A passionate team of trained forensic investigators, led by Gil Grissom, is back to solve crimes the old-fashioned way - by scouring the scene, collecting the evidence, and finding the missing pieces needed to solve the mystery.

Horatio Caine and his state-of-the-art forensics team investigate Miami crimes using cold hard facts.

Although the team solves some of their most challenging cases yet, madman Christopher Pelant continues his murderous rampage, inching closer to Bones and Booth daily. From solving the mystery of a roller derby darling's demise to uncovering a previously unrecognized 9/11 hero to stopping a pandemic, Bones and the team make one remarkable discovery after another.

June 1998, in the sleepy town of Jasper, TX, three young, self-styled white supremacists overpower a 49-year-old black man named James Byrd Jr., chain him to the back of their pickup, and literally drag him to death. As the frenzy of the media continues, the relationship between the white and black residents of Jasper is severely strained. Two decent men are at the center of the investigation: R.C. Horn, the first black mayor of Jasper, and Billy...