Break No Bones: A Novel

Overview

To some, the dead are a commodity. For Tempe Brennan, they hold the key to

cracking a horrific crime ring.



Among the ancient remains in a Native American burial ground, Tempe discovers a

fresh skeleton -- and what began as an ordinary teaching stint at an archeology

field school in Charleston, South Carolina, fast becomes a heated investigation

into an alarming pattern of homicides. The clues hidden in the bones lead to a

street clinic where a monstrous discovery awaits, and Tempe -- whose personal

life is in upheaval, with two men competing for her -- can't afford any

distractions as she

pieces together a shattering and terrifying puzzle.

Editorial Reviews

The success of the Fox TV show Bones, based on bestseller Reichs's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (Cross Bones, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in which Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who's a lawyer, appears in town, pursuing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each other--and her ex-husband's inquiry. Reichs's down-to-earth heroine is an appealing creation, who deftly juggles personal problems with professional challenges. Despite the somewhat obvious solution, this novel confirms the series' place in the front rank of the ever-expanding forensic thriller subgenre. (July)
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Author Information

Bio of Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs, like her character Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and currently for the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de medecine legale for the province of Quebec. A professor in the department of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is one of only seventy-nine forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, is past Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. Reichs's first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her novel, Devil Bones, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Scribner

Filesize

723.22 KB

Number of Pages

480

eBook ISBN

1416535217