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Fatal Voyage
by: Kathy Reichs

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099307204
ISBN: 0099307200
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: March 30, 2002
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 2856

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Tempe Brennan, Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist heroine, often finds herself in physical jeopardy. In Fatal Voyage, her fourth outing, someone is trying to kill her and also to destroy her professional reputation with trumped-up charges of unethical behaviour.

Tempe is called in when a plane full of college athletes goes down in the remoter parts of the forests of North Carolina. She finds herself investigating a spare foot she rescued from coyotes, a foot which is significantly more decomposed than the crash victims and which has symptoms of gout, a disease most of the dead young people had no time to contract. There is a locked house and walled courtyard out in the woods that do not appear on any maps and it seems almost as if her simple knowledge of their being there has offended the powerful of the world.

As always, Kathy Reichs manages to combine a detailed knowledge of who the dead were and how they died with a profound sense of the sadness of things. This is a book that never lets us forget amid the dissections and tests for genetic markers that each human death is that of a tragic and irreplaceable human being. Tempe is one of the more attractive of the current crop of women detectives simply because she is flawed and vulnerable as well as smart, righteous and brave. Reichs never lets you forget that crime novels should acquaint us with good people as well as human evil. --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Brilliant.
As usual, Kathy Reichs has written a book that's gripping and believable, and which has that undeniable ring of authenticity. It's stuffed full of details about forensic anthropology, but the technical stuff never seems forced - it's all presented in a way that's accessible and interesting for all readers, no matter what their knowledge of this highly specialized science. The plot has numerous twists and turns, and an ending that's both surprising and shocking. Highly recommended.

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- Head and Hands above the Rest
Tempe Brennan hears on the radio while driving through North Carolina that a plane has gone down. She rushes to the scene, saves a decomposed foot from a pack of coyotes, finds out foot didn't belong on the plane, was from a much older death. What was it doing there? Why is she suddenly thrown off the team investigating the crash?

And that's just the start of this fast paced, true to life, mystery thriller that will have you up all night, reading with your pulse pounding as you race through the pages.

This five star book is heads and hands above "Deadly Decisions." It's so much better that it's hard to believe the same woman authored them both. It's as if Kathy Reichs knew she let her fans down a little with the last ... Read More:

Rating:

- Another enjoyable episode
The fourth in the series does not disappoint! Enjoyed the change of scenery, and found the pace high and exciting.

On the other hand I found a couple of the superhuman powers of assumption a little hard to swallow, and people being in the right place at the right time is a little too Scooby Doo.

Nonetheless, I did enjoy the outings with Boyd, the Ryan storyline, and would recommend this to fans of the previous 3!

Rating:

- Good - not superb
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book and the plot within it, but for me it was slightly tarnished with a sort of 'look at me' way in which Kathy Reichs explains her knowledge of her subject, at times I really did wonder where it was heading. Comparisons to Cornwell as people have said are obvious, I'm actually more of a Cornwell fan but I do enjoy both, just wish some of Reichs irrelevant detail would be cut down.

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- Tempe Brennan to the rescue...again!
It is my mission to read all of Kathy Reichs novels- this was my third! I'm not big fan of blood and guts on tv but reading it doesn't seem so bad. In this one we find our heroine making her way back from a job adn called to another, an plane crash in the woods. Everything seems straight forward - how did the plane fall from the sky but an extra body part is found-the plot thickens! I couldn't put this book down - I was desperate to find out what was going to happen, then, it dawned on me that these novel all have the same pattern. In the last couple of chapters the guy catches up with Tempe Brennan, knocks her out, ties her up, she escapes, bad guy gets caught by police and the answer becomes clear to Tempe. There are no mega twists and nothing ... Read More:

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