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Reichs--bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the television hit Bones, based on her Temperance Brennan books--delivers more awe-inspiring science and surprising twists in this gripping, sophisticated thriller.
Author Notes
Kathy Reichs was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 7, 1948. She received a BA in anthropology from American University in 1971, a MA in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in physical anthropology from Northwestern University in 1975.
She works as a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Quebec. She has taught at Northern Illinois University, University of Pittsburgh, Concordia University, McGill University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work as a forensic anthropologist is internationally recognized; she has traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, helped in an exhumation in the area of the highlands of southwest Guatemala, and done forensic work at Ground Zero in New York.
In addition to her published academic papers and books, Reichs has written numerous works of crime fiction including Temperance Brennan series. Déjà Dead won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. She is a producer on the Fox television series Bones, which is loosely based on her own forensic career and writing. In 2015, she won the Silver Bullet Literary Award.
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Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In bestseller Reichs's entertaining 10th Temperance Brennan forensic thriller (after Break No Bones), Brennan, her relationship with Det. Andrew Ryan on the rocks, welcomes the distraction of an unidentified New Brunswick skeleton from Quebec's cold case unit. But when the bones are determined to be that of an adolescent girl, Brennan is convinced they belong to her childhood friend, Evangeline Landry, who disappeared at age 15. Now Brennan must come to terms with Evangeline's possible death, while trying to ignore her feelings for Ryan as they investigate a series of teenage abduction murders that could be tied to the mysterious bones. With her usual blend of cutting-edge forensic science, nail-biting suspense and characters that pop off the page, Reichs, who's vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and the producer of Fox's Bones, has produced another winner in one of the genre's most satisfying series. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
In her Montreal office, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan stares down at the old bones on her desk. Are they the bones of an old friend? Temperance Brennan (Monday Mourning, 2004, etc.) was eight when she met ten-year-old Évangline Landry, who for the next four years was her closest friend. Both had been lonely girls, strangers in a strange land. Tempe had been transplanted from Chicago to Charlotte, Évangline from Acadia, Canada. Abruptly, without a trace, Évangline vanished, but Tempe has never been able to forget her. Thirty years later, a female skeleton is plaguing her with painful questions. How old is old? Was the death violent? Is it absurd to think what she's thinking just because the bones were found in Acadia? Answers are hard to come by, in part because Tempe's plate is piled even higher than usual. Detective Lieutenant Andy Ryan is handling the scary new case of five girls in their late teens to early 20s, three missing, two dead. Have they fallen victim to a serial killer? And of course there's Ryan himself, a lover acting uncomfortably cool. Tempe, beset and brilliant as always, buckles down to find answers, only some of which will be rooted in the death sciences. A bit of a jumble at the end--Reichs is a committed over-plotter--but Tempe is both deeper and funnier than she's ever been, making this her best outing to date. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
"With crisp prose, well-drawn characters, unflagging attention to detail, and a resonant emotional angle, Reichs' tenth Temperance Brennan mystery (after Break No Bones, 2006) featuring the forensic anthropologist finds the forensic anthropologist in top form. This time it's personal, when the skeleton of a young girl evokes memories of a deep, decades-old friendship with10-year-old Evangeline Landry, who sustained 8-year-old Tempe at a time of great personal loss only to disappear several years later. As Tempe works to identify the skeletal remains and cause of death, Detective Andrew Ryan seeks her help with several cases involving missing girls and unidentified bodies, raising the possibility of a serial killer. With her workload overwhelming, Tempe's life starts falling apart: her visiting sister's impulsiveness puts both of them at risk; her long-estranged husband, Pete, announces unsettling plans; and Ryan the man in her life makes a difficult personal decision. Reichs deftly provides enough background to make this a successful stand-alone, at the same time advancing relationships between characters for her increasing legion of fans, who won't want to miss this one."--"Leber, Michele" Copyright 2007 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
IN his first novel about Billy Boyle, James R. Benn labored a bit too strenuously to draw a picture of a young soldier-sleuth who epitomized everything decent and admirable about World War II America. Benn's hero is still wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in THE FIRST WAVE (Soho, $24), but his character has deepened, as have his thoughts. Now he earns respect for the good he does, rather than what he stands for. "War sure is educational," marvels this Irish cop from South Boston, who thought he was getting a cushy patronage job when Uncle Ike (a distant relative better known as the commander of United States forces in Europe) claimed the "rosy-cheeked youth" as his personal private investigator. Instead, the kid saw plenty of action on the European front and learned enough about undercover police work to pass what even his uncle had to admit was a tough initiation. "The First Wave" finds Boyle coming ashore in the 1942 Allied landing in French North Africa He's on a dangerous, if vague, mission to rally support from officers in the Vichy government forces in Algiers and to free a group of French resistance fighters, his English girlfriend among them. A better cop than secret agent, Boyle also gets wind of a smuggling ring that's depriving soldiers of the new miracle drug, penicillin, and during the course of his investigation discovers that even in the middle of a war a combat hospital offers no refuge from noncombat crimes like drug trafficking, high-stakes gambling, rape and murder. In granting Boyle a measure of maturity, Benn takes care not to put a muzzle on him. The brash kid from Southie is still open, direct and fearless in his manner (and in his wonderfully loose-jointed use of the English language) and in no danger of losing his cover as a "happy-go-lucky Yank." But even amid the excitement of the spirited wartime storytelling, Benn allows Boyle's experiences to change him in ways both subtle and dramatic. Becoming sensitized to the status of female officers - paid half the salary of men, unable to issue an order to the lowliest private and denied the dignity of a salute - is one of those subtle ways. Seeing himself from the perspective of a people whose country his own has invaded is a more striking leap for Boyle, as is his new willingness to judge foreigners by their own standards. In one painful moment of introspection, he even questions his family's rigid beliefs. Where he comes from, that's real bravery. The elderly Britons in Robert Goddard's slow-burning murder mystery NEVER GO BACK (Delta, paper, $12) haven't thought about their military service in half a century. Actually, "service" isn't precisely le mot juste, since the Royal Air Force disciplined 15 of these bad boys by sending them to Kilveen Castle, an R.A.F. outstation in Scotland, as part of Operation Tabula Rasa, an experiment to determine whether academic subjects could, under certain conditions, be drilled into brains as dull and lazy as theirs. The experiment was a failure, in that none of the flyboys manifested a sudden, unquenchable passion for learning. But when two of them re-enter Harry Barnett's life with news that a 50th reunion at Kilveen Castle has been booked and paid for, he goes off with them on the chance that his old pal Barry Chipchase might also show up. Reunions are always such fun in mystery stories, once the participants start getting themselves murdered, and Goddard is a master of the leisurely, deliberate build from wonder to doubt to suspicion, then on to fear and panic. Resisting the panic part, Harry and Barry put their heads together to find out what really happened to them at the castle, and while we wouldn't wish it on a lab rat, it makes perfect, horrible sense. Kathy Reichs denies nothing in the way of hightech lab facilities to Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist whose hectic schedule has her rotating between demanding jobs in Charlotte, N.C., and Montreal. But just as the blunt and brilliant Tempe favors her own home-cooking methods for cleaning cadaver bones, in this scrupulously tended series Reichs relies on old-fashioned elements of romance as her storytelling hook. For all its gruesome plot details about predatory men who trick adolescent girls into sexual bondage and ruthlessly discard them when the girls wise up, BONES TO ASHES (Scribner, $25.95) is all heart. Even as it observes the procedures of cutting-edge forensic scienee, the story is filtered through Tempe-s childhood recollections of golden summers on Pawleys Island that ended when her best friend, Évangéline, returned north to "the belly of L'Acadie" and disappeared. A deft hand at balanting the emotional light w'tn tne dark, Reichs links the enchanting Évangéline and her Acadian heritage to the unsolved cases of dead and missing girls that have stumped the police for years. And even now, 10 books into the series, Tempe's strung-out affair with Detective-Lieutenant Andrew Ryan still hangs on the tensions that confound lovers in an atmosphere of violent death. Short stories can be little goodies you nibble on while trying to decide which novel to read next. Or as in the case of DEAD BOYS (Little, Brown, $21.99), a first collection by Richard Lange, they can be as filling as a banquet. All 12 of these are set in a gloomy and inhospitable, if not downright hostile, Los Angeles, and each is narrated by some loser guy - a salesman, a drifter, a house painter, a bank robber - yearning for something or someone either just beyond his reach or so unattainable he might as well simply lie down and die. The writing is so fine throughout that it's almost a crime to single out "Everything Beautiful Is Far Away" as a perfect specimen. A shockingly tender study of a stalker, the narrative gently probes the claustrophobic world of a newsstand clerk pining for a trashy girl who dumped him. "Everybody has the right to something nice," he says, explaining why he borrows a ladder and paints an ocean scene on the wall across the alley from the only window in his room. Unlike most of the stories, this one has a definitive ending. It's violent, it's truthful and it's devastating. James R. Benn Benn's soldier-sleuth acts as a personal investigator for his 'Uncle Ike' Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Library Journal Review
The "forest primeval" of Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline holds only criminal darkness in this latest offering in Reichs's Tempe Brennan series. The forensic anthropologist is back in Montreal (after Break No Bones), facing a troubling lineup of young, female corpses needing her analysis. All from Acadia, these victims trigger long-suppressed memories of Evangeline, a childhood friend also from Acadia who mysteriously disappeared one summer. Tempe and police detective Andrew Ryan (her on again-off again lover) become convinced that her friend's fate is somehow connected to the bones in her hands. Hippolyte, a police colleague who grew up in the French-speaking Atlantic provinces, opens doors to the Acadian communities, as does a forensic linguist who analyzes a small volume of poems found at one of the crime scenes. When two of the corpses become connected to a photographer with an epic-size cache of kiddie porn, the Quebec investigators recognize they've found something huge. Reichs keeps her superb suspense piece on track, leaving the reader totally wrung out by the time the ultimate villains are tracked down and confronted. Essential for all collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/07.]-Teresa L. Jacobsen, Solano Cty. Lib., CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.