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| Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Pocket Star
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (79 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1981
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 3.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416525653
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416525653
ASIN: 1416525653
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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Product Description
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. Evangeline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Evangeline 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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 Too technical August 24, 2008
Others may enjoy a read that is bogged down with technical forensic details and French phrases, but not me. The subject matter is also a bit disturbing as it deals with child abuse/murder. I'll be glad when I finish this one.
 Don't Bother August 24, 2008
Don't bother, unless you want a graphic, scientific, text book description of body parts in varying stages of decay. The details and explainations throughout this book were laborious and unnecessary. I found myself skimming over pages just to get to the end. I did not enjoy this read.
Bones to Ashes - good read! August 20, 2008
"Bones to Ashes" by Kathy Reichs was an interesting mystery to read. Ms. Reichs is the author who inspired the TV drama on FOX television called "Bones". I enjoy the show, so I was excited to read one of her books!
The book is about Temperance Brennan, "Tempe", who is a forensic anthropologist. Tempe is a busy woman, helping her ex-lover `Ryan' with a rash of teen abductions and deaths/murders, helping her pal `Hippo' with identifying a skeleton found where Tempe spent time as a young girl, and working all the other cases that come in as well.
Tempe is concerned that the skeleton is that of her best friend from 5 of her childhood summers spent at Pawleys Island. She just disappeared one summer day and though Tempe and her younger sister Harry tried to find her, it was no use. Some letters came back undelivered, others did not. This was 40 years ago. Who's skeleton was this? Tempe had to know.
The book also allows us into Tempe's personal life. Her ex-husband, her ex-lover, her sister who's had so many husbands she's lost track. Interesting story, just her personal life!
I enjoyed reading "Bones to Ashes". There are a few things I didn't like, however. There is so much French in it that at times it distracted me from what I was reading. There were also some long stretches between the offerings of more information that was interesting to me.
Overall, I recommend this book. It is an interesting story with some twists in plot that are not expected.
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 A Chilling Thriller August 19, 2008
I love dramatic thrillers that revolve around forensic science and detective work so Bones To Ashes was right up my alley. It has main character Tempe (Temperance Brennan), who works in forensic anthropology studying bones. She comes home to her Canadian office and gets a box of bones which she is to study and give her professional opinion on if the bones are human or animal and how they were killed, which she had dealt with plenty of times so it should be simple for her. But with this case, for some reason, it returns constant memories of her childhood, which involved a close friend named Evageline Landry.
Evageline held a special place in her heart because they bonded as girls, doing things she had never experienced before. So with the sudden constant memories she attempts to get a hold of her old friend only to get awkward vibes from her family and them stating something bad happened to her, but not giving her any details of what it was. So naturally she is bothered by the whole situation and constantly keeps thinking about Evageline and what really had happened to her.
Plus she is left in the situation to convince police that these bones were tied into some kind of crime and she has to work with Andrew Ryan, a detective, who Tempe has had romantic ties to in the past. Ryan is an an expert in missing juvenile girls' cases. Tempe ends up discovering more than she could have ever thought - a sociopathic killer involved with a child pornography ring. All these elements mixed together makes Bones To Ashes an excellent chilling thriller.
A Nearly Perfect Story Line That's a Bit Too Coincidental August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing that kept "Bones to Ashes" from being a perfect 10 on my 10-point scale was the incredible (as in unbelievable) number of coincidences that had to occur for the final plot resolution to be realized. To be fair, the outcome is clearly foreshadowed near the beginning of this superbly written and tightly plotted story. Still, I kept hoping there would be an unexpected twist that would cause the predictable outcome not to happen. Alas.
Beyond that single flaw, this is Reichs' best work to date. Particularly intriguing is a very clever technique called forensic linguistics, a fascinating field of science with which I was completely unfamiliar until I read this book. I've since done some research and Reichs' portrayal of the science and its proper use in this book is impeccably accurate. The ability to confirm from two different pieces of writing the likelihood of a single author was quite satisfying.
Heroine Temperance Brennan continues to battle her demons, her loves, her personal alienation and her uncertainties, which make her a richer character than many of her fictional counterparts in other novelists' works.
The story unfolds a bit slowly for my taste, but it does take on the pace and flavor of the region in which it is set. Like so many novels set in the American South, it moves along at the pace of life. I often found myself wanting to peer a few pages ahead to see when this current long (but somewhat interesting) diversion would end so we could get back to the storyline.
All in all, a really solid and enjoyable work. Highly recommended.
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