When she stumbles upon a recent skeleton among the ancient bones, she starts asking questions. The skeleton leads her to a free street clinic where patients have begun to go missing, and some have wound up dead. What is going on and who is to blame? The charismatic televangelist who oversees the clinic? The charismatic televangelist who oversees the clinic? The shady doctor who practices there? Or is it the clinic staff? Ryan is in Montreal, though he may come down for a visit.
If he does, Tempe will have to juggle him and Detective Galiano, an old flame, who is in town investigating the disappearance of wealthy young woman. The book was published in multiple languages including , consists of pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this fantasy, fantasy story are ,. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Even her sister gets involved, not to mention a young female relative can we say Kay Scarpetta's niece?
In fact, the majority of this book comes even closer to a rip-off of that other series, but closer to the lousy writing near the end of the Scarpetta series than the tight stories that launched the female coroner genre. The story starts in Montreal, and then moves to Carolina, and then eventually back again to the Montreal area. Unlike the first book, you never get the same sense of place..
First, and most important, I hate the way it mirrors the Kay Scarpetta stories, essentially ripping-off the work that has gone before. Second, Reichs has a really bad habit -- trying to build suspense and mystery by an old trick of hiding certain things. At least two major "clues" in the sub-stories are not revealed, instead having Temperance kind of taunt the reader in a I-know-but-the-reader-won't-until-I-feel-like-revealing-it-to-them.
None of the "clues" are that big, nor are they worth waiting for, and the reader is just left feeling irritated and cheated by the story. Either the waiting has to be worth it, by making the news so unbelievable that you say "WOW! Finally, I have to say that not only is this book not particularly great, it is a real let-down from the first one. It reads like Reichs threw it together from two separate stories, and with a lot of extra characters thrown in, none of which are any more than wooden extras..
I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow her on social media. Another great book by Reichs. In the second book of the Temperance Brennan series, Brennan gets pulled into multiple murders spanning across countries Canada and US. As a series of seemingly unrelated events take place, Brennan, Detective Ryan, and a myriad of other professionals look into them and make some grisly discoveries.
I love the continual development of characters in Reichs' books. She explores and evolves Brennan's relationships, not just the professional ones but also her personal ones. This, along with the great dialogue makes me excited to visit the characters in the next books. This book has suspense, mystery, comedic relief, and a plethora of information about the forensic world.
A great series that I am thrilled to be reading. At the risk of losing my entire review again from power outage. I'll keep this short. The book was good. Yes, just generically good. I got annoyed with some of the repetitiveness of Dr. Brennan's actions or lack there of particularly in reference to what she needed to get done in her down time.
I also was not a fan of unnecessarily keeping the reader in the dark on a rather trivial matter. It didn't add or detract from the story in any way, it just left us wondering what Brennan saw in the bones. It didn't even relate to her cases, really. Most importantly, I didn't read the first book in the series, so if looking here for whether that's going to put you behind or not, I'd say you'll be fine. You miss a little bit of background information, but it's easy to fill in the blanks.
This is definitely going to be a series I carry on with. As before, Tempe is a realistic professional woman: her love-life isn't great, but it's not some kind of disaster-zone either; she has decent relationships with co-workers without unrealistic drama; her relationship with her daughter is pretty normal.
It's such a relief to read about a woman who isn't, despite being some kind of gun-toting, wisecracking superhero, strangely needy and incompetent in the daily tasks of life. I like Tempe: she's so normal.
This time, Tempe is dealing with the aftermath of an arson attack, with a side-plot examining the bones of a nineteenth-century nun. Naturally, neither of these cases is entirely straightforward.
As before, we get useful forensic information as various corpses are examined - I always like the technical detail. All in all, a fast-paced murder-mystery, which I read pretty much in one sitting. On to the next I decided to try this series because I love the Bones TV series that is based off of it. While I enjoyed the book, the only thing it really has in common with the TV series is that the main character shares the same name and a similar profession - nothing else is the same.
I started with this second book because our library system only has the first audio book on cassette. Bonnie Hurren narrates and did a fine job although I thought the accents and voices were a little hit or miss in places. I was pleased to see that Barbara Rosenblat narrates a bunch of the series since she's a narrator I often look for.
I love the Montreal setting bits since I have family that lives there and I also read Louise Penny's Armand Gamache series; it's interesting to compare and contrast the two fictional depictions of the same area. I'll definitely have to take this series in small doses though as I have a harder time digesting the grisly death bits over a 13 hour audio book than over a 1 hour TV show.
I found the writing much better than the first one, but the story itself was pretty predictable. A lot of it is easy to see coming, especially since everything just so happens to try together in the end. SummaryWhile working on a historic case, to establish the sainthood of long dead Elizabet Nicolae, Temperence is called in to investigate a housefire where adults as well as children have been killed in what turns out to be a cult murder.
The cult connections run deep, and once Temperence gets the Canadian officials to get over their macho selves, they begin to put the far flung pieces together in this "better stay sharp or you'll miss a clue" novel. In the process of Death du Jour, Temperence finds that a cult following is similar to a cancer that spreads wide and within even the smallest niches, only to be discovered after irreversable damage is done.
I like their partnership; I think it's inevitable that they'll end up a couple of some sort, but I think they'll also remain professional Reichs got me again I had absolutely no clue who the villain was I was stunned. Walking around with my earphones in, I actually stopped and said the person's name. My oldest daughter said, "Huh? Murtrey Island - the island of the monkeys I think she does that on purpose, and I appreciate it!
Daisy Ginot - the McGill University professor with deep, dark secrets I can't say much here, but she gave me chills from the first time Temperence met her. Elizabet - the bones that begin the mystery While the storyline is wide, it all connects in the end and sets up just enough lose ends for continuation later in the series Temperence's daughter Katy connects with an anthropologist mentor, Sam Rayburn of Temperence's on the grounds of the island on which he studies monkey behavior.
Katy is struggling with decisions in her life right now so the connection here brings out some of her characteristics like her mom.
Of course the most direct connection is that 2 dead bodies show up on the secluded island, which is quarantined due to risk of infection for the animals. Cults are the focus of this novel Temperence's brain doesn't stop when she sleeps A recovering alcoholic, Temperence works, runs, reads, travels, etc. Even during the times that she would like a drink, she works through the desire logically Temperence drinks Diet Coke instead of alcohol, doesn't whine or moan about her status, and doesn't share her story with just anyone.
The older I get the more I am convinced that the brightest people are at risk of addictive behavior as well as mental challenges. What I Didn't LikeThe use of dogs as part of the villainous torture I'm biased here, but dogs, knives and scalding liquid as forms of torture are gruesome.
I'm also one of those dog owners who doesn't encourage my dog to "get" anything, nor do I reinforce any of her aggressive traits. The world has enough images of dog viciousness already The science and the language - it's not that I don't like these aspects
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