A dark drama with elements of humor that follows a forensic anthropologist with an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones.
Inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, Dr. Temperance Brennan is called upon to assist law enforcement with challenging murder investigations when the discovered remains are so badly decomposed or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
Brennan teams with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper who disagrees with the use of science as a primary way to solve crimes. While Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally at first, they come to develop a chemistry that grows over time and makes them a formidable team.