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Using the Insider's perspective that sends chills do your spine, the #1 international bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes Tempe Brennan home to Charlotte. North Carolina, Where a set of grim discoveries interrupt plans for a romantic vacation."Included in Trade Bestseller, Super Bestseller, and full Standing Order Plans.
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.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she's awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she's called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitor's infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains (" `Human?' `I'm not sure' ") are discovered by Brennan's dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennan's vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempe's dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect. (July 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Returning from Guatemala (Grave Secrets, 2002) to home turf in North Carolina, globetrotting forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan juggles three cases that will require analyzing a lot more than bare bones. The first case is the most straightforward and heart-rending: the search for Tamela Banks, daughter of a retired colleague at UNC-Charlotte, who left behind a woodstove stoked with the bones of her newborn infant. Eager to escape the depression such discoveries bring on, Tempe accompanies her daughter Katy to a barbecue that's interrupted by a bizarre second discovery--the decapitated remains of six bears neatly buried in a pair of plastic bags--and news of a third that provokes even fewer tears: a mountainside plane crash whose two corpses have to share attention with some neatly packaged cocaine found in the woods nearby, some mysterious black powder on the underside of their ruined Cessna, and the occasional feather from an exotic bird. Though all three investigations, which a closing note broadly suggests are based on real-life cases, have their moments, hard-working Reichs overreaches herself when she insists on linking them all, together with the disappearance five years ago of a pair of Federal Wildlife Service officers. The results are fascinating, grueling, and ultimately exhausting. Solid, overplotted work from an author so determined to emerge from Patricia Cornwell's long shadow that she's willing to try every trick in the coroner's book. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
A giant step up from her lackluster Grave Secrets (2002), Reichs' latest puts her right up there with Patricia Cornwell's early Kay Scarpetta mysteries. The similarities are obvious--single woman forensic specialist (Reichs' character is Tempe Brennan, who splits her time between North Carolina and Canada) with a daughter, a romantic interest, a generally repellent but perspicacious detective in the background, and an abundance of gory detail and science fact. This time Tempe is in North Carolina, poking her keen investigative nose into what seems at first to be an alarmingly sprawling mess that includes everything from bear bones to a headless corpse. But unlike in Grave Secrets, Reichs manages to pull mostly everything together here (though not without a quick fix or two), and her character's dedication, intelligence, dry wit, and femininity (her romance with Andrew Ryan, lieutenant-detective of the Surete du Quebec, takes a pleasant leap forward) really shine through. A comeback that's definitely hard to put down. StephanieZvirin.
Library Journal Review
In Charlotte, NC, on vacation, Tempe Brennan goes with her daughter on a picnic in the country, where her dog unearths what turns out to be a cache of (mostly) bear bones. The puzzle will involve her in a case that includes drug trafficking, trade in exotic animal parts, the murder of a baby, and, of course, peril as she tries to sort it all out. Her lover, detective Andrew Ryan (visiting from Quebec), is drawn into the case. Fans--and even those new to the series--will be gripped by Reichs's facility for telling a thrilling story, working in the science without boredom, and developing the characters along the way. Barbara Rosenblatt's narration is superb, as usual, despite a couple of regional mispronunciations likely to go unnoticed except by locals. Her ability to capture the ideal voice for each character and to express the emotion and maintain the pace makes this an essential purchase for fiction collections.--Melody A. Moxley, Rowan P.L., Salisbury, NC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.