I've read several of Kathy Reichs' books with Temperance Brennan as the lead but not in order. This one came to me from a friend who lent me a whole stack of books to see me through the New Year blues and it didn't disappoint. Temperance (Temp) is a forensic anthropologist who studies bones and forensics so when a seemingly ritualistic scene is found in a dark cellar she is called in to find out how old the bones are and who they belong to. As she gets to work on this a headless corpse is also found with satanic symbols carved into it and Temp has to establish if the bodies are related somehow. With politicians and citizens blaming devil worshippers and ...  Read the complete review

The eleventh book in the Temperance Brennan series writen by Kathy Reichs, who is also jointly responsible for hit T.V series Bones loosely inspired by the characters in these novels, begins with a grisly discovery. In the abandoned sub-basement of a dilapitated building, a skull has been found along with two cauldrons filled with dirt that conceal their own hidden secrets. The whole thing looks like the site for some kind of Voodoo or Bruja ritual and it is up to Tempe to determine the age of both the bones found inside the cauldrons and the skull in order to decide whether foul play is involved. Shortly afterwards, the decapitated body of a young man wrapped in ...  Read the complete review