Bones to Ashes

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Bones to Ashes
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First edition (US)
Author Kathy Reichs
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Temperance Brennan
Genre Crime
Publisher Scribner (US)
Heinemann (UK)
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7432-9437-9
Preceded by Break No Bones  
Followed by Devil Bones  

Bones to Ashes is the tenth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

Contents

The plot begins with Brennan receiving a box of old bones, and brings up an unsolved mystery from her childhood when one of her friends vanished; the case involves child pornography and the pursuit of a killer. [1] [2]

Plot

The opening two chapters provide details of Brennan's childhood and her holiday friendship on Pawleys Island, South Carolina, with an Acadian girl, Evangeline Landry, who mysteriously disappeared in her early teens.

Years later, while working at the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Brennan hears from Sergent-enqueteur Hippolyte "Hippo" Gallant about a box of human bones that she begins to suspect could be Evangeline's remains, and investigates them alongside her routine forensic work. Lieutenant-Detective Andrew Ryan, Brennan's regular co-worker and sometime lover, is involved in a case with three missing and two dead girls, and calls on her to help.

Meanwhile Brennan's husband Pete, from whom she has long been separated, decides to divorce her for a woman 20 years younger than he is, and her sister Harry comes to visit and becomes involved in the search for Evangeline.

As Brennan, Harry, Ryan and Hippo follow the leads they find links to a child pornography ring, and visit Tracadie on the Acadian Peninsula and Quebec City before the plot climaxes on the outskirts of Montreal.

Reviews

Entertainment Weekly found it chilling and the scientific details credible, scoring it B+. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Roz Shea, Book Reporter, January 11, 2011, http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/bones-to-ashes
  2. 1 2 Paul Katz, Entertainment Weekly, Aug 24, 2007, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20052792,00.html
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