Also, Lisa, Tempe’s Montreal assistant has aquamarine eyes. (In previous books, it’s established that Tempe’s daughter has green eyes). Green Eyes (only 2% of the real world, yet it seems like 90% of all fictional females): YES One of the victims, Robert Galloway, has green eyes.

Thank you to Scribner and NetGalley for a free advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review! Oh! And thank you for telling me what a potcake is! Kathy Reichs is as witty and clever as ever, producing an original and thrilling story with her star main character, who is strong, intelligent, decisive and worthy of this continuing series. Suddenly, Tempe has been caught up in serial killer territory and possibly bureaucratic coverups (gotta keep the tourists ignorant of bad things). Tempe volunteers and a boat of dead men is also discovered ashore. There’s been a number of handsome vacationing missing young men (bad for tourism) and two sets of bones still are in situ waiting for an off-island expert. Brennan in a tropical setting in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).Ī bizarre case in Montreal has connections in TCI and the savvy police superintendent there, Tiersa Musgrove, sees an opportunity to coax the forensic anthropologist to the islands. As long time readers know, Tempe divides her time between Montreal and Charlotte, but instead of Canadian snow or Old South charm, we get to see Dr. “The Bone Hacker” is the 22nd installment of the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan series and the excellent quality and storytelling has remained steady since 1999. It isn’t long before the sound of a ticking clock grows menacingly loud.

Disturbingly, she discovers evidence that what’s at stake may actually have global significance. Do these attacks have something to do with the islands’ seething culture of gang violence? Tempe isn’t so sure. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the odd places where their bodies turn up, and the fact that none seems likely to have been involved in criminal activity. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Seven years earlier, the first victim was found in a strange location with his left hand hacked off subsequently, two other visitors vanished without a trace. Young men-tourists-have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which a new technology may wreak worldwide havoc.Ĭalled in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case.

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