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Summary: Another great book from Jan Burke!
Review: I'm reading "Bones" now and can't put it down! It is just as good as "Liar". I really enjoy this author.
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Summary: Burke's Best Work Yet!
Review: While this is a darker book than her others, the characters are woven together and intertwined in such a manner that one actually becomes part of the plot -- literally running through the mountains with Irene. Not a book with a story -- it becomes life itself. I took a personal day to stay home and finish it. Highly recommended!!
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Summary: Not Disappointed! Well Worth The Wait
Review: What a delightful writer. She just weaves you through all these charactersthat you don't want to stop reading. Looking forward to the next one. PLEASE keepthis series going.
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Summary: another fascinating episode in Irene's life
Review: Jan Burke has created an absolutely fantastic series and I can't wait for the next book.
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Summary: absolutely first rate!
Review: Jan Burke's best yet. Good plot twist at the end
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Summary: The best yet
Review: I waited all summer for this book and was not disappointed. This is the best "Irene" book yet! More complex, more gripping. Feisty Irene is a GREAT heroine. Now, I can't wait for the next one. Ms. Burk, please hurry! (Amazan.com just needs to get the title right.)
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Summary: Best Jan Burke novel to date!
Review: This newest of the Irene Kelly series grabs you right from page 1 and holds you in its grip right through to the surprising twist at the end. Bones is by far the best book Jan Burke has written to date. This puts her right up there with P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell. A must read for lovers of suspense and mystery.
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Summary: She is the best mystery author of the decade
Review: THE REAL TITLE IS BONES!!!! Four years ago, a teenage waif Gillian Sayres accosted reporter Irene Kelly outside the office building that housed THE EXPRESS. Gillian was worried that her mother failed to return home the night before. Irene agreed to check out the whereabouts of the missing person, but none of her contacts had any information. Over the years, Gillian and Irene stayed in contact with each other, wondering if any corpses might be that of her mother. Today it appears the questions surrounding the disappearance of Judith Sayres will be answered. Vicious serial killer Nicholas Parrish offers a deal in which he will take authorities to the body of Judith. He wants in exchange for doing that the dropping of the death penalty. The deal is made and Irene accompanies the police to the alleged grave site. However, a trap is set and Parrish escapes with him chasing after Irene. Parrish plans to returns to his old ways as he now obsesses on his next intended victim, Irene. Compared with HOCUS and LIAR, BONES is a much darker tale. The brilliant Jan Burke provides readers a guided tour inside the tortured but logical mind and soul of a serial killer who gains much pleasure from mutilating and killing women. The game he plays with Irene seems as intimate in a mirror sense as the reporter's relationship with her beloved spouse. Without the gore, Ms Burke attains the level of a Thomas Harris with her latest thriller. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A creepy good story with lots of twists and characters.
Review: Being a fan of Jeffery Deaver and Patricia Cornwell, this book was recommended to me by a fellow reader. I had read Burke's "Flight" last year and quite enjoyed it, but found "Bones" a very different kind of story. "Flight" was more of a human interest story with a mystery thrown in, whereas "Bones" definitely enters Deaver "grisly and creepy serial killer book" territory. Burke's ongoing character Irene Kelly, a feisty journalist, is part of a team of mostly cops and forensic specialists going on a mountain trek with a serial killer to find the body of a victim he says he buried there. Thus begins a harrowing, tragic and creepy cat-and-mouse game that will keep you reading (and maybe even keep you awake) until the end. I guess my only criticism would be that the book is packed with such an enormous cast of characters that it is sometimes difficult to keep them straight (this is more in the first half, though). Fortunately, the later part of the story focuses most of its attention on 4 or 5 of them so it's easier to follow. The book's villain is not one you're likely to forget soon!
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Summary: Yikes!
Review: I have often wondered where Ms Burke comes up with her ideas and how she can describe the complex mind of a killer in such a startling and believable way. This book scared the living daylights out of me. In part because I took the book on a camping trip (not recommended!), but mostly because "Bones" has such an intriguing plot line and more intriguing characters. I wanted to put it down because I was so scared, but couldn't because I had to know what happened next. A must read for true mystery and suspense lovers! All of Burke's books are fantastic, but this one takes the cake.
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