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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780671011369 ISBN: 0671011367 Label: Pocket Star Manufacturer: Pocket Star Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: June 01, 1998 Publisher: Pocket Star Sales Rank: 8252 Studio: Pocket Star Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Kathy Reichs blasts into Patricia Cornwell territory -- and onto the New York Times bestseller list -- with this critically acclaimed debut novel inspired by Reichs' own career. Dr. Temperance Brennan, the wry, impassioned director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, is driven to unravel shocking acts of violence by reading the bones of the dead. In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern within the grisly handiwork -- and her professional detachment gives way to a harrowing search for a killer in the city's winding streets. With little help from the police, Tempe calls on her expertise, honed in the isolated intensity of the autopsy suite, to investigate on her own. But her determined chase is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her daughter -- in mortal danger.... Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Definitly not deja vu.It's been quite the year for Dr. Temperance Brennan. She's gone from married to divorced, from North Carolina to Quebec, but the only thing that has stayed the same is her career. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist and she is very, very good at it. However, she is not a detective and when she is called to look upon skeletal remains found in a garbage bag, her desire to do more than just her job comes out in full force. Facing a very puzzling case and animosity from one of the lead ... Read More Rating: - Don't expect the TV TempeI'm a fan of the tv show Bones, and have had this series recommended to me numerous times, so I was looking forward to this book! I already knew that the tv show was only loosely based on the books, so I wasn't surprised when I found out the book Tempe was older than the tv one, and that there is no Booth. Still, my knowledge of the show created a sort of disconnect for me, and I found myself reading this as though the book Tempe was an older version of the tv Tempe. All of that aside, ... Read More Rating: - ReaderHaven't had time to read it yet, but my husband (who is visually impaired listened to it, and what I heard was very good). Rating:  - First in the seriesI've read several of Kathy Reichs'Temperance Brennan novels (out of order of course) and I wanted to go back and read the first in the series. Had this been the first of the Brennan novels I read, I probably would have been willing to give others a try. This book was okay, but Kathy Reichs does much better as the series progresses. I saw where another reviewer did not like the use of one word sentences. I honestly loved the technique. It was short and got the point across without going into boring ... Read More Rating:  - One of the worst books I ever readA friend of mine recommended this series, since she likes the TV show, so I decided to give the first book a try - I was terribly disappointed. First of all, I cannot believe that so many amazon reviews were highly positive about the book - does anyone recognize bad writing or storytelling any more or is it enough for them that a book made it to TV? The writing is so bad, I was barely able to finish the book - constant comparisons - like this, like that etc. - if she would stop doing this, the book ... Read More |
