โ Scribed by Kathy Reichs
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The success of the Fox TV show Bones, based on bestseller Reichs's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (Cross Bones, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who's a lawyer, appears in town, pursuing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each otherand her ex-husband's inquiry. Reichs's down-to-earth heroine is an appealing creation, who deftly juggles personal problems with professional challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution, this novel confirms the series' place in the front rank of the ever-expanding forensic thriller subgenre. (July)
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
In this ninth in the popular series, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending two weeks in May on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, where she is leading a student excavation of a prehistoric site when one of the bodies they find isn't so ancient. After reporting her find to her friend Emma Rousseau, coroner at the Charleston County Coroner's Office, Tempe learns that Emma is ill and unable to investigate; so Tempe fills in for her as a consultant. When another body is found in a different location, the forensic examination of the bones shows a similarity in the manner of death. As Tempe investigates further, another body turns up, leading her to a horrifying conclusion about the motive for these deaths. Complicating matters, Tempe's estranged husband moves into the house she has borrowed, and her boyfriend arrives unexpectedly from Montreal. Tempe must work through her ambivalence about divorcing her unfaithful husband, for whom she still has feelings, but she also cares for her boyfriend. Readers who enjoy Patricia Cornwell's mysteries will appreciate the forensic detail here, and more character-oriented readers will respond to Reichs' likable and well-developed cast, from the local sheriff to Tempe herself, a dedicated woman who feels compelled to provide justice for those who can no longer speak for themselves. An engrossing entry in a widely read series. Sue O'Brien
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Following the tremendous success of \*Cross Bones, \*Kathy Reichs explores another high-profile topic in Break No Bones -- a case that lands forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the middle of a gruesome international scheme. Summoned to South Carolina to fill in
### From Publishers Weekly The success of the Fox TV show *Bones*, based on bestseller Reichs's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (\_Cross Bones\_, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. Wh
It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach... The skeleton is arti
### From Publishers Weekly The success of the Fox TV show *Bones*, based on bestseller Reichs's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (\_Cross Bones\_, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. Wh
From bestselling author Kathy Reichs a book set in Charleston, South Carolina, the center of a lucrative, clandestine, sophisticated trade in body parts, the kind that leaves the donor dead. Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, Tempe is stuck teaching a lackluster archa
On the second-to-last day of archaeological field school Dr Temperance Brennan's students are working on prehistoric graves when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave. It's obvious the burial is recent. The dental remains, skeletal gender and race indicators suggest the body is that of