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Bones to Ashes

A Novel

By Kathy Reichs

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| Hardcover | 9780743294379

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Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also Continue

Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Évangéline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Évangéline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Évangéline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was "dangerous."

Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?

Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.

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  • Bookreporter.com - BONES TO ASHES by Kathy Reichs

    • Read an Excerpt Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has just returned to her Montreal office for the summer when a package containing deteriorated bones jolts her back to her childhood. She and her sister and mother had spent several summers ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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  • Started off interesting enough, but tiresome towards the end. As it is a crime novel, everything mentioned in it is important to the plot, and somewhere around the middle of the book the reader has already figured out the basic lines of what was happening and has to listen (well, I had to listen) to ... (continue)

    Started off interesting enough, but tiresome towards the end. As it is a crime novel, everything mentioned in it is important to the plot, and somewhere around the middle of the book the reader has already figured out the basic lines of what was happening and has to listen (well, I had to listen) to the narrator wonder and wonder and wonder... For Pete's sake, it's right there in front of you... Still, entertaining for the long time riding the bus to and from work...

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    Athanasia Mrg said on Aug 29, 2011 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

  • My thoughts

    This was both a good mystery and a good insight into Tempe's childhood. I liked how she persisted in finding her lost friend and solving the mysteries of the cold cases. I look forward to reading the next book, Devil Bones.

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    krin5292 said on Mar 12, 2011 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

  • Maybe not a book to read on Christmas day.....
    As usual a very well written story, well paced, interesting and fun. At times all the medical explanations can get a little boring to me

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    Tatiana Shafer said on Dec 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • The book series is completely different than the TV show for sure. It's not a bad thing, it just threw me off for a while. I did enjoy reading it, and the ending completely surprised me. Always a good thing.

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    Heather Landry said on Sep 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • Mary Sue

    Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the female Clive Cussler!
    The major character was born in the same place as the author, grew up in the same place as the author, speaks the same languages as the author (and she boasts about it a lot), works in the same place as the author and is of the same gender a ... (continue)

    Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the female Clive Cussler!
    The major character was born in the same place as the author, grew up in the same place as the author, speaks the same languages as the author (and she boasts about it a lot), works in the same place as the author and is of the same gender as the author! Plus, she seems to have every ability in the world for absolutely no reason, and a tragic past too. Very unlikely.
    Anyway, the book is really well-written, full of details. It's a shame that the plot ruins everything.
    A good reading for everyone who is looking for a Mary Sue...and a book written in English full of unrequired (and random; clearly the author only wanted to let us know she speaks two languages, which is extremely annoying) French words. Enjoy! (even though , in my opinion, you'd enjoy it more if you didn't read it at all)

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    Jay said on Sep 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Enjoyable! Not quite as good as previous ones. It seemed like Reichs was stretching things to fill out an entire book. There was too much description of how things were done (although this might be why others like her books), such as forenciscs things, how e-mails can be sent by using an unprotected ... (continue)

    Enjoyable! Not quite as good as previous ones. It seemed like Reichs was stretching things to fill out an entire book. There was too much description of how things were done (although this might be why others like her books), such as forenciscs things, how e-mails can be sent by using an unprotected wi-fi network, a lot of things like: He was referring to. . . (It seems to me that you make an allusion, and if it has to be explained to the reader, it's not a very good allusion. Just say it and those who get it, do; those who don't, don't.) She even repeated the long list of long names of victims dozens of times in the book; it didn't seem necessary, and detracted from the flow. She translated almost every French word or phrase she used; again, non-French-speaking people probably appreciate this. My take is that she should either use the French phrases and expect people to know what they mean, or not use them. There's no need to repeate the same thing in two languages. All these asides detracted from the plot, and I didn't enjoy it as much as her other books.

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    Missmath144 said on Apr 15, 2008 | Add your feedback

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