Bones Never Lie
Kathy Reichs
Bantam, Sep 23 2014, $27.00
ISBN: 9780345544018
Though fighting a bad cold, forensic
anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan arrives at the Charlotte-Meckenberg Law
Enforcement Center for a meeting with Cold Case Unit Chief Honor Barrow. Also attending are Vermont Detective Umpie Rodas,
homicide cop Skinny Slidell and NC SBI Agent Beau Tinker. Rodas explains the known cold case details
death of tweener Nellie Gower and the similar information he found in the FBI
Violent Criminal Apprehension Program re the death of eleven years old Lizzie
Nance in Charlotte. The New England cop
also says DNA found on Nellie matched that of Canadian serial killer Anique
Pomerleau. Stunned Bones thinks she has a
second chance to nab the monster who got away when she worked in Montreal. Slidell brings in the working case file of
missing thirteen years old Michelle Leal who shares the same traits as the dead
victims.
Bones wonders if Pomerleau found where she lives
so came to town for a new round of taunting killings. As the clock ticks away for Shelley, Barrow
asks Bones to find quickly missing Detective Andrew Ryan who worked the
original case with her; as he may bring a different perspective to the hunt for
this diabolical psychopath.
The latest Bones forensics police procedural is a
fresh investigation into finding a female serial killer before the apparent
next victim dies; ironically the storyline will remind readers of Criminal
Minds. Besides suffering from a cold
that humanizes Bones, the obsessed protagonist thrives on a second opportunity
to end her adversary’s reign of terror, but she prays it is before Shelley and
other girls die.
Harriet Klausner
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