Bones to Ashes

BONES TO ASHES: Kathy Reichs: Scribner: 2007: Mystery: 320 pages

This is the 10th book in a series narrated by Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist. An exciting, cerebral read, I enjoyed the mixture of mystery and science in this novel. The story revolves around a cold case of missing and murdered girls. Tempe is wracked with guilt over the disappearance of a childhood friend over 20 years ago. As Tempe works with her ex-lover Ryan on the cases she discovers a connection to her old friend and begins to suspect that she may have been one of the missing girls. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys CSI type reads, but there was one unsavory incident involving child pornography that was painful to read. Interesting to note that the author is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and the producer of Fox's Bones series.

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