Kathy Reichs has published dozens of
books, many of them in her Temperance Brennan series, upon which the television
program Bones is based. Ms. Reichs was present at the 2014 Book Expo
America conference, and I was lucky enough to get a copy of her latest
Temperance Brennan novel there.
Bones Never Lie doesn't disappoint. A forensic anthropologist, Temperance
is invited to participate in an investigation into the murders of three young
girls in what appears to be a serial murder spree that started in Canada, moved
to Vermont, and then on to Charlotte, N.C., where Temperance spends much of her
time. She and her former partner Andrew Ryan had worked on what appears to be a
related case in Quebec. She has to fly to Costa Rica to try to bring him back after
he’s gone AWOL to grieve over the death of his daughter to a heroin overdose.
Temperance has to balance office
politics with a race against time to catch the serial killer before he or she strikes
again. Working with Skinny Slidell, a local detective, as well as detectives
from Vermont and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Temperance
and Ryan attempt to track down the killer who went off the grid ten years
previously. Fast paced and with loads of action, this book kept me turning the
pages until I finished. The only quibble that I have with this book is that the
dialogue is consistently nasty. I found the persistent sarcasm and just plain
meanness of the dialogue to be a little tiresome. Nevertheless, I recommend
this book to anyone who enjoys mysteries with a forensic science angle.
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