Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs

The ninth installment in the highly popular and best-selling Tempe Brennan series of novels written by real-life forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs carries on in the tradition of it's predescessors with another gripping and ingenious mystery that begs to be solved. Tempe is on a controversial archeological dig with students when she encounters a decomposed body too recent to be part of the excavation. Reporting the possible suspicious death to her best friend and local coroner, Emma Rousseau, Tempe discovers her friend is terminally ill and unable to investigate further as she struggles to hide the seriousness of her illness from her colleagues. As a ...

I am a fan of American TV shows and have been known to rent or buy entire box sets and watch them in a couple of weeks. As a rule I like science fiction, but am also partial to some good quality crime drama like ‘CSI’. Therefore, when I spotted a new series that was made by Fox (the people behind ‘The X Files’) and starred David Boreanaz (who used to play Angel in ‘Angel’) I was very much intrigued. ‘Bones’ followed the adventures of a Dr Temperance Brenann, an anthropologist who works for a museum, but is regularly asked to help the FBI investigate skeletons. It did not take me long to realise that the characters in the series were based on a set of popular books by ...