A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.
Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Her first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the most recent include Bones Are Forever, Flash and Bones and 206 bones.
"You’ll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to
find out what happens next … Reichs’ real-life expertise gives her
novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill
for "
*Daily Express*
"With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an
expert"
*Sunday Express*
"Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on
psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot,
make [her novels] a must read"
*Jeffery Deaver*
"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs"
*Daily News*
"A truly impressive writer"
*We Love This Book*
Forensic scientist Tempe Brennan isn't happy: it's freezing in Montreal, her detective boyfriend is giving her the cold shoulder and her macho colleagues won't take her seriously. When Reichs's heroine is called in to examine three skeletons discovered in the basement of a pizza parlor at the start of the seventh installment in this popular series, her instincts tell her a crime was recently committed. Chauvinistic homicide detective Luc Claudel doesn't agree, but Tempe forges ahead and soon discovers that the victims are young women, probably teenagers killed sometime in the 1980s. Already feeling vulnerable because she's left her beloved daughter, Katy, back home in North Carolina, Tempe is further troubled by the indifference of formerly avid lover Andrew Ryan (another Montreal detective). Meanwhile, new developments lead Tempe and her reluctant colleagues to suspect a creepy former pawn store owner of serial kidnappings, torture and grisly murder. What's best about Reichs, and often unappreciated in reviews, is not the informative detail that she brings to Tempe's forensic sleuthing, though that's certainly engrossing. It's the same well-observed detail and incisive analysis applied to other aspects of the story. Tempe deconstructs Ryan's every evasive gesture and casual comment and describes an ominously darkened room, the glow from a UV light and an armada of snow plows with vivid precision. Here, as previously, readers will be as invested in Tempe's life as in her case. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. (June 15) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"You'll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to
find out what happens next ... Reichs' real-life expertise gives
her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would
kill for " * Daily Express *
"With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an
expert" * Sunday Express *
"Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on
psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot,
make [her novels] a must read" * Jeffery Deaver *
"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs" * Daily News *
"A truly impressive writer" * We Love This Book *
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