Bones Never Lie ( Temperance Brennan 17)

Author/Guide: Kathy Reichs

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2000s: Grisly and macabre – places best seen from the comfort of your armchair

ISBN: 978-0099558071
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

Dr. Temperance Brennan is called to deal with perhaps one of he most shocking murders of her career – there have been a series of child murders in the USA – and someone from Brennan’s past is thought to be behind them.

Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, before narrowly eluding capture. He seems to have resurfaced in Vermont and North Carolina. Along with her colleague Andrew Ryan, they hope to finally end this reign of terror and get justice for the families.

This is a dangerous case and a battle of wills with evil itself.

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The murder of children is particularly difficult and harrowing to read about so only the places of work have been mentioned for an indication of where the action of the police investigation takes place.

There is one more cheerful location we picked out and that was the Penguin Drive-through diner. Mentioned by Brennan herself, we see this as a way of eating like a police investigator and seeing a side to the city that the locals do.

Murdered children in Montreal. Murdered children in Vermont, possibly Charlotte. The unthinkable. The horrific possibility that Anique Pomerleau was active again.

Streetview Maps

1) North Carolina University (part of)
Important to the investigations

3) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

Booktrailer Review

Susan @thebooktrailer

First thing that I must say here is that you don’t really have to have read the earlier books which mentions the past interaction between Tempe and Anique Pomerleau. It helps as it adds an extra sense of doom and fear but this history and tempe’s experience was all neatly woven in to this book.

Tempe and Andrew Ryan – now there’s an interesting relationship. Love reading about these two and their interactions add many a new dimension to the overall plot.

Of course the forensics are the star of the show so to speak and while I normally love this, I did find many parts of this books hard to read since the deaths of children are never easy to think about let alone read about. However this does add a different and more harrowing voice to the novel and the strong forensic notes and the strong writing really does the difficult subject justice.

Kathy Reichs’ descriptions are really gripping but that is the horror of this book – it could be real, Kathy writes about forensics from the inside and that depravity knows no bounds. Fiction really is as strange as fact sometimes!