Flash And Bones, by Kathy Reichs

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.