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    Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel
    Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel
    Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel
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    Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel

    Written by Kathy Reichs

    Narrated by Linda Emond

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking.

    When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl’s body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered?

    The medical examiner has also asked Tempe to examine a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies confiscated by U.S. Customs. A Desert Storm veteran named Dominick Rockett stands accused of smuggling the objects into the country. Could there be some connection between the trafficking of antiquitiesand the trafficking of humans?

    As the case deepens, Tempe must also grapple with personal turmoil. Her daughter Katy, grieving the death of her boyfriend in Afghanistan, impulsively enlists in the Army. As pressure mounts from all corners, Tempe soon finds herself at the center of a conspiracy that extends all the way from South America, to Afghanistan, and right to the center of Charlotte. “A genius at building suspense” (Daily News, New York), Kathy Reichs is at her brilliant best in this thrilling novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    ISBN9781442361829
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    Kathy Reichs

    Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Fire and Bones is Reichs’s twenty-third novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Reichs was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Reichs divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs, Instagram @KathyReichs, or Facebook @KathyReichsBooks. 

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    • 1/5
      It's not that this is a bad book! The book is 5stars but whomever uploaded this messed it up - there are huge sections missing and it is so annoying I stopped listening with 4 hours still left on the book.
      Just FYI
    • 3/5
      It has been awhile since I have read a book by Kathy Reichs, and Bones of the Lost reminded me why. While I did enjoy the book, I just no longer felt the way I used to when a new Temperance Brennan novel would be released. Bones of the Lost is the 16th in Reichs’ series and will probably be my last in this series.
    • 3/5
      I almost rated this novel 4 stars, but I think that was because I really like Temperance Brennan - most of the time. I liked this story and I found her foray into Afghanistan interesting, but at the back of my mind I felt something was missing. Again we have parallel investigations and I'm not always thrilled with those. It was a good read though. I'm not sorry I read it.
    • 5/5
      Thank you, my former professor, for shining a light on this pandemic called Human Trafficking. You did an excellent job. —-A former Student at UNCC 1999-2000
    • 2/5
      I was going to give this a half-hearted three star rating until I reached the end of the book. Two very separate plot lines converged in an insanely un-foreshadowed and far-too-coincidental way and it pissed me right off. That was simply poor writing.At this point, the author seems to just be phoning it in. Most of the book was Tempe asking herself strings of questions or thinking in endless sentence fragments. Ryan literately randomly shows up on her doorstop and then disappears 15 minutes later. There's so little forensic anthropology that this volume seemed like a straight up detective novel compared to the rest of the series. I think I'm done with this series, after enjoying the last few books less and less.
    • 4/5
      With Reich's niche specialty, it's tough to get bored! I like that, despite a topic that could easily get gory, she treads carefully in gruesome descriptions; she uses them parsimoniously and only for effect.This is a fast paced novel with a staccato style to keep the momentum. I enjoyed the scenes in Afghanistan giving insight into military deployments. There were some subplots that seemed unnecessary, like Ryan and Pete's wedding (fans, no doubt, follow those plots through the series), but overall, I was hooked enough and couldn't put the book down.The denouement relies a bit too much on coincidence for my taste, but the action is enthralling and I just let myself be carried by the plot... I don't often physically react while reading, but at one point, I actually jumped so engrossed was I in the story!
    • 5/5
      This book was stunning, brilliant imagery use, I genuinely feared for lives reading this book. Kathy Reichs has done it again. Bones of the Lost was fantastic. You will never see that bad guy coming, ever. And I pride myself on always seeing what's around the corner.
    • 2/5
      In this novel, Tempe is working two different cases, one involving a recently killed teenage girl and another, about two nationals in Afghanistan, whose remains were reduced to mostly skeletons. The plot meanders between the two, with Tempe determined to get justice for the young girl. By the time the story drew to its conclusion, my interest had dwindled. If it weren’t for the suspense of knowing if the cat survived, this book would have had little to offer. A bit of a stretch to call it suspenseful or thrilling, it also had little to do with forensics. And really, Tempe should take better care of her cat!
    • 4/5
      When police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? Tempe finds herself at the center of a conspiracy that extends from South America, to Afghanistan, and right to the center of Charlotte.
    • 4/5
      I like her alot bc she is not redundant-where some authors repeat their self over and over again, i dont have to worry about that with her writing.
    • 4/5
      The 16th (!) entry in the series about forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. I am a relative latecomer to reading this series, although I watched the television show that is (loosely) based on it from the time it first started way back when. I liked the show and I like the books, but I don't feel they have much in common. (For those who are unfamiliar with either: Temperance Brennan in the books is not nearly as robotic/gruff/rude as she is in the TV version; the book Brennan also does not work in Washington, D.C., with the FBI but rather splits her time between Charlotte, S.C., and Montreal, Quebec.) I like forensic mysteries, and these are decent if not spectacular. I would put them a cut or two above the Body Farm series that I reviewed in #12, if you'd like a comparison.
    • 3/5
      This is a middling Tempe Brennan novel: it's good enough to keep a committed reader of the series happy for a few hours, but not good enough to make the reader forget just how long she has been reading these novels. Tempe's personal life is always of interest (that's certainly one thing that keeps me hooked) and remains tempest-tossed in this installment, with her daughter off to serve in Afghanistan, her ex-husband sniffing round, and her mother gravely ill. But that doesn't keep her away from the matter at hand -- bones. This installment sets off with two sets of bones, one belonging to an unclaimed dead girl left by the side of the road, and another to a group of (a new note, here) mummified dogs. The plot, of course, thickens, leading Tempe into a series of parallel investigations at home, and to another investigation in -- Afghanistan. (Yes, the Afghan interlude does feel a bit imposed). All the loose ends come together at the end, also of course. That's the product as expected, but the author sometimes seems to be getting a little mechanical in producing it. The short, incomplete sentence is overused, and some of the suspense seems manufactured (will Tempe's daughter call her?). It seems unfair to complain; the umpteen novels in this series have given me a lot of pleasure. But the same old, same old isn't quite so satisfying the upmteenth time around.
    • 3/5
      im losing interest in her novels , talks too much of her canadian qualifications
    • 5/5
      A day that begins with a call to jury duty and just gets worse leads to investigation of smuggled antiquities and a young woman hit and run case with implications to a case six months previous. To further complicate her life, a favour is requested that requires a quick trip to Afghanistan, enabling a brief visit with her daughter. And the story gets more complicated: human trafficking and prostitution. This is a typical Temperence Brennan novel full of intrigue and personal insights. As soon as one is finished, you want to read another.
    • 4/5
      I received a copy from Netgalley.

      My first Temperance Brennan book. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. An extremely well plotted mystery...well, two mysteries wrapped up into one with seemingly no connection whatsoever.

      Intriguing and fast paced, and while there was a lot of technical information in both the forensic side and military side, I particularly liked that it wasn't over bearing and info dumping. It fit well with the tone of the novel and voice of Dr Brennan.

      I found Dr Brennan herself to be an extremely likable, relatable and respectable character. Evident immediately in the first body found, a nameless girl on a dark road, dismissed by the police as an illegal, probably a hooker. She's determined to find a name for the girl and an answer to what happened. Second case involved a trip to Afghanistan and a shooting by a military lieutenant that was questionable - self defence or on purpose? They need Dr Brennan to look at the bodies and find out which.

      Quite interesting to see an outsiders POV on how everything with the military works over there and how the forensic stuff was carried out amid great danger.

      Then back into the US to pick up on the Jane Doe.

      Everything works together really well, and I loved the tone of the novel and the pacing. It had a proper ending and a logical one as well.

      Will definitely be looking at more of these.
    • 5/5
      Kathy Reichs is just fun to read. I did enjoy this title. Reichs has a way with keeping the reader engaged. I might plan to read to the end of a chapter, and when I get there I am left hanging, so I have to read on. I have to admit, when Temp took off to get the bad guy alone, I was a little disheartened; she has always appeared to be smarter than that! But still, it is a great read
    • 3/5
      I was not satisfied with this story. I felt rushed into it, and I didn't understand why Tempe Brennan felt so invested in the hit and run victim from the get go. All the question she kept asking made it tedious. I was also disappointed by the end where I felt the author trying to build up a cliffhanger (again by having her character asking herself a thousand question), it left me feeling more annoyed than on edge.
    • 4/5
      It really sucks that Andrew Ryan only appears briefly in this book and he is so caught up with grief from the death of his daughter that their was no action from him....I sure hope he recovers and comes back to Tempe!
    • 4/5
      Kathy Reichs delivers her usual crime novel with well-researched forensic anthropology and human interest. I prefer her books that are set in Canada and that feature Detective Andrew Ryan and this isn't one of them. Oh well!The body of a young girl with no identification is found at the side of a deserted stretch of road in Charlotte NC. Although Temperance Brennan usually deals with skeletal remains the head of the morgue asks for her help in looking at the injuries this girl sustained. Temperance is sure the girl was murdered, not just randomly hit. The detective investigating the death, Skinny Slidell, is sure the girl is a Mexican illegal who has been working as a prostitute. Temperance is afraid he won't put much effort into the case and she decides to do some follow-up herself. She hasn't gotten very far when she is asked to fly to Afghanistan to exhume two bodies of Afghan men who were killed a year ago by an American soldier. The section set in Afghanistan was quite interesting. I was disappointed that Dr. Reichs didn't mention that Canadian troops were there but other than that it was a great portrayal of what soldiers faced in that war. Everything is wrapped up neatly at the end and that was another problem for me. I don't want to spoil the ending but the linking of the two files Brennan was working on was too far-fetched to be believable. However, I'll probably keep reading the books in this series as they are interesting.
    • 2/5
      Temperance Brennan is back in Kathy Reichs' new book "Bones Of The Lost". Temperance must deal with the body of a teen-age girl that was found along a desolate stretch of two lane highway, a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies, a daughter who enlists in the army after the death of her boyfriend and much, much, much more.I have never read any of the Brennan books so I wasn't prepared for all the different story lines, the technical and medical info.I do admit that it became too much when the author started to throw in all the military terms.I know alot of readers just love this series of books but for me there was too many things going on.
    • 4/5
      Another good entry for this excellent series. Of particular note is her exposition for the evolution of the plot for the book.
    • 4/5
      I love the way Reichs' books focus on contemporary issues and always advocate for those who are powerless. However - spoiler alert - it drives me crazy when divergent plot lines are tied up in a neat package by the end. Life isn't like that, and it's why I stopped reading Patricia Cornwell years ago, despite her lovely way with words.
    • 3/5
      As I stated in my review of Kathy Reichs book written before this one ("Bones are Forever"), I have noticed that the quality of these books is going downhill. This one seemed to start strong and it showed promise. The first third of the book was pretty good. It started with a hit and run death of a young unidentified girl. The death didn't look right to Tempe, so she and her somewhat strange sidekick Slidell were on the hunt for a killer. The second thrid of the book was long, unrelated and seemed to have no connection with the rest of the book. Why did Tempe go to Afghanistan, and why is so much of the book about her time there? I kept reading hoping there would be a connection and after ploughing through pages of stuff that I could have cared less about, I found no connection was put forward. In the third part of the book we do get back to the original story, but when the connection finally comes there are just too many coincidences. When I finished the book, I have to admit that I thought "Thank goodness that's over." I even found that the tension that is usually so evident throughout a Temperance Brennan book was strangely not maintained in this one. I have to say that I'm disappointed, but I did manage to finish the book, so not a total loss for me I guess.
    • 4/5
      There was a time in my reading life where I devoured every 'forensic' novel I could get my hands on - this seemed to coincide with my love of certain television shows of the same ilk. Well, my interest in the TV shows waned and a few of the forensic authors also fell by the wayside. Okay, one of them fell in the ditch. But not Kathy Reichs. Although I haven't read the last few books, I looked forward to picking up her latest book (#16) to feature forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - Bones of the Lost. (Yes, she's the basis of the 'Bones' TV show. As is Reichs, who is a forensic anthropologist herself. Which adds a lot to her books!) Tempe has a set of what may be ancient Peruvian dog bones at the lab waiting to be looked at. They've been confiscated by US Customs from a US war vet who now specializes in the 'import' business. But, when a young girl, killed by an apparent hit and run, is brought in, she takes precedence. What was she doing in the seedy part of town she was found in? Why did she have a piece of ID from a dead man in her purse? And no ID of her own? And finally, her ex-husband Pete begs a favour of her - will she go to Afghanistan to look at a set of bones and testify at a military trial. The incentive? It's at the same camp where their daughter Katy is stationed. Three seemingly disparate cases that Reichs manages to weave together by the final pages. What keeps me reading this series is the main character. I like her. I don't always agree with everything she says or does, but she's real and believable. Her co-protagonist Detective 'Skinny' Slidell is not warm and fuzzy, but is a great addition to the series. The two of them are opposites but play off each other well. And Slidell's one-liners were great. Tempe's personal life continues to be in upheaval and gives the character more depth. But love interest Ryan doesn't make an appearance until the final pages. And he arrives with bad news - which may indeed be a set up for the next book. Reichs has again written a solid mystery, using current topics and headlines to make it time relevant. Solid, but not really new. It seems like I have read this plot line in one form or another already. And maybe that's why it's only a 3.5/5 for me. Because it's solid and somewhat predictable in that we know Tempe is going to solve it all by the end. And this was a bit of a sticky point for me - Tempe seems he** bent on solving everything on her own, damn the torpedoes. She seems to be stepping on detective toes more than using her forensic skills. But hey, it made for good action scenes! But, that's not to say I didn't enjoy it - I did. Bones of the Lost could be read as a stand alone, but I'd recommend starting at the beginning of the series and getting to know the character right from the start.
    • 4/5
      4 StarsDon't like the cover I like the UK better. I am always surprised how much a cover on a ebook makes me either want to look at book or turn me away from one.This is the first Temperance Brennan novel that I have read. I admit to being a fan of the T.V. series Bones. Their is a lot different but a lot the same especially the tone of the book. I hope to be able to read more of Kathy Reich's books in the future.The lead character is Tempe Brennan a forensic anthropologist. She is smart, strong will and determined to find the answers to her case. She travels over to Afghanistan to dig up some remains as evidence on a article 32 hearing. Her daughter is over their serving. I like Tempe Brennan.The characters are believable and some are likable while others are not.The book really does not make me care about the characters and their lives. It does about how many people are sold into slavery each year. Especially females. I wish I could do something to help stop it like Dr. Brennan does.A Teenage's body is found the cause of death is a hit and run accident they think. No one has come forth about who she might be. The police are at a dead end and ask Tempe to look at the bones. She is determined to help find out who she was and who killed her. She even bugs the cop from Afghanistan.She works a few cases at a time some just take hers a few minutes of looking at ex-rays of bones that are wrapped.There is some drama that happens to Dr. Brennan over in Afghanistan also someone threatening her in her home.I liked the book and would read more of them.I was given this ebook to read and asked in return to give honest review of it by Netgalley.08/27/2013 PUB Scribner 336 pages ISBN9781439102459
    • 5/5
      Bones of the Lost opens with Tempe Brennan in the middle of rescuing a young girl being brutalized by an unnamed man. The story then switches to Tempe having to examine the remains of presumed to be centuries old dog skeletons from Peru. Before she knows it, Tempe is in the middle of a smuggling ring, a murder and a military court martial in Afghanistan. One thing long time readers of Kathy Reich’s books learn is that no detail is unimportant. No matter how the story goes from here to there, everything is integral to the story. In this latest book, Tempe is on an emotional tightrope, concerned for her daughter who is a soldier in Afghanistan, worried because she hasn’t heard from Ryan in quite some time, and wondering how her latest case of a young girl literally run over by a car and killed ended up that way. She is juggling so many emotional balls that it doesn’t seem possible that she will keep them all in the air. When she is asked to go to Afghanistan to assist in the defense of a Marine accused of murder, she jumps at the chance to see her daughter while there. While this trip seems on the surface to be unconnected to her other issues, it becomes relevant in a way that will leave the reader totally shocked. I started reading this book and couldn’t put it down as the story was so fast paced I just wanted to keep going. I am always amazed how Ms. Reichs manages to write her book about a current issue, make it interesting and impart so much information at the same time.In her personal life, Tempe continues to struggle with her feelings towards Ryan and her maybe ex-husband Pete. Fans of one man over the other may be a little disappointed with this outing because things get a little more complicated between them all. There is enough backstory in the book for new readers not to feel lost but not to the point that older readers will be bored. As usual, at the end of the book, I am ready for the next one and wishing there was less time between books!
    • 3/5
      This book was confusing to me. On the one hand it was quite a heart wrenching tale, and yet at the same time the narrative seemed off. In a lot of ways it seemed as even while there were parts that pulled at the heart strings, more of the novel's narrative seemed distant too.As usual the story started off with a body. In this case it was a young woman, a Jane Doe, found on the side of the road with wicked injuries. Brennan is in North Carolina for this novel, and is paired with the Detective Slidell, a character that still grates on me a whole lot. Actually, a lot of the characters in the novel were grating, more than usual for a Reichs' novel.The first part of the book was taken up mostly by the Jane Doe case, but it was the second part that was more interesting to me. Brennan went to Afghanistan so that she could help disinter two victims who were killed and figure out how exactly they were killed.Brennan then comes back to the States just as the Jane Doe case heats up and predictably gets stuck deep in it.As I said it was a weird read. Usually when I get into a book really fast, as I did with this one, I blaze through the whole thing. But in the case of this one I actually slowed down as I Read it. It got harder and harder to get through.I love the Brennan series overall, so this slightly bumpy entry in it won't stop me from reading the next one, it wasn't that bad, but it definitely wasn't the best in the series either. And despite the problems I had with the book, it did also actually move the Andrew Ryan plot forward which feels like it hasn't happened in a few booksI got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Scribner hoping that I would review it. (Yeah, duh! Course I would...)
    • 5/5
      In Bones of the Lost, Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist par excellence, once again, sets off to find answers to her latest assignment, figuring out what happened to a young girl found dead along the side of a desolate road. An autopsy does little to answer her questions about whether the deceased was an illegal immigrant/prostitute who was probably murdered and if and how she knew a prominent businessman who perished in a fire a few short months earlier, so Tempe begins a journey to find answers. Additionally, there are several things going on in Tempe’s life that get mixed up in her journey. Her daughter, grieving after the death of her boyfriend in Afghanistan, enlists in the Army and is serving in that same distant country. Her soon to be ex is frustrated that the divorce is not finalized. He also enlists her aid in a legal case where a young marine is accused of killing local nationals in Afghanistan. This book has Tempe traveling to Afghanistan for answers and seeing her daughter briefly while there. Can Tempe find the answers and clues to solve the mystery of the dead girl? Is there any connection between this case and everything else that is going on in her life? The plot unravels at a quick pace, with numerous twists and turns that will keep the reader trying to figure what is going on and how everything is related—if it even is all related. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but, then, I enjoy all of the author’s novels of Temperance Brennan. If you are a fan of hers, this is a must for you. If you have not read her books and are looking for something to stir your interest while reading and to keep you guessing and hurrying to see what happens next, this book is also for you. I received this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.