11

"Fear has a redeeming quality. It drives away fatigue." Chapter 1, pg. 23

"I have lived in the south all of my adult life. It can never be too hot for me. I love the beach in August, sundresses, ceiling fans, the smell of children's sweaty hair, the sound of bugs at window screens. Yet I spend my summers and school breaks in Quebec. Most months during the academic year, I fly from Charlotte, North Carolina, where I am on the anthropology faculty at the university to work at the medicolegal lab in Montreal. This is a distance of approximately twelve hundred miles. Due north." Chapter 2, pg. 25

"I felt relief, but some confusion. This was a single, fully grown victim. Or was it? Infant bones are tiny and extremely fragile. They could easily be hidden below. I prayed I'd...