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Aside from being the complex framework to which human flesh and blood is inextricably linked, the skeleton provides a voluminous history of each individual when properly and meticulously examined. In her follow-up to All That Remains (2019), Black conducts a deep investigation into the bones that make us and sometimes, with violence, break us. Black’s career as a forensic anthropologist in the UK has given her a mastery of the skeleton that most would only glean from over-dramatized television portrayals. The reality, as extensively presented here, is a sometimes arduous, often stomach-churning, pursuit of the manner of various human beings’ deaths. In lively prose, Black guides morbidly curious readers through baffling crime scenes, ancient crypts, and courtroom testimony to illuminate the body of evidence bones, even the smallest fragments, can offer to forensic investigators. This enjoyable look into the skeleton is appropriately parsed into three sections focusing on the head, the body, and the limbs. Black pays tribute to the stories incised in the more than 200 bones that constitute each adult human skeleton.