Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs

I just "flashed" on the forensic anthropology grad student and former stand partner of mine who put me on to Kathy Reichs many years ago. Thanks, Amanda, wherever you are.

NASCAR is the setting and a new man has entered the scene. Ryan hasn't totally disappeared - but his presence in this one was only a matter of emails and a couple of phone calls. Charlie Hunt is still in Charlotte, but was working a big case - and according to Katy, Tempe's daughter, has been seen escorting other women around town. I still have trouble accepting a character named "Cotton," though - just a little too southern. And there was all that weirdness about her almost ex-husband and his buxom young fiancee's wedding - it seemed to me far more implausible than the murders.

Reichs does always manage to come up with creative ways to get Tempe almost killed, I wonder if there is a little hostility going on there.

As for the title - not my favorite - the pun is just a little too strained. Good story, though.

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