Like Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist and so is her heroine, Temperance Brennan, but her books, and this one – Bones to Ashes- [ISBN 978 0 09 949236 8] particularly is much better than Cornwell of late. The science is excellent (sometimes rather laboured and over-detailed as if she MUST show her knowledge) and the plot good, but a little contrived in parts, though the narrative moves along OK.
Like Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist and so is her heroine, Temperance Brennan, but her books, and this one – Bones to Ashes- [ISBN 978 0 09 949236 8] particularly is much better than Cornwell of late. The science is excellent (sometimes rather laboured and over-detailed as if she MUST show her knowledge) and the plot good, but a little contrived in parts, though the narrative moves along OK.
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has the skeleton of a young girl – and she remembers her childhood friend who went missing at age 14. Detective Andrew Ryan is investigating three cases – three missing persons and three unidentified bodies – all young females. Is Tempe’s skeleton one of the same series ? She carries on investigating the bones and all kinds of things are stirred up in her own past.
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