Name: Maggie Gordon's review of The Bone Collection by Kathy Reichs
Item: The Bone Collection
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Author: Maggie Gordon

Kathy Reichs

A collection of pulse-pounding tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan--including the untold story of her first case! The #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the hit Fox series Bones, Kathy Reichs is renowned for chilling suspense and fascinating forensic detail. The Bone Collection presents her trademark artistry in this collection of thrilling short fiction. In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs's first novel, Déjà Dead, she at last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. (It all began with a visit from a pair of detectives--and a John Doe recovered from an arson scene in a trailer.) The collection is rounded out with three more stories that take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. No matter where she goes, Tempe's cases make for the most gripping reading. Praise for Kathy Reichs and the Temperance Brennan series "Nobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She's the real deal."--David Baldacci "Kathy Reichs writes smart--no, make that brilliant--mysteries that are as realistic as nonfiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher or Alex Cross."--James Patterson "Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden."--The New York Times Book Review

Four Novellas

The Bone Collection

Maggie Gordon

The Bone Collection is a set of four novellas in the Temperance Brennan series. Three of them have been previously published in e-book form, plus one exclusive novella looking at Temp's first case. Bones in her Pocket was probably the weakest of the lot, quite obviously a paired down plot from a full novel. Swamp Bones suffered a little bit less from this, but was still too fast to really be impactful (the villain twist, for example, wasn't really a satisfying twist). Bones on Ice was the strongest of the four, and it did feel like it fit the novella form quite well. Though I liked part of The First Bones, there was an unnecessary character death that felt like it was being used to manipulate readers instead of further any actual plot. 

If you love Temp's series, The Bone Collection is necessary to complete your collection, but don't expect the stories to be all that strong.

A collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case. The No.1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs is renowned for suspense and fascinating forensic detail. Now she brings that same artistry to her first volume of collected short stories. In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs's very first novel, D�j� Dead, she at last reveals how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. Three more stories take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. No matter where she goes, Tempe's cases make for the most gripping reading.

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