After reading it this summer, Kathy Reichs has become one of my favorite authors. She is a forensic anthropologist and her novels about "what ifs" from her unusual line of work inspired the FOX drama, Bones.
In her 2007 instalment in the Temperance Brennan series, Tempe must solve a string of deaths from several badly decomposed skeletons that popped up in Quebec, where the book is set. One set of remains sends her for a ride down not-so-fond memory lane. The remains fit all the markers of a missing person (MP) whose description matches exactly that of her child hood friend, Evangeline Landry.
The story line is not always easy to follow, but a small dose of logic and a short time of thinking will get the reader back on track. Most of the forensic terms are defined and the ones that are not are easy to find if the reader breaks down the roots of the word.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Bones, but also to those who enjoy a good mystery. People like fans of Agatha Christie would definitely like the story. However, the book does have some mature content, but nothing too out of the ordinary, as the book does describe roting corpses and some other things the every day person may not find so pleasant, but it is nothing that anyone over the age of thirteen hasn't heard before.
As the story is based off things that could have happened, there are not metaphors or similes that are blatantly obvious. In the writing, a leprosy epidemic is just a leprosy epidemic and nothing more.
Over all, this book is great and was an enjoyable and fast paced read.
In her 2007 instalment in the Temperance Brennan series, Tempe must solve a string of deaths from several badly decomposed skeletons that popped up in Quebec, where the book is set. One set of remains sends her for a ride down not-so-fond memory lane. The remains fit all the markers of a missing person (MP) whose description matches exactly that of her child hood friend, Evangeline Landry.
The story line is not always easy to follow, but a small dose of logic and a short time of thinking will get the reader back on track. Most of the forensic terms are defined and the ones that are not are easy to find if the reader breaks down the roots of the word.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Bones, but also to those who enjoy a good mystery. People like fans of Agatha Christie would definitely like the story. However, the book does have some mature content, but nothing too out of the ordinary, as the book does describe roting corpses and some other things the every day person may not find so pleasant, but it is nothing that anyone over the age of thirteen hasn't heard before.
As the story is based off things that could have happened, there are not metaphors or similes that are blatantly obvious. In the writing, a leprosy epidemic is just a leprosy epidemic and nothing more.
Over all, this book is great and was an enjoyable and fast paced read.
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