Kathy Reichs

Taschenbuch

Bare Bones

Thriller

Beschreibung

Erst das Skelett eines neugeborenen Babys, dann die verkohlten Leichen aus einer abgestürzten Cessna. Tempe Brennan hat einen schwierigen Fall zu lösen, und sie hat keine Anhaltspunkte als eine Handvoll bloßer Knochen.

Autor

Kathy Reichs, geboren in Chicago, ist Professorin für Soziologie und Anthropologie und unter anderem als forensische Anthropologin für das gerichtsmedizinische Institut der Provinz Quebec tätig. Romanveröffentlichungen. Die Autorin lebt in Charlotte und Montreal.

© Catherine Sebastian

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780743246316
• ISBN-10: 0743246314
• Artikelnr.: 12203168

Rezensionen

From Publishers Weekly

Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she is awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she is called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitors infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains (" Human? I am not sure ") are discovered by Brennans dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennans vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two

people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempes dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

A giant step up from her lackluster Grave Secrets (2002), Reichs latest puts her right up there with Patricia Cornwells early Kay Scarpetta mysteries. The similarities are obvious--single woman forensic specialist (Reichs character is Tempe Brennan, who splits her time between North Carolina and Canada) with a daughter, a romantic interest, a generally repellent but perspicacious detective in the background, and an abundance of gory detail and science fact. This time Tempe is in North Carolina, poking her keen investigative nose into what seems at first to be an alarmingly sprawling mess that includes everything from bear bones to a headless corpse. But unlike in Grave Secrets, Reichs manages to pull mostly everything together here (though not without a quick fix or two), and her characters dedication, intelligence, dry wit, and femininity (her romance with Andrew Ryan, lieutenant-detective of the Surete du Quebec, takes a pleasant leap forward) really shine through. A comeback that is definitely hard to put down.
Stephanie Zvirin