Book Review - Flash and Bones - Kathy Reichs

Title:      Flash and Bones                 

Author:  Kathy Reichs

Review:  This is an author that I count the days until her next book.  I love the writing, the mystery and the suspense, even with all the professional jargon.  The murders are explained after finding the bodies, letting the bones do the talking.  It’s amazing that our bones can tell so much about us, I don't know how anyone gets away with murder now days.  I learn something new with each book and the personal relationships make the reading all the more enjoyable.

I love the TV series ‘Bones’ which is based on her books, yet hardly anything like the characters in the books.  This is a series for everyone to read and enjoy.  I missed Ryan a bit in this book, he was there but not for much time.  In Spider Bones he played a much larger part.   If you like police procedurals and mysteries you will love this author.  Great writing, good flow and a mystery to keep you guessing.

Publisher:  Published August 23rd 2011 by Scribner

Copyright: 2011

Pages:  278 pages

ISBN:  1439102414

Quick Review:  4 Stars out of 5. 

Why I Read it:  I love this author.

Where I Obtained the Book:  Requested it from Bookswap on Goodreads.

Synopsis:  Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble’s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi’s? Or Cale’s?

At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can’t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?

A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs’s “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication—and her most recent novel, Spider Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller—Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.

 

Author Biography:  Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of anthropology at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Reichs is a native of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. at Northwestern. She now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.

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