Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel (Temperance Brennan, #16)

by Kathy Reichs

"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring."--Publisher.

• ISBN10: 1439102457
• ISBN13: 9781439102459
• Publish Date: 27 August 2013 (first published 15 August 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Scribner Book Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

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.

[tellemonstar]

A great new Temperance Brennan novel. Review to come soon.