Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)

by Kathy Reichs

When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.
Tempe learns that the stranger's picture shows bones uncovered during an archeological dig. She discovers the Montreal shooting victim ran an import business that might have fronted for the trade of black market antiquities. Along with Detective Andrew Ryan and biblical archeologist Jake Drum, Tempe travels to Israel to probe the origins of the skeleton and the ancient crypt in which it was found.
They make a startling discovery that raises radical questions about Christ's death and places them squarely in the middle of a swirling controversy. Could one of the tombs really be Christ's last resting place? Or, has someone concocted an elaborate hoax?

• ISBN10: 0743233484
• ISBN13: 9780743233484
• Publish Date: 28 June 2005
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Scribner Book Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

Just...meh.   I spent most of the book wondering what the point was and why I cared enough to keep reading.  Not terrible, just boring.  I did find the parts about Wahhabism very timely given the recent Paris attacks.
 
Overall, a bit of a grind.  I've noticed a lot of this series is on-again, off-again in consistency.  This is one of the off-again books.