Cross Bones
Ratings19
Average rating3.4
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Ratings19
Average rating3.4
When an Orthodox jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.
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I was really disappointed when I realized where the plot was going - Christ's bones? Come on, Reichs. But she did a very good job with the plot, giving the reader plenty of intrigue without ever getting into any mystical nonsense. I found the references to The Da Vinci Code highly amusing (there may have been some that I missed, but I haven't read the book, and I was only half-way paying attention when I saw the movie).
Temperance Brennan is contacted to investigate some bones that may be possibly Jesus or in the family of Jesus. There are a lot of religious information which I found fascinating. I always love the forensic science in these books. These are different from the tv series Bones but I still really enjoy them.
I absolutely loved this one. It kept you going page after page and Kathy Reichs did a great job at building mystery and tension. I am excited to see if there are more books in the series that I like as much as this one
I love the Tempe Brennan series in general, but this storyline was just “eh” for me.
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21 primary books24 released booksTemperance Brennan is a 24-book series with 21 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Kathy Reichs and Lee Child.
