Thursday, July 12, 2012

Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs

I remembered the beginning of this one. Tempe is hiking out to the site of a plane crash and seeing bodies and parts of bodies strewn grotesquely everywhere. And apparently, that is all I remembered of it.

The investigation into the plane crash is only background for the real meat of the story. Of course, it is also the device for getting Ryan on the scene - as his partner had been escorting a prisoner back to Quebec and he and the prisoner were passengers. The real mystery is far darker and more perverse than a mere air disaster killing 88 people including both the boys and girls soccer teams from some university or other.

Tempe stumbles on a body part unrelated to the crash, and suddenly she is the subject of a systematic campaign to discredit her. And the bodies continue to pile up.

In happy news, we have a new continuing character in the person of Boyd the chow. Tempe and her ex have a joint custody arrangement regarding the cat, Bird, and Boyd now joins the party. Ex-husband, Pete, has inherited Boyd from a client he unsuccessfully defended, who is now serving a somewhat lengthy sentence. Last minute changes of plans send Boyd to the crash investigation with Tempe - and very fortunately so, because he saves her life when the bads catch up with her.

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