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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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 | When forensic anthropologist Temperence Brennan goes on a dig in Guatemala to identify victims of a harsh regime, one of her colleagues is murdered and another nearly so. Someone is trying to stop something being discovered. This puts Tempe in danger. On a lighter note, she has met detective-sergeant Bartolome (Bat) Galiano who may be a rival to Andrew Ryan in her affections. This novel is not as powerful as her others but still a great read with an intrigueing plot. ( )Violetta | Oct 1, 2008 | Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs Temperence Brennan, Book 5; Crime; 7/10 Strange as it more sound for books about forensic anthropology, Kathy Reichs is my palate-cleanser author. I read her when I need to break from everything else, enjoy the books and can usually read them in a day or two. So I always have the next one on hand ready for when I might want it. This was a bit of a change as it did indeed deal with historial forensic anthropology as well as a modern crime, and the Guatemalan setting was a change from Canada and the US. I particularly like - and I hope this doesn't count as a spoiler - that for a change from many authors, Reichs didn't tie up all her different strands into one single solution, pretty bow included. Instead it was messier, more like real life. I continue to enjoy the series and will read the next one when I again want a break from other books. (  )rocalisa | Sep 20, 2008 | 0.066 seconds to build listing  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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