Saturday, September 17, 2011
William Heinemann, £18.99; Kindle £6.39
IF you haven’t yet discovered feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan — on hit TV show Bones or through one of Reichs’s 11 bestselling novels — Flash And Bones is a great place to start.
It’s vintage Tempe; the Southern belle snaps out her usual one-liners as she deals with beaus past and present, a rising body count, missing bones and her beloved pet cat Birdie.
When a corpse is found at a landfill site alongside the local NASCAR racing speedway just as a major tournament is about to start, the media whips up a frenzy. Trying to identify the gruesome remains, Tempe is accosted by a young race engineer who suspects it could be his missing sister, or the boyfriend she vanished with years before.
Then the FBI steps in to confiscate the body — and it’s clear they are hiding something about the couple’s disappearance. Broken into short, sharp chapters and told in a lively, diary-style narrative, the action moves as fast as the cars around the ill-fated speedway.
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