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Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs


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Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs

 
Description: ISBN 0434014621 / Author: Kathy Reichs / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... girls, long given up on and forgotten. He has three bodies that he needs to identify and turns to the woman with whom only ... more

 ... recently he maintained a relationship. Now that relationship is strained, but a gruesome case that includes child pornography soon pulls them back together though each is obsessed with their own personal demons; Ryan in dealing with his drug addicted daughter, Tempe with her cold case that could possibly be the answer to her missing friend, Evangeline, whom she has been searching for all these years.... Bones is perhaps best disguised as one of the weakest of the series so far with it's often hard-to-believe coin...more

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sparkymarky1973
Premium Review Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs: The hip bones connected to the thigh bone.... (686 words)
by - written on 10/06/09 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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In what is the tenth novel to feature Forensic Anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, we finally get to see a little of what makes our heroine tick. Asked by a colleague to examine some bones that have been kept for years, almost as a mascot, by a Detective with a morbid curiosity, Tempe finds herself flashing back to her childhood and a friend who disappeared one summer never to be heard from again. The bones in question belong to a female no older than 14 years old and seem to be marked with scars reminiscent of some kind of infection. Amidst a busy case-load, Tempe is told to work on the bones in her own free time and this leads her into an investigation that ultimately ...  Read the complete review

brokenangel
Crowned Review my interest soon disintegrated (871 words)
by - written on 11/01/09 (Very useful, 81 readings)
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The back cover claims that this novel is primarily about a skeleton: 'that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old'. In fact, the novel as a whole seems to be an opportunity for Reichs to display her extensive knowledge of forensic anthropology as it is full of skeletons, a couple of which are completely irrelevant to the main plot. These skeletons are discussed in a manner that is usually accessible, but sometimes the discussion (of diatoms, for example) just became too long-winded, scientific and dull to keep my interest. The science behind death and bodies can be fascinating - I love watching CSI, for example - but Reichs seems to forget that the details are ...  Read the complete review

 

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