Upping the Tempe

Bones to Ashes / Kathy Reichs The tenth book in her highly successful Temperance Brennan series.

I enjoy Reichs' storytelling. Her combination of scientific fact with unbelievable action is something that I find strangely compelling. As a forensics nerd from way back (my primary school chemistry experiments the precursor), I enjoy Reichs' science content. Knowing that she has the forensic anthropology background, and that the material is likely to be accurate creates a believability to the story.

However it is the unwieldy, and often outrageous action that I covert. These scenes are often awkward and highly unreal, in that I can't imagine even the most keen forensic anthropologist getting in such situations. My goodness if only my life libraries could be this exciting - I'm sure that there are criminals just waiting to accost me and mine for my meddlesome ways at work. Or not.

Bones to Ashes is a much of the same for Reichs. Tempe is out getting in to all sorts of mischief as she works in Quebec on a case that is causing her to reflect on a past friendship, where the bones aren't giving her the right clues. If you're a fan of Reichs' books you'll enjoy this outing as the formula is much the same. The whole book only took me a couple of hours to read, like all good pulp should.