Kathy Reichs' tenth Temperance Brennan novel, and my eighth. (I skipped a couple. Shocking, I know.)Andrew Ryan is still the handsomest detective in Montreal, and Tempe's personal life continues to mysteriously intertwine with her forensic investigations. There are some genuine surprises, though, and mysteries left unsolved. I'd say this is one of my favorites so far in the series. ( )

Meh. I guess it served its purpose as a killing-time-while-traveling book, but I don't think the bit of new info I learned made up for the exceedingly preposterous plot line involving leprosy in Canada in the present day. Someone working in a leprosy hospital in the 1960s--in a hospital closed down because it was no longer needed--would be well aware that the disease could easily be cured with drugs. Never mind allowing her daughter to contract it. ( )

I'm not very critical when I read Reich's books and this one scratched the itch just fine. ( )

Fast-paced! A joy to read and easy to get lost in. I love this set of novels and Bones to Ashes lived up to my expectations of this series. There were a lot of threads in this very engaging and somewhat personal (for Tempe) plot, and I think the best part of it was that while they were all wrapped up, they weren't all wrapped up as neatly or as together as you would first assume. ( )

This is the tenth book in the series featuring Temperance Brennan on which that awful TV series 'Bones' is based . Why Reichs has any affiliation with this drivel I will never understand. Anyway these are fast paced and full of interesting forensic detail. In this instalment there are three missing persons, three unidentified bodies , all female , all mid teens and is there a serial killer at work? This time it is very personal as one could be a childhood friend who disappeared long ago without trace. Temperance is a great character so flawed as a human being and after so many books it is like visiting an old friend. ( )