Bones to Ashes

Forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennon works both in Quebec and North Carolina working murder cases which usually involve action, danger and old bones. In this one she's just returned to her Montreal office for the summer and gets a new case, well a new box of bones. Her job, determine if they're animal or human and if human was foul play involved. She determines they are human and that they appear to be of an adolescent. When she finds out the bones had been discovered in the Canadian Maritime Provinces that brings back memories of her childhood friend Evangeline Landry and her sister, who she played with in South Carolina when they were staying there with their aunt and uncle. Tempe and the girls were close right up until the time the girls disappeared. Her family wouldn't say why, just that it was a bad thing. Tempe is convinced the bones are tied to a crime. So she goes to the Maritimes in search of missing girls and to try and find out how the girl whose bones she in charge of died. Of course, on again, off again lover Detective Andrew Ryan, who's worked several cases involving missing girls, goes with her. And as usual Tempe finds out enough to get a killer or killers interested in what she's up to. Here, we're talking about a sociopathic killer of the first order. There's more to be sure, Tempe's in danger again and once again Kathy Reich has written an edge of your seat story that's nigh well impossible to put down. And as usual Ms. Reich's ties everything up neatly, though I didn't think it was possible. Reviewed by Vesta Irene

The TV show Bones will NEVER be as good as its mentor series of books by Kathy Reichs. She has taken the job she holds so dear and the characters she has worked with over the years and made them more than life like. The latest book makes me yearn for longer books and many more of them. The woman is amazing. I want to know more about her love life, but the work she does as a forensic anthropologist is the real thing and the cutting edge of science. Waiting with great expectations for the next part of the series. Hope it is soon.

Just back from a trip to New York, and my niece who works in the publishing industry there surprised me with a signed copy of the thriller of "Bones to Ashes." I have been a huge fan of the Temperance Brennan forensic thrillers and have been anticipating this book since I finished "Break No Bones: A Novel." Temperance's relationship with Detective Ryan has crashed and burned, so she welcomes looking into a cold case of an unidentified skeleton. The bones turn out to be of a young girl. Temperance finds her self believing they are the bones of her childhood friend who disappeared when she was 15. Now she must deal with investigating her friends death while coming to terms with her feelings for Ryan as they work on the case together. This is another winner from Reichs, who again proves she is the best in this genre. I really felt like I was cheating getting to read this book before everyone else!

I have been a huge fan of the Temperance Brennan forensic thrillers and have been anticipating this book since I finished "Break No Bones: A Novel." Temperance's relationship with Detective Ryan has crashed and burned, so she welcomes looking into a cold case of an unidentified skeleton. The bones turn out to be of a young girl. Temperance finds her self believing they are the bones of her childhood friend who disappeared when she was 15. Now she must deal with investigating her friends death while coming to terms with her feelings for Ryan as they work on the case together. This is another winner from Reichs, who again proves she is the best in this genre. I really felt like I was cheating getting to read this book before everyone else!