Short & Sweet Review: Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs (audio)

Title: Bones Are Forever

Author: Kathy Reichs

Series: Temperance Brennan, #15

Narrator: Linda Emond 

Published: August 2012, Simon & Schuster Audio

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes 

Source: Library

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly)
novel featuring North America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe
Brennan—a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high
danger world of diamond mining.

Beneath a diamond’s perfect surface lies a story of violence and greed. Just like bones…

In
a run-down Montreal apartment, Tempe finds heartbreaking evidence of
three innocent lives ended. The landlord says Alma Rogers lives there—is
she the same woman who checked into a city hospital as Amy Roberts,
then fled before doctors could treat her uncontrolled bleeding? Is she
Alva Rodriguez, sought by a man who appeared at the crime scene? Heading
up an investigation crackling with the sexual tension of past
intimacies, Tempe leads homicide detective Andrew Ryan and police
sergeant Ollie Hasty along the woman’s trail and into the farthest
reaches of mining country—where the grim industry of unearthing diamonds
exacts a price in blood. And where the truths the unlikely trio
uncovers are more sinister than they could have imagined.

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My thoughts: This was quite an interesting installment in the Temperance Brennan series…I never know just where the case is going to take us and boy oh boy this one was quite a compelling, yet tough ride. It was a little hard to get through at times, due to the sensitive nature of the babies that kept turning up dead, but then when the diamond connection turned up, it just became really interesting. I really do love the facts that Kathy Reichs is able to impart throughout her books – I always feel like I walk away from her books with little tidbits of knowledge about a wide array of topics.

There was an interesting dynamic going on for Tempe in this book – not only was Ryan involved in this case, but so was an old fling of Tempe’s and that sure did make for some tense moments. It definitely put Tempe on guard, trying not to stir the pot by making either jealous as both happen to be exes as of this case. It was comical to watch, though I’m sure Tempe didn’t think so! 


Audio thoughts: Yay…another book narrated by Linda Emond! While I know it’s only a matter of time before the narrator switches, I am enjoying this long spree of books with a consistent narrator while it lasts. I think Linda does a great job with the voices and pacing in this series.

Books in this series:

1. Deja Dead                                14.  Flash & Bones
2. Death du Jour                       15.  Bones are Forever
3. Deadly Decisions                 15.5  Bones in Her Pocket
4. Fatal Voyage                         16.  Bones of the Lost
5. Grave Secrets                        17.  Bones Never Lie
6. Bare Bones                              17.5  Bones on Ice
7. Monday Mourning              18.  Speaking in Bones
8. Cross Bones                            
9. Break No Bones                    
10. Bones to Ashes                    
11. Devil Bones 
12. 206 Bones
13. Spider Bones