{"product_id":"the-bone-orchard-case-michelle-hoffmann-9798246974506","title":"The Bone Orchard Case: A Supernatural Crime Thriller of Mythic Justice and Buried Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Andean highlands, the dead aren't kept in cemeteries. They're buried in terraced orchards-beneath fruit trees, stone walls, and a ritual calendar outsiders dismiss as superstition. In San Jerónimo, the living survive by keeping certain names unspoken. Certain histories unasked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a famous foreign documentarian arrives-and people start dying in ways that match the town's oldest punishment myths. A missing tongue. Ash-filled eyes. Threads binding hands like a loom's cruel lesson. The town calls it folklore. The state calls it hysteria. But Prosecutor Lucía Rivera sees the pattern nobody wants to admit: every victim once took part in a long-buried atrocity from the civil conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lucía digs into sealed records and vanishing evidence, the orchard turns into a threshold-and the dead begin to \"testify\" under strict conditions: a ritual date, a spoken name, a personal item... and a cost. With political pressure mounting and her own family tied to the past, Lucía must decide what truth is worth when justice is no longer symbolic, and accountability doesn't come clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause in San Jerónimo, the supernatural never replaces human guilt.\u003cbr\u003eIt drags it into the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of\u003c\/b\u003e dark international thrillers, folklore-driven mysteries, and morally complex crime fiction where the past refuses to stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Hoffmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798246974506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Michelle Hoffmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172125810943,"sku":"9798246974506","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bone-orchard-case-michelle-hoffmann-9798246974506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}