The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.
Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her first book, Dej Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel. She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the most recent include Bones Are Forever, Flash and Bones and 206 bones.
"You’ll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to
find out what happens next … Reichs’ real-life expertise gives her
novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill
for "
*Daily Express*
"Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on
psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot,
make [her novels] a must read"
*Jeffery Deaver*
"With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an
expert"
*Sunday Express*
"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs"
*Daily News*
"A truly impressive writer"
*We Love This Book*
Linda Emond's crisp and dry vocal interpretation of Reichs's Temperance Brennan, crime fiction's second most popular forensic expert, is on target. The cool approach works fine when the "5'5", feisty and 40-plus" heroine describes stumbling into a dark basement and finding a witches' brew of pagan artifacts and human and animal remains. It lets Temperance and the listener calmly contemplate her jumbled, alcohol-prone, romantically impaired life. And it helps in sorting out the clues for several gruesome killings that may or may not be connected and may or may not involve what one character describes as a "murderous devil conspiracy." But even Emond can't make Reichs's endless side trips into North Carolina history, geographical key notes and descriptions of the roots of voodoo and the Wicca religion sound anything but academic. Spare us the lectures; there's more than enough plot without the unnecessary digressions. A Scribner hardcover (Reviews, June 9). (Sept.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
"You'll want to keep turning the pages long after lights out to
find out what happens next ... Reichs' real-life expertise gives
her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would
kill for " * Daily Express *
"Reichs' seamless blending of fascinating science and dead-on
psychological portrayals, not to mention a whirlwind of a plot,
make [her novels] a must read" * Jeffery Deaver *
"With Kathy Reichs the reader knows they're in the hands of an
expert" * Sunday Express *
"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs" * Daily News *
"A truly impressive writer" * We Love This Book *
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