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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was a big disappointment after Reichs' [book:Fatal Voyage]. Our heroine, Tempe Brennan, has lost much of her depth, and is beginning to resemble Stephanie Plum, what with her shallow thought processes and multiple boyfriends (one anglo, one latin, both in law enforcement). Throw in a wacky grandmother, replace Tempe's cat with a hamster, and [author: Janet Evanovich] would be calling her lawyer.Reichs seems to have gotten lazy in her attempts to integrate real anthropology into her storytelling. Someone ought to tell her that she can't just lift paragraphs from one of her Journal of Forensic Anthropology articles, throw quotation marks around it, and call it dialogue. (  ) catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 |  Formula writing. Solutions are expository when they should unfold naturally. (  ) Elleneer | Oct 1, 2009 | Very happy that this time not ALL of the cases were neatly intertwined. Huzzah for some red herrings! BUT I’m torn over Ryan. Love me some Andrew Ryan, but his involvement in this book made zero sense. Ah well, I’ll overlook due to the excellent romantic subplot :) (  ) ph8 | Apr 6, 2009 | Kathy Reichs manages to make scientific facts and issues very easy to grasp and does it all in a neat little 'thriller/mystery' package with an engaging storyline to boot. I really adore this series. (  ) Alera | Dec 5, 2008 | Grave Secrets filled a couple warm evenings and left me disappointed that tale was over. I look forward to digging into my stack of books for another by Kathy Reichs, a forenisic anthropologist turned author. There is a smigen of preaching (easily ignored) when the author's political bent bleeds through her pen. (  ) Grandeplease | Nov 11, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0671028383, Mass Market Paperback)Temperance Brennan is helping her Guatemalan colleagues identify the remains of villagers who were "disappeared" 20 years ago when she's called in to consult on four more recent disappearances. Is there a serial killer loose in Guatemala City, or is the fate of the young women who've gone missing--including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador--connected to the murder of a human-rights investigator looking into the decades-old massacre? Brennan, the protagonist of Reichs's popular series, is literally hip-deep in intrigue, between the well in Chupan Ya where she unearths the bones of women and children slain in Guatemala's bloody civil war and the septic tank in the capital where the remains of one of the missing girls turn up. Tempe is a standout in crime fiction's crowded field of forensics experts--she's one of its more complex and interesting protagonists, dealing with intriguing cases that often cross national borders and a personal life that's rich in possibilities the author skillfully exploits. Tempe--and Reichs--just keep getting better. --Jane Adams(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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