Mark Totty

When the decaying corpse of the Venezuelan Ambassador's son is found hanging from a tree on the campus of an exclusive private school, Dr. Temperance Brennan and Agent Seeley Booth are called in to investigate. The cause of death seems to be suicide, but both Brennan and Booth suspect there may be an alternative cause of death.

Gideon, Hotchner and their team race across the South in pursuit of a chameleonlike killer.

Lightman faces off with the leader of a self-help empire to free a wealthy woman who may be under the control of the cultlike leader; Lightman suspects the group of threatening him and his daughter.