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Grave Secrets
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Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
Guatemala, in the searing heat. The bones of a child no more than two years old are uncovered when mass graves are excavated. Twenty-three women and children are said to lie where forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is searching for remains, in what is one of the most heartbreaking cases of her career. Then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City...And when a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a run down hotel, only someone with Tempe's expertise can deduce who the victim was and how they died. But her path is blocked: it appears that some people would prefer that Guatemala's 'dsappeared' stayed buried. And others seem to want the missing girls kept the same way...
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'Compared with Patricia Cornwell, Reichs is actually in a different league'
Sunday Times
Dr Temperance Brennan is a forensic archaeologist working in Guatemala on the graves of victims of past military regimes. Her important work is interrupted by a local investigation into the disappearance of four young girls, but as she is reluctantly dragged into this new mire, another archaeologist is murdered and she realizes that she may be next. Brennan is a fine central character, expert but vulnerable, clued up but unsure of herself with a new colleague whom she can't help finding attractive. Reichs's writing is of the spare procedural variety familiar to fans of the genre, pacey and eager to let the reader paint in the details while she gets on with outlining the next move. The wider characterization is less accomplished - Guatemalans seem largely made up of simple peasant folk (good, but with a tendency to be victims) and corrupt officials (bad, murderous and on the make). But there's a couple of good, honest, sexy, cops both in Quebec (Brennan's home patch) and Guatemala who threaten to skew her judgement. Reichs's fans (of whom there are many) will love this novel. (Kirkus UK)
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Kathy Reichs serves as forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec. A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.
Fellow novelist KERRY REICHS on KATHY REICHS
When speaking of writers that have most influenced me, it’s safe to
begin at the beginning. My mother Kathy Reichs has written eleven
London Times best selling books and fostered the television drama Bones.
I am incredibly proud of her talents, and her pride in mine has
sweetened my success. My defection from Lawyer Camp (my father and
brother are lawyers) to Writer Camp was heralded with joyous open arms
by my mother, and the best part is enjoying it together. We don’t
agree on everything, and we write about vastly different subject
materials. But some day I may just cave in to her pestering that I
“put a dead body” in one of my books so we can write something
together! If you haven’t already, try her latest book, Devil Bones.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on TEMPERANCE BRENNAN...
Created by Kathy Reichs, Tempe Brennan is a
forensic anthropologist who shares her time between North Carolina and
Montreal, and has now appeared in almost ten novels where her medical
examinations of bones and other sinister discoveries always send her on
a trail of murder, peril and grief. Her latest outing is in 206 BONES.
Temperance Brennan series:
1. Deja Dead
2. Death Du Jour
3. Deadly Decisions
4. Fatal Voyage
5. Grave Secrets
6. Bare Bones
7. Monday Mourning
8. Cross Bones
9. Break No Bones
10. Bones to Ashes
11. Devil Bones
12. 206 Bones
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