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Kathy Reichs publishers' comparisons of her with the mega-selling Patricia Cornwell are based on the fact that more and more people (readers, critics, other writers) are calling her better than Cornwell! On the evidence of Reichs' splendid new novel, Grave Secrets the answer is yes--particularly as several recent Cornwell titles have been misfires. Reichs' speciality is the powerfully realised female protagonist: Dr Temperance Brennan is the best of the many forensic specialists rubbing shoulders in the genre at present: she's professional (never, of course, fazed by her often grisly work), forceful in everything but her messy private life. This time, Tempe travels to the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya tracking the bodies of 23 women and children dumped in a mass grave. But while digging in the pit of death, Tempe finds the present contains further horrors: four girls have gone missing from Guatemala city--and one of them is the daughter of an ambassador. Soon Tempe is up against both a recalcitrant district attorney and municipal corruption, grimly aware that there are those who want the deaths in both the past and the present to remain a mystery. What makes this such a distinguished addition to the Reichs library (in a class with such winners as Death du Jour) is the brilliantly realised Guatemalan locales. Not many thriller writers can evoke comparison with such masters of foreign climes as Graham Greene, but Reichs pulls it off with aplomb. The web of deceit that Dr Brennan encounters is satisfyingly tangled, and the unravelling of the mystery has all the quirky energy of Reichs at her most stylish. Perhaps future Brennan outings will have to bring in new personal elements for the heroine to avoid staleness, but Grave Secrets has everything in place for the most diverting of reading experiences. --Barry ForshawRead More

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    Guatemala, in the searing heat. The bones of a child no more than two years old are uncovered when mass graves are excavated. Twenty-three women and children are said to lie where forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is searching for remains. Then four girls go missing from Guatemala City.

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    Dr. Temperance Brennan forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in Montreal and North Carolina departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala where her skills will be tested to the limit. It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and children. No records were kept. Families and neighbours refer to their lost members as "the disappeared". The bodies are said to lie in a mass grave. Tempe digs in the cold damp pit. The soil begins to yield ash and cinders. Her trowel uncovers the bone of a child no more than 2 yrs years old. Something savage happened in this village twenty years ago. And something savage is happening today. Four girls missing from Guatemala City including the daughter of a high ranking government official. When a young archaeologist is brutally murdered Tempe realizes that she may be the next victim in a web of intrigue that connects the historical and contemporary murders.

  • BookDepository

    Grave Secrets : Paperback : Cornerstone : 9780099307303 : 0099307308 : 19 Oct 2004 : In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the horrors she excavates.And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City. It is clear that some people will stop at nothing to keep Guatemala's secrets buried.

  • ASDA

    Guatemala in the searing heat. The bones of a child no more than two years old are uncovered when mass graves are excavated. Twenty-three women and children are said to lie where forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is searching for remains. Then four girls go missing from Guatemala City.

  • 0099307308
  • 9780099307303
  • Kathy Reichs
  • 1 March 2003
  • Arrow Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
  • New edition
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