A review by gabmc
Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs

3.0

This sixth book in the series felt a bit like hard work to me. There were many seemingly unconnected discoveries of bones in North Carolina, where Dr Temperance (Tempe) Brennan works as a forensic anthropologist. She spends half her time in North Carolina and the other half in Quebec, where she met Detective Andrew Ryan. Ryan and Temple are in the beginning stages of a relationship outside of work. Police find a baby's skeleton that has been burned in a wood stove, Tempe's dog finds bones which could be human or bear when they are at a bbq at a country property, and a plane crash incinerates its victims down to the bone. Tempe and Ryan were supposed to be going on holidays together but cancel their plans to help with the investigation. The book includes a lot of scientific analysis which I found too dry. The dialogue also felt very stilted to me. Overall a good story, but the plot moved slightly too slowly.