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Title: Bare Bones : A Novel by Kathy Reichs, Michele Park ISBN: 0-7435-2981-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (54 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Suspenseful Mystery
Comment: In her sixth Temperance Brennan novel, art once again imitates life as Kathy Reichs writes about forensic anthropologist Brennan, who, like Reichs, is employed in North Carolina and Quebec. When Tempe goes to a picnic near Charlotte, North Carolina with her college-aged daughter Katy, Boyd, Tempe's estranged husband's dog, digs up skeletal remains. With the discovery of human bones amidst bear remains, Tempe's anticipated vacation with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, comes to a sudden halt.
With the beach trip on the back burner, Ryan joins Tempe, as she investigates the burned remains of the baby belonging to a drug dealer's girlfriend, a fiery plane crash, and more bear and human remains in a latrine pit near Boyd's initial skeletal discovery. While the various investigative sites seem unrelated, Tempe's intuition tells her that they are all somehow connected, as she comes across a complex weave of drug trafficking and illegal exporting of animal parts.
Ms. Reichs' technical knowledge of forensic anthropology adds fascinating information to this novel chock full of murder, mystery, and a dash of romance. With so many twist and turns and death threats against Tempe, this novel is a sure winner with fans who want a no-holds barred suspenseful mystery.
Rating: 3
Summary: Average entry in 6-book forensic anthropologist series
Comment: We've read this entire series and have generally been pleased with the story lines; the reasonably charismatic leading lady, Tempe Brennan; the dual setting of Charlotte and Montreal; and the technicalities of the work being performed to identify victims from bones and chasing clues sometimes all the way to the perpetrators. Much of the books sounds almost autobiographical, as both the technical work and the geographic settings mirror the real life profession of author Dr. Kathy Reichs. We felt her just prior novel, "Grave Secrets", suffered from too much detective work and chasing of criminals, for which Tempe has no particular training nor skills, just a penchant for action. In that book, her specialty skills took second place by far. However, in this latest novel, if anything we have a flood of victims so dominating Tempe's time she barely has a few hours for Canadian love interest Andrew Ryan, a real detective who is visiting Tempe in Charlotte for their first really serious affair. Some scenes with Ryan and daughter Katy added some human interest to an otherwise somewhat gory story. In fact, there wind up being so many dead bodies, including several skeletons of black bears (hence the pun book title), one almost needs a scorecard to keep all the characters and happenings straight. There was a very interesting description of how certain animal organs are being illegally harvested for sale to (mostly) Oriental customers whom attribute curative powers to, in this case, bear gall bladders of all things. Meanwhile dope smuggling, rare bird smuggling, and (by the way) a human murder or two, keep the plot jumping with developments. There are in fact so many sub-plots that miraculously intertwine before it's all over that the book suffers in our mind from being "over-worked".
Reichs has enjoyed success with fresh forensic territory and great timing with the high level of current interest in "CSI" and similar TV shows. A tendency to overwhelm us with detailed analysis in the early books has given way to complicated plot development, no doubt under the guidance of the editors and publishers to "dumb" things down and appeal to a broader audience. Reichs has built a nice fan club to date, but the spotty reception given her last two outings may indicate trouble is brewing. We'd suggest that if you're new to this author, start with one of her first couple of books and let these later ones go for a while. Meanwhile, we hope Reichs can set a firmer direction with her next Tempe Brennan adventure.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This book is categorized as a suspense-thriller, which is interesting because it contains barely any suspense and hardly any thrills. You'd have to read the entire book to realize this, however, so not a lot of people would catch the stunning lack of suspense and thrills and the injustice of it being placed in the wrong category.
I've heard a great deal of praise for Reichs' first novel, Deja Dead, and in retrospect I wish I had read it instead of this one because it sounds like it at least belongs in the suspense/thriller genre whereas this one is not even worthy of praise.
However, if you don't like to get excited, or if your doctor has suggested you should lay off all excitement for a while, then THIS is your kind of book.
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Title: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028383 Publisher: Pocket Star Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blow Fly: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399150897 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Deadly Decisions by Kathleen J. Reichs, Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028367 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028375 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deja Dead by Kathleen J. Reichs, Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671011367 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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