I’ve been reading books by Kathy Reichs’ for many, many years now and I find it truly remarkable how she manages to create so many unique and ingenious storylines, that are so intriguing and entertaining. 

 

“Fire and Bones” is impressively book twenty three in her highly successful and popular, forensic anthropologist, ‘Temperance Brennan’ series. As Tempe investigates a mysterious arson attack in Washington DC, which claims the lives of four people, she realises that the building’s chequered history may have more to do with the attack than first thought. 

 

Reichs’ has superbly researched the Warring brothers and their ‘Foggy Bottom Gang’, with their bootlegging business dating back to the thirties and forties, to create a fictional story that ties a modern day crime with historical connotations to the gang. Using the author’s own experience as a forensic anthropologist, she has skilfully crafted a story using fire and how it affects the human body when exposed to it. Nothing is held back in the descriptions but I found it interesting and was paramount to revealing the causes of death throughout the book. 

 

Kathy Reichs is one of my favourite authors, alongside Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwell, I love her style of writing and storytelling. Concise, humorous, self deprecating and hugely talented, Tempe Brennan is a genuinely relatable character, who can’t fail to win the hearts of crime thriller readers of all ages. 

 

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