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Informationen zum Autor Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead , published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. The Bone Code is Kathy’s twentieth entry in her series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones , which is based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal, Québec. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs. Klappentext Forensic scientist Tempe Brennan isn't happy: it's freezing in Montreal! her detective boyfriend is giving her the cold shoulder and her macho colleagues won't take her seriously. When Reichs's heroine is called in toexamine three skeletons discovered in the basement of a pizza parlor at the start of the seventh installment in this popular series! her instinctstell her a crime was recently committed. Chauvinistic homicide detective Luc Claudel doesn't agree! but Tempe forges ahead and soon discovers that the victims are young women! probably teenagers killed sometime in the 1980s. Already feeling vulnerable because she's left her beloved daughter! Katy! back home in North Carolina! Tempe is further troubled by the indifference of formerly avid lover Andrew Ryan (another Montreal detective). Meanwhile! new developments lead Tempe and her reluctant colleagues to suspect a creepy former pawn store owner of serial kidnappings! torture and grisly murder. What's best about Reichs! and often unappreciated in reviews! is not the informative detail that she brings to Tempe's forensic sleuthing! though that's certainly engrossing. It's the same well-observed detail and incisive analysis applied to other aspects of the story. Tempe deconstructs Ryan's every evasive gesture and casual comment and describes an ominously darkened room! the glow from a UV light and an armada of snow plows with vivid precision. Here! as previously! readers will be as invested in Tempe's life as in her case. Zusammenfassung Temperance Brennan! forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec! has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes! but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now! the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there? When did they die? Homicide detective Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic. Not his case! not his concern. But when Tempe examines the bones in her lab! she establishes approximate age with Carbon 14. Further study of tooth enamel tells her where the women were born. If she's right! Claudel has three recent murders on his hands. Definitely his case. Detective Andrew Ryan is acting mysteriously. What are those private phone calls he takes in the other room! and why does he suddenly disappear just when Tempe is beginning to hope he might be a permanent part of her life? Looks like more lonely nights for Tempe and Birdie! her cat. As Tempe searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives! she finds herself drawn deep into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Women have disappeared! never to return...Tempe may be next. ...
