The Truth Under the Skin

Jane Hall and Styli Lander — forensic anthropologists. Their private agency specializes in forensic analysis of unidentified bodies. Even the smallest detail on a dead body is a clue for them, capable of leading to the discovery of the deceased's... identity and the mystery of their death.
In the University of California, a buried body is accidentally discovered. The head of the university's cultural studies department, acquainted with Jane and Styli, calls them for a preliminary examination. They determine that the body belongs to a young man aged about sixteen to twenty. But then something horrifying is revealed…
The victim's death was agonizing. Muscle paralysis, yet the boy remained conscious. As if the injection used in capital punishment did not take effect immediately. Essentially, it was a torture. And the rare substances used for it were employed in a long-ago murder on the other side of the country. Everything points to a serial killer. Which means this victim — is not the last one…