Kathy Reichs - Monday Mourning

Pros: descriptive, suspenseful forensic crime mystery, sharp witted Tempe Brennen

Cons: normal mystery flaw - heroine puts herself in deadly situation to save the day

The Bottom Line: Kathy Reichs is top shelf! If you like Patricia Cornwell, give Reichs a try, I'm glad I did!

Review: Grade 12 High School English class. Teacher Old Mr. A booms about our taste in reading material. “For all of you who read that Patricia Cornwell author, have you ever thought of trying out a Kathy Reichs book?” Huh? Who? “Some of her ...

Pros: Detailed imagery and forensic information. Love story continues and everything gets resolved.

Cons: Sometimes the reader gets bogged down in the architectural and forensic detail.

The Bottom Line:

If you love Kathy Reichs' work, you'll like this book as well as most of the others. Storylines intertwine to keep you interested. You always learn a bit of French.

Review: The seventh in a series of murder mysteries by Kathy Reichs, makes sense even if you read it out of sequence -- as long as you know the basic character line-up. This time her main character, Temperance Brennan, a board-certified forensic anthropologist, ...

Pros: fun science, good action, nice kitty

Cons: Tempe, forgawdssake, take backup along next time! You gotta be smarter than that!

The Bottom Line: Just once I'd like to see Tempe Brennan call for backup when she goes to meet a murderer, wouldn't you?

Review: It's enough to put you off eating pizza, at least for awhile - unearthing the skeletal remains of three bodies buried in the cellar of the local pizza parlor, that is. But that's exactly what Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist extraordinaire, ...

Pros: Very slow start

Cons: Good middle and ending

The Bottom Line: Although it got really good towards the end it almost lost me in the begining, hang on though it's worth it.

Review: My wife has a used book business so she has plenty of books on hand at all times.  She also has a pretty extensive collection of audio books.  We recently went on a long vacation and I asked her to pick out some audio books to bring on the trip ...