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The 16th (!) entry in the series about forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. I am a relative latecomer to reading this series, although I watched the television show that is (loosely) based on it from the time it first started way back when. I liked the show and I like the books, but I don't
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feel they have much in common. (For those who are unfamiliar with either: Temperance Brennan in the books is not nearly as robotic/gruff/rude as she is in the TV version; the book Brennan also does not work in Washington, D.C., with the FBI but rather splits her time between Charlotte, S.C., and Montreal, Quebec.) I like forensic mysteries, and these are decent if not spectacular. I would put them a cut or two above the Body Farm series that I reviewed in #12, if you'd like a comparison. Show Less
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"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--
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2013