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 at Charlotte. Her first book, Dej 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.
Here, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan's big concern isn't new bones but old ones: the victim she's examining putatively traded in black-market antiquities, and his case leads her to Israel and what might be the crypt of the holy family. With an eight-city tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Tempe" Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she's called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris's gunshot death is murder or suicide. An acquaintance of Avram suggests the former: he hands Tempe a photograph of a skeleton, taken in Israel in 1963, and insists it's the reason Avram is dead. Tempe's longtime boyfriend, Quebecois detective Andrew Ryan, is also involved with the case, so the duo head to Israel where they attempt to solve the murder and a mystery revolving around a first-century tomb that may contain the remains of the family of Jesus Christ. This find threatens the worldwide Christian community, the Israeli and Jewish hierarchy and numerous illegal antiquity dealers, any of whom might be out to kill Tempe and Ryan. Not that Tempe notices. She has the habit of being oblivious to danger, which quickly becomes annoying, as does Reichs's tendency to end chapters with a heavy-handed cliffhanger ("His next words sent ice up my spine"). The plot is based on a number of real-life anthropological mysteries, and fans of such will have a good time, though thriller readers looking for chills and kills may not find the novel quite as satisfying. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. (June) Copyright 2005 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 *
"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 *
"With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an
expert" * Sunday Express *
"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs" * Daily News *
"A truly impressive writer" * We Love This Book *
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