I love Bones the TV show so I decided to start reading Kathy Reich's books.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance "Tempe" Brennan of the Laboratoire de Me dicine Legale in Montreal makes a triumphant second appearance in Reichs's powerful followup to her bestselling debut, Deja Dead. The novel opens atmospherically in a frigid church graveyard as Tempe labors to exhume the century-old remains of a nun so that the Church can posthumously declare her a saint. But the bones aren't where they're supposed to be according to the graveyard map, and there's something suspicious about them when they do turn up. Tempe's caseload multiplies as a house fire proves to be a horrific instance of arson and a university teaching assistant who's recently joined a cult goes missing. The three seemingly individual events begin to braid together, as the doings with the doomsday cult draw Tempe to North Carolina. As in Deja Dead, Reichs--herself a forensic anthropologist--renders comprehensively and believably the cool, tense intelligence of her heroine. A North Carolina native who consults in Montreal only a few months of the year, Tempe still hasn't acclimated to the bone-chilling Northern cold, and if she's come to expect the misogynist attitudes of some of the Canadian officials, she still bristles at them. Also well presented are Tempe's refreshing compassion in the face of relentless autopsies, her ability to describe a corpse with judiciously graphic detail and her penchant for revealing the art behind the science on such matters as the preservation of a corpse's teeth. Reichs's first novel, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, was compared justifiably to the Kay Scarpetta novels of Patricia Cornwell. Soon, Cornwell's novels may be compared to Reichs's. Agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
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I couldn't put his book down! I thought it was great! It was totally exciting, and the scientific jargon never bored me. So much better then the first book, which was kind of flat, and the characters bland and boring. In this book she put some life into both the main character,Tempe, and the other characters. Actually she put almost too much character into the sister character,Harry. Harry was almost too much with her Texas/western jargon dialogue, but it was a blessing that she was in so little of the book. Also the main character wasn't as stupid and weak and full of just stupid decision making like she was in the first book. It was like the author took all the gripes I had about the first book and fixed them in the second. Plus this book was totally exciting, I just couldn't put it down. If the rest of her books are like this, I will be very willing to read the rest of the series.

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