WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE''The Bone Readers is a page-turner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity'' GuardianSecrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael ''Digger'' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman.Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman''s obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young manBut Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy.He has two weapons at his disposal - his skill in forensics, and Chilman''s latest recruit, the mysterious, observant Miss Stanislaus. Together, the two find themselves dragged into a world of dangerous secrets that demands every ounce of their courage to survive.This award-winning crime debut by highly accla