SEPTEMBER 2015 - AudioFile
Narrator Katherine Borowitz returns to the Tempe Brennan series with a finely tuned performance. She reflects the intensity of a crime story that has Tempe collecting human bone fragments from overlooks to Ghost Mountain, while balancing Tempe’s tough personal introspection. North Carolina is the setting for Reichs’s 18th entry featuring the popular forensic anthropologist (also the star of the TV series “Bones”). Colorful characters from the backwoods give Borowitz great material for accents—from web-sleuthing “Lucky” Strike and fanatical preacher Father G. to Tempe’s nemesis, Detective Skinny Slidell. Each accent suits the character to a tee, yet Borowitz keeps the dialogue smart and often funny. She also skillfully adds a slight Canadian burr to Tempe’s Montreal boyfriend and would-be fiancé. Fans who follow the series will be delighted with this strong entry, with its gripping first chapter. Listener newcomers will be easily drawn in by Borowitz’s involving style. R.F.W. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly
06/01/2015
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan doesn’t think very highly of Hazel Strike and her fellow “websleuths,” amateurs who gather online to try and solve crimes and locate missing persons, in bestseller Reichs’s solid 18th novel featuring Brennan (after 2014’s Bones Never Lie). Hazel is convinced that bones in Brennan’s Mecklenburg County, N.C., lab belong to 18-year-old Cora Teague, who disappeared more than three years earlier. Trouble is, no one officially reported Cora missing. Cora’s parents, who belong to a fringe Pentecostal church, claim Cora left town with a boy. Despite little evidence to support Hazel’s theory, Brennan investigates Cora’s family, as well as the boy Cora supposedly left town with, and uncovers some shocking secrets. With Brennan’s beau, Quebec homicide detective Andrew Ryan, in Canada, local deputy Zeb Ramsey lends a hand in the increasingly bizarre—and dangerous—investigation. Brennan’s on-again/off-again relationship with Ryan brings some welcome romantic interest to this multilayered series. Agent: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, William Morris Endeavor. (July)
From the Publisher
Speaking in Bones keeps the suspense high.”—Associated Press
“Temperance’s forensic sleuthing uncovers many secrets, along with a blockbuster psychological surprise.”—The Huffington Post
Library Journal
04/01/2015
Here's a surprise for formidable forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan: an amateur detective named Hazel "Lucky" Strike is convinced that she knows the identity of some cold-case remains in Tempe's laboratory, having found a tape recorder near the spot where the remains were discovered. And Tempe is starting to believe her. Eighteenth in the series.
SEPTEMBER 2015 - AudioFile
Narrator Katherine Borowitz returns to the Tempe Brennan series with a finely tuned performance. She reflects the intensity of a crime story that has Tempe collecting human bone fragments from overlooks to Ghost Mountain, while balancing Tempe’s tough personal introspection. North Carolina is the setting for Reichs’s 18th entry featuring the popular forensic anthropologist (also the star of the TV series “Bones”). Colorful characters from the backwoods give Borowitz great material for accents—from web-sleuthing “Lucky” Strike and fanatical preacher Father G. to Tempe’s nemesis, Detective Skinny Slidell. Each accent suits the character to a tee, yet Borowitz keeps the dialogue smart and often funny. She also skillfully adds a slight Canadian burr to Tempe’s Montreal boyfriend and would-be fiancé. Fans who follow the series will be delighted with this strong entry, with its gripping first chapter. Listener newcomers will be easily drawn in by Borowitz’s involving style. R.F.W. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
