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Summary: Sorry Tempi, you blew it for me
Review: Meet Tempe Brennan--she is a forensic anthropologist who divides her time professionally between Quebec, Canada and Charlotte, NC. In this tale, Tempe is drawn into the mystery behind several heinous deaths in the small Canadian town of St-Jovite; at the same time, a young college girl has mysteriously disappeared, Tempe's own sister is demonstrating bizarre behavior--even for her--and bodies are discovered on the elite Carolina primate island of a close friend. What, if any connection, do any of these things have--to each other, or to a mysterious cult?With plenty of mystery, drama, suspense and forensic detail, fans of Kay Scarpetta will readily embrace this writer. I've found yet another new favorite! DYB
Rating: 
Summary: EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!!!
Review: Meet Tempe Brennan--she is a forensic anthropologist who divides her time professionally between Quebec, Canada and Charlotte, NC. In this tale, Tempe is drawn into the mystery behind several heinous deaths in the small Canadian town of St-Jovite; at the same time, a young college girl has mysteriously disappeared, Tempe's own sister is demonstrating bizarre behavior--even for her--and bodies are discovered on the elite Carolina primate island of a close friend. What, if any connection, do any of these things have--to each other, or to a mysterious cult? With plenty of mystery, drama, suspense and forensic detail, fans of Kay Scarpetta will readily embrace this writer. I've found yet another new favorite! DYB
Rating: 
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Reichs does a nice job of weaving this story together. It was a little slow in the beginning, but came on strong late in the book. If you like stories about forensics, you will enjoy this book.
Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Reichs does a nice job of weaving this story together. It was a little slow in the beginning, but came on strong late in the book. If you like stories about forensics, you will enjoy this book.
Rating:
Summary: A Good Read
Review: This is the second in the Tempe series, and it was not quite as good as the first. The story line tying where she worked in the winter to where she worked in the summer was just too coincidental for my taste. Made it unbelievable. But her forensic writing was still on top. Nobody does that better. No gratuitous gore! Overall, still a good read.
Rating:
Summary: Intelligent and Entertaining
Review: This mystery, featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, settles nicely in tone between Aaron Elkins sunny Gideon Oliver series and Patricia Cornwell's gory and dark Kay Scarpetta mysteries. The crimes are recent, the perpetrators frightening, and the suspense gripping. But the main characters are likeable and much less tortured than Cornwell's protagonists. Kathy Reichs, herself a forensic anthropologist with a boatload of credentials, offers up plenty of technical detail about the nitty gritty of forensic work, interesting settings in Montreal and North Carolina, a dose of religious fanaticism, and a character who is easy to identify with and root for. This isn't great literature, but it's a pretty good way to spend an afternoon.
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