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Title: Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0-671-02838-3 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (45 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A little misguided
Comment: This is the first and only book of this author/series I have read and this is what I like about the book:
-The locations, moving from Guatemala to Montreal is very interesting.
-The character of Tempe Brennan is not the typical self obsessed character Ihave found in Patricia Cornwell novels.
Things I don't like about it:
-The descriptions of forensic work seem more like a study guide. It is as if the author is out to prove she knows her business. The knowledge is impressive but it would be better if it were written more as a part of the story rather than a sudden departure into a textbook.
-The story tends to lose focus and several of the characters and diversions are a bit pointless.
Overall, it was a decent story but not very engaging.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful, thrilling book!
Comment: Kathy Reichs is fast becoming one of my very favorite authors and this book is no exception. Usually her main character, Tempe Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, stays in the USA or in Canada within each book, but this time she is in Guatemala in a village called Chupan Ya, where a terrible incident happened in 1982. Soldiers invaded the village, raping the women, then killing them and the children there.
Although this was a well-known incident, no records were kept and Tempe joins up with the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation to uncover the graves and recover the bones of the dead.
Things get off to a bang when the team is packing up for the day and get a satellite phone call from two of their colleagues, who are driving towards the city. While talking, Tempe hears other voices, screams, shots, then nothing. The man is dead, but the woman is rushed to the hospital and goes into a coma.
Dealing with this is bad enough, then Tempe is asked by the Guatemalan police to help with a case they've been working on - four well-to-do young women have mysteriously vanished from Guatemala City in recent months and none of their bodies have been found, nor have any of them turned up alive. One of the woman is the daughter of the Canadian ambassador, which is why Tempe thinks she's been asked to help. But it's the discovery of a body in a septic tank that is the real reason - Tempe had worked on a case before involving a body found in a septic tank.
She reluctantly agrees to assist and finds some cat hairs and fetal bones in the tank among a young woman's remains. For whatever reason, she tucks some of the cat hair and fetal bones in her pocket and it's a good thing she did, because the remains are suddenly whisked away from further investigation
Frustrated, but not about to give up, Tempe sends the hair off to a colleague who knows cat hairs, asks questions of the families of the missing young women and begins to realize there just might be a connection to the Chupan Ya massacre and these current disappearances. Plus, the ambush of her colleagues in the car may not have been meant for them, but for her instead.
There are plenty of twists and turns in this book, and Katherine Borowitz, who has read almost all of Kathy Reich's other books, does an outstanding job of putting you right in the middle of this must-read (or must-hear) thriller.
Rating: 5
Summary: Guaranteed to Give you Nightmares
Comment: Tempe is in Guatemala, helping to unearth the bodies of 28 villagers disappeared (killed by the govt.) during the civil war there. Two of her colleagues are attacked, one dies. Tempe has to be careful, as there could still be people in the government that were involved in the massacre.
Then she gets involved with the disappearance of four girls, one of them the daughter of the Canadian ambassador and all of a sudden the authorities that were so eager for her help with the decomposing bodies of the villagers want her out of Dodge.
To add to the plot there is a Latin love interest who just happened to go to school with old flame Ryan who comes to Guatemala because one of the four missing girls is the daughter of the Canadian Ambassador.
This book seemed somehow different than Reichs' previous four. That's not bad, an author should change and grow. Tempe seems to have a little more punch. Also this book starts off on a dark note that lasts throughout, but with Reich's detailed description of the death pit, how could it not be dark.
A word of caution, don't read this five star thriller before dinner, especially the secptic tank part, because it'll definitely throw you off your feed. Don't read it before bed either, because if you do, nightmares are guaranteed. Read it on a rainy day, then watch an episode of the Honeymooners to get it out of your system.
Review submitted by Katie Osborne
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Title: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028375 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671028367 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bare Bones : A Novel by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0743233468 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Deja Dead by Kathleen J. Reichs, Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671011367 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs ISBN: 0671011375 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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