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Grave Secrets
by: Kathy Reichs

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099307303
ISBN: 0099307308
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 6602

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Kathy Reichs publishers' comparisons of her with the mega-selling Patricia Cornwell are based on the fact that more and more people (readers, critics, other writers) are calling her better than Cornwell! On the evidence of Reichs' splendid new novel, Grave Secrets the answer is yes--particularly as several recent Cornwell titles have been misfires.

Reichs' speciality is the powerfully realised female protagonist: Dr Temperance Brennan is the best of the many forensic specialists rubbing shoulders in the genre at present: she's professional (never, of course, fazed by her often grisly work), forceful in everything but her messy private life. This time, Tempe travels to the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya tracking the bodies of 23 women and children dumped in a mass grave. But while digging in the pit of death, Tempe finds the present contains further horrors: four girls have gone missing from Guatemala city--and one of them is the daughter of an ambassador. Soon Tempe is up against both a recalcitrant district attorney and municipal corruption, grimly aware that there are those who want the deaths in both the past and the present to remain a mystery.

What makes this such a distinguished addition to the Reichs library (in a class with such winners as Death du Jour) is the brilliantly realised Guatemalan locales. Not many thriller writers can evoke comparison with such masters of foreign climes as Graham Greene, but Reichs pulls it off with aplomb. The web of deceit that Dr Brennan encounters is satisfyingly tangled, and the unravelling of the mystery has all the quirky energy of Reichs at her most stylish. Perhaps future Brennan outings will have to bring in new personal elements for the heroine to avoid staleness, but Grave Secrets has everything in place for the most diverting of reading experiences. --Barry Forshaw

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Just felt like something was missing....
I liked this book but it just was n't quite there. I felt like parts of the story were not elaborated enough , could have been better. Just an okay book. Will give the author another try though.

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- Guaranteed to Give you Nightmares
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 ... Read More:

Rating:

- Too technical
I forced myself to finish this book despite finding most of it being too technical for my liking.
Certainly not the most exciting of her books and the ending is left up in the air.

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- Blanked Out
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is in Guatemala to dig up the remains in mass graves. Meanwhile, four young women are missing, including the daughter of the Canadian ambassador. And how does stem cell research fit into all this? Well, I must've blanked out during that stage, but it sure was nice to see my city, Melbourne (in Australia), get a mention! (A)

Rating:

- Bare Bones -Kathy Reichs
Bare Bones will keep you on the edge of your seat, once I started to read it I couldn't put it down, I had to keep turning the pages to see what happened next and I wasn't disappointed.

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