The Bone Garden is a 2007 novel written by Chinese-American novelist Tess Gerritsen, loosely part of the Jane Rizzoli / Maura Isles series.

In the present, recently divorced 38-year-old Julia Hamill, trying to plant a garden for her newly purchased rural Massachusetts home finds a female skull buried in the rocky soil.

She contacts medical examiner Maura Isles who finds it scarred with the marks of murder but can discover no more due to the skull's age.

Rose, Norris and his classmate Oliver Wendell Holmes comb the city, from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and power centers, to track down the killer.

Central to the plot is the condition of maternity wards at the time: doctors often walked in from the autopsy area to the "lying-in" wards, and handle the women without using gloves (let alone antisepsis, which Holmes later suggested) putting the women at higher risk of childbirth deaths than if they had given birth attended by midwives, or even unattended.