Kathy Reichs

Receiving mysterious clues about a shooting murder in Montreal, Tempe Brennan wonders if the victim may have been a Jewish black market antiquities trader and teams up with detective Andrew Ryan and biblical archaeologist Jake Drum for a dangerous investigation in Israel. By the author of Monday Mourning. Reprint.

Cross Bones

Sarah Sammis

Cross Bones has two distinct parts and two distinct mysteries. The first part takes place in Montreal and centers around the execution style shooting of an antiquities dealer. The second part takes place in Israel and focuses on a 2000 year old corpse who is possibly related St. James Ossuary.

The Montreal bits I tore through. I loved the details of the mystery, the cultural clashes and Temperance's goofy friends (who are similar to but different Bones, the series). This half of the book entertained me enough that I still want to read the other book in the series that I have on my TBR shelf.

Had the book only taken place in Israel I would have tossed it aside unfinished. The pacing is off in this bit of the book. I know Temperance is supposed to have tons of experience traveling around the world doing her special field of forensics but she seemed so out of place in the field. Plus there were all these ridiculous action scenes that left me rolling my eyes.

Briar's Reviews

Another dead body, another Kathy Reichs mystery!

This novel revolves around religion, and could be compared to a Da Vinci Code of the death and crime world. If anyone is interested in religion, and enjoys crime novels, this book would be for them! Orthodox Jewish, Christianity and other religions are mentioned and described in this book along the way. It is not the typical Kathy Reichs book since religion is one of the main focuses, but overall it was a good novel! 

Andrew Ryan is a big helper in this novel, and to me it seemed like he was involved more in this novel than some of the previous ones. Romance is slightly involved in this novel, but it more along the lines of 48% religion, 48% crime and 2% romance.

I found this book very boring, due to the constant talk of religion. I would have liked to learn more about bones and what the different markings meant for the different era skeletons. There was far to much religious talk and descriptions for my liking.

Five out of five stars, nonetheless! Kathy Reichs made a book that kept me interested and wanting to continue reading the next book!

Mia McCoy

Cortni Bell

'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the on-scene assessment, but the victim's relatives are adamant in their rejection of suicide as an explanation. Discovered in a closet, a week after death, the body is barely recognisable. Extreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and Dr Temperance Brennan's forensic expertise is required.|PB

Kate Lillie

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Kristen Claiborn

Stephanie Shaw

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Tracie McMurray

Temperance Brennan is called in to interpret the wounds of a man who was shot in the head, but while she tries to make sense of the fracture patterning, an unknown man slips her a photograph of a skeleton, telling her it holds the answer to the victim's death.