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Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6)
Bare Bones - Temperance Brennan, Bk 6
Author: Kathy Reichs
ISBN-13: 9780743233460
ISBN-10: 0743233468
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 140 ratings
Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
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Lenore avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 193 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Very good. I read this book after watching the TV series, Bones, also based on the life of Kathy Reichs (the author), a forensic anthropologist working with the police. The series is excellent and it was cool to see the backstory and some cases that weren't featured in the TV series. Dr. Temperance Brennan is smart but a bit dry on TV, but the book character is funnier and more clever than I'd expected after watching the show.
batgirl avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 284 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
If you are a fan of the TV show "Bones", the Kathy Reichs books are very diffent, setting, characters, mostly everything. That said, I love the books and the show both. Just don't confuse the two.
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Helpful Score: 1
If one enjoys CSI or Patricia Cornwell"s books, this is the one for you. I am a big fan of them all.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great one by Kathy Reichs. I'm reading through her whole series. I really like the main character, Tempe. Reminds me of early Patricia Cornwell novels.
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Helpful Score: 1
Tempe Brennan once again must put aside her vacation when she is asked to analyze the bones of an newborn recovered from a wood stove, two passengers of a plane crash, and a cache of bones that turn up at a "pig pickin" that she and her daughter attend. Who would guess that they are all related?
A very good Tempe novel. I enjoyed it greatly.
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Helpful Score: 1
Temperance Brennan is is the primary character in the tv show "Bones". This is one of the series of books that inspired the show.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good read as all of hers are. Lots of forensic info if you like that stuff.
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Good southern mystery, I rather enjoyed it.
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Another excellent book in the Temperance Brennan series.
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A compelling read! I read it in one sitting on a long plane flight.
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Another novel I just couldn't see my way through. I foudn that I didn't care for the main character making it a tough book to want to pick up again. I hear many people enjoy Reichs' books though.
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4stars Alot of differences from the tv series but better.A must read to the end.
doxielover avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 91 more book reviews
Great Read!
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"Down time" is not a phase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A sstring of distrubing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remins from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones...Tempe's daughter's new boyfriend invites them to a picnic - a pig pickin' - in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of human bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can't reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter - and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth."
AllieFWilliam avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 97 more book reviews
Hard to put down. Very good plot.
TinkerPirate avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 61 more book reviews
This was my first "Bones" book. I started watching the series and then got interested. OK, so the book "Bones" is not the same as the TV one. Actually, I like the one in the book better. Enjoy!
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Kathy Reichs does wonderful mysteries with forensics involved.
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suspense-filled CSI
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Good book. If you like Bones or CSI, you will like this book. Keeps your interest.
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If you like Bones on TV, you'll like this book.
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If you have a weak stomach for forensic details - don't eat lunch while you read it.
luvbooks avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 126 more book reviews
An excellent novel for forensic fans!
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Good mystery, thriller full of forensic pathology.
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CSI in a book.Have gone on to read many books by this author because of this book
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Love this series! Great writer!
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I fyou like the TV show, you'll love this book!
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I liked this book.
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I love this series and this one is the best yet.
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Great read
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Soso mystery. Not the strongest writer. Will probably give author one more chance.
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Not crazy about this author but it was really good
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Good summer read!
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First time reading this author, I thought she got very techincal about a lot of her forensic finds, and the story line was very confusing.
ttotten avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 50 more book reviews
Good book!
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Excellent book! Great suspense.
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Fast read, Reichs is brilliant (as always)!
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"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire and a mysterious black residue from a small plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones....Tempe's daughter's new boyfriend invites them to a picnic-a pig pickin'-in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can't reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth.
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This is actually the hardcover version, but the system kept asking for the paperback. Kathy Reichs nearly outdoes Cornwell with this thrilling tale--you'll love it!
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Good mystery
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a good tempe read.
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Better then the show Bones
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If you like the TV series "Bones", read the books from which the show was taken. The books are much more exciting the the program!!
Elaine
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Bear paws, bear gallbladders? How do these relate to the fragile burnt bones of a newborn baby? follow Tempe Brennan on another forensic chase after facts and justice.
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This was a great Kathy Reichs book. One that I didn't want to put down.
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I really liked this book, but then I love the show "Bones" based on Kathy Reichs life and profession.
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Poachers and drug traffickers

What the author does with this series: Kathy Reichs started off slow but gets better and better. This is part of the series called the Tempe Brenner â Forensic Anthropologist. This paragraph applies to all books in this series. Tempe is a anthropologist who works for medical examiners in Montreal, Quebec and Charlotte North Caroline

Even though the books are often very detailed in both location and the examination of the remains, the story often moves faster than you expect.

Do you need to read this series in order: YES or you miss out on too much of the back stories.

Triggers: This is a book about medical examiners at its core, so lots of references to dead bodies, some are described in strong detail (in a forensic way).Our anthropologist ends up in some life threatening situations and on a couple of occasions in the series, animals are killed, sometimes gratuitously. Relatives of Tempe often in up wounded as the bad persons try to get to her through her family.

Dr. Temperance Brennan works with the dead, but she works for the living. "Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan's vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones. . . . Tempe's daughter's new boyfriend invites them to a picnic -- a pig pickin' -- in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can't reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter -- and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth.
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Who is trying to keep Tempe from the answers? Someone is following her. Someone is following Katy [daughter]." - from the jacket
booklit avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 473 more book reviews
a really good thriller!
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My daughter loves this author.
Kmarie avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 529 more book reviews
"It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing." "A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also about to become a victim?" "A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. Was it pilot error? Something more sinister? And what is the mysterious black substance covering the bodies?" "Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote farm outside Charlotte. What has Tempe's dog, Boyd, unearthed? The remains seem to be of animal origin, but Tempe is shocked when she gets them to her lab." "With help from a special detective friend. Tempe must investigate a poignant and terrifying case that comes at the worst possible moment. Daughter Katy has a new boyfriend who Tempe fears may have something to hide. And important personal decisions face Tempe. Is it time for emotional commitment? Will she have the chance to find out?" Everything must wait on the bones. What story do they tell? Why are the X rays and DNA so perplexing? Who is trying to keep Tempe from the answers? Someone is following her. Someone is following Katy. That someone must be stopped before it's too late.
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Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropolgist for the NC medical examiner, looks foward to her first vacation in years. Shes almost out the door when the bones start appearing. It starts with a new borns charred remains in a wood stove, includes a small plane crash in NC, and bones that are both animal and human unearthered by her dog Boyd in an isolated farm yard. As the bones begin to tell their story Tempe races to to stop someone from murdering again!
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From Publishers Weekly: "Feisty forensic anthropologist Temperance (Tempe) Brennan is supposed to be on vacation, but body parts keep turning up. At the start of her sixth adventure, she's awaiting the arrival of her current flame, Quebecois sleuth Andrew Ryan, so she can head for the beach near her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Before he shows up, she's called in to use her world-class forensics skills when a local janitor's infant granddaughter is found dead and charred in an oven. Then some strange, decomposing remains are discovered by Brennan's dog during a barbecue at a local lakeside resort. Ryan finally arrives, but Brennan's vacation is indefinitely put on hold when a small plane crashes nearby. Two people are dead, and her expertise is required yet again ("The skull had suffered massive communitive fracturing on impact. The fire had done the rest"). Brennan eventually realizes that all three cases are linked to a drug-smuggling ring that also dabbles in poaching exotic animals. As she pursues her investigations, she is forced to work with "Skinny" Slidell, a redneck cop who rubs her the wrong way, but tension is defused by the presence of Ryan, who gamely gives up his vacation to pitch in. He matches Brennan quip for quip, and Tempe's dog, Boyd, provides extra comic relief. Reichs has built a reputation on cut-to-the-chase writing and swift plotting, and this latest effort delivers everything her fans have come to expect." Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --
romeo avatar reviewed Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 6) on + 334 more book reviews
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. The mother, Tamela Banks, hardly more than a child herself, has disappeared. Did she kill her infant, or is an innocent teenager also about to become a victim? A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. Was it pilot error? Something more sinister? And what is the mysterious black substance covering the bodies? Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote farm outside Charlotte. What has Tempe's dog, Boyd, unearthed? The remains seem to be of an animal origin, but Tempe is shocked when she gets them to her lab. With help from a special detective friend, Tempe must investigate a poignant and terrifying case that comes at the worst possible moment. Daughter Katy has a new boyfriend who Tempe fears has something to hide. And important personal decisions face Tempe. Everything must wait on the bones. What story do they tell? Why are the X rays and DNA so perplexing? Who is trying to keep Tempe from the answers? Someone is following her. Someone is following Katy. That someone must be stopped before it's too late.