First Bones

, #0.5

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Kathy Reichs: First Bones (2020, Simon & Schuster)

78 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2020 by Simon & Schuster.

4 stars (1 review)

In 1980s Charlotte, North Carolina, Temperance Brennan is newly employed as a bioarchaeologist, studying the bones of the ancient dead. But a strange opportunity presents itself when two detectives appear at her lab, seeking consultation on a recently burned body. As a murder investigation unfolds, Temperance finds that there is another deadly threat at work…

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reviewed First Bones by Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan, #0.5)

What a lovely origins story

4 stars

I really enjoyed this origins story. Well done and nice to read about young versions of all the characters. What a sad story in the present. I had read the book that follows this and finally got an explanation of what happened. I wish it wasn’t so.