This is a mystery, a Temperance Brennan novel (the main character on the TV series "Bones". " Devil Bones, the 11th novel in the series featuring anthropologist, Dr. Temperance (Tempe) Brennan, finds Dr. Brennan called to the scene of a grisly discovery in the sub-basement of a Charlotte, North Carolina house that being renovated. The scene includes a cauldron, a recently deceased chicken, beads, statues, and a human skull and femur. Also included in the pot is a photograph of a light-skinned teenage girl of mixed race. Could it be her skull that was found in the cauldron?"