Hi Cara,
Today on my blog I am reviewing The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs. The Bone Code is Book 20 in the Temperance Brennan series.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies washed up from the sea may be connected to a deadly new pestilence.
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past.
On the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Chillingly, Tempe recognizes many details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she flies to Montreal to gather evidence and convince her boss Pierre LaManch to reopen the cold case. She also seeks the advice—and comfort—of her longtime beau Andrew Ryan.
Meanwhile, a storm of a different type gathers force in South Carolina. The citizens of Charleston are struck by a bacterium that, at its worst, can eat human flesh. Thousands panic and test themselves for a rare genetic mutation that may have rendered them vulnerable.
Shockingly, Tempe eventually discovers that not only are the victims in both grisly murder cases related, but that the murders and the disease outbreak also have a common cause…
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)
The Bone Code is another great mystery that has several references to things that have happened in the last couple of years.
The case that Tempe gets involves in it's interesting as its spends time and distance. There is less bone science in The Bone Code, but more genetic and vaccine science I enjoyed learning more about the vaccine due to the current world situation.
I am a fan of Andrew Ryan so I was glad that we get to see him working with Tempe. They make a great crime-fighting team as well as a romantic team.
There is a little side case that Tempe gets her friend Anna to look into which had a really interesting ending.
Overall The Bone Code is a great addition to the Temperance Brennan series. It can be read as a stand-alone but I suggest reading the rest of the series first.
My rating for The Bone Code is 4.5 out of 5.
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