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Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: William Heinemann London
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 374
Yes, another Kathy Reichs book to replace my fixation for the TV show. It seems like an odd sequence to read, from a 2011 book to a 2009 book.
This novel begins with the protagonist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, stuck in a dark, cold tunnel - a captivating way to attract your readers. But before being placed there, Brennan and Lieutenant Andrew Ryan were in the process of investigating an elderly heiress' corpse, which Brennan was accused of mishandling the autopsy (she's a forensic anthropologist, not a pathologist!). In the middle of the novel, three more women are murdered and Brennan receives mysterious phone calls and threats. She suspects that those threats must be coming from her irritated neighbor or her ambitious pathologist rival, but the terrorist turns out to be unexpected.
I wouldn't consider this novel to be one of the best crime novels out there since Dr. Reich's way of taking Brennan's captivity story back and forth from different chapters is confusing, since I enjoy a book which stays in one continuous chronological structure.
Personally again, I do not recommend this book for first-time readers of Dr. Reichs, but for people who have read about four or five books from the Tempe Brennan series, since there are parts of the Brennan-Ryan love story.
- M ★
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