Two Nights

by Kathy Reichs

Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct ...

Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing.

But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie’s help.

Is the girl dead?

Did someone take her?

If she is out there, why doesn't she want to be found?

It's time for Sunnie to face her own demons - because they might just lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

With Kathy Reichs, the reader knows that they are in the hands of an expert. As a forensic anthropologist, 1 of only 82 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board, Reichs’ real-life expertise has given her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill for. From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her lab, no one is better qualified to write about what it’s really like to catch the killer and solve the crime.

• ISBN10: 0434021113
• ISBN13: 9780434021116
• Publish Date: 29 June 2017
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 17 May 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: William Heinemann Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[chymerra]

I am going to be pretty blunt here. I have never read a book by Kathy Reichs before. Nope, haven’t read the Temperance Brennan series. So I am going into this review of Two Night as a new reader to this author and what I say in this review might not be a popular opinion or go with the flow of the other reviews.

I don’t think that Sunnie was supposed to be a likable character. She was too brash and tended to rub me the wrong way while reading. But, I actually enjoyed it. I liked that there was a female main character who was extremely flawed physically (she got stabbed in the eye and lost 30% of her sight) and she carried psychological scars from her time in a cult and overseas. It gave her depth that I rarely see in female main characters in this genre.

I did like that Sunnie was kind of forced to open up and rely on people during her investigation into the disappearance of Opaline’s granddaughter, Stella. She called her twin brother, Gus, in to help her when things got a bit out of control in Chicago and then she had to rely on the local police to thwart a terrorist attack and save Stella. Speaking of Stella, I really felt bad that Sunnie got so emotionally involved in finding her. In a way, I feel that she used Stella’s investigation to come to terms with her own awful past.

There was a parrell storyline to the main one. This storyline was heartbreaking. Not going to get into it too much but I will say this, I couldn’t figure out if the author was talking about Stella or Sunnie until almost the end of the book.

The end of the book was what I expected and then some. I liked the closure that all the storylines got and I am hoping that the author writes another book with Sunnie as her heroine. I would be very interested to see what future books would hold for her.

How many stars will I give Two Nights: 3.5 (rounded up to 4 for Goodreads)

Why: Good book with a fast-paced plot and great storylines

Will I reread: Yes

Will I recommend to family and friends: Yes

Age range: Adult

Why: Language and violence

**I chose to leave this review after reading an advance reader copy**

[pagesbycyndy]

This is a  new series, I think anyway, by this author. I actually picked this one because I have read and enjoyed all of the Tempe Brennan books. I was expecting something maybe along those lines but I was wrong. Sunday Night is nothing at all what I thought she would be like, which is actually fine and does work well for this book. To say that I loved this new character is wrong, I was not crazy about Sunday Night, I actually liked August "Gus" Night better. Sunday is a bit too much of everything, in my opinion, too angry , too ballsy , too tough acting , she almost comes off as trying too  hard to be this gritty hard as nails bad ass woman. The plot itself, find the granddaughter, kidnapped in an explosion,  of a cantankerous wealthy older woman who hates everyone was a bit slow for me. Sunday is racing against time to stop another bomb plot and find the people responsible. This sounds like it would be fast paced and exciting but it fell short for me. Sure the story line and characters are solid as pertains to the plot and the book itself is very well written and a quick read so for that gave it three stars.

I am not sure if there is another book in this series I will read it but who knows. This was fast paced and a solid plot but for me it did not really work.This review was originally posted on Cindy's Book Binge