It seems unfathomable that someone is targetting Tempe as it would mean they’re playing the long game, having patiently waited years for their chance to seek revenge or payback (or whatever motivates them).

King uses the phrase keeping it on the down-low in a way that suggests he probably doesn’t understand how this phrase is currently used—and has been used for quite a while. A mystery within a mystery that invites you to get into the action, complete with twisting turns and heart-stopping dives into the unknown. On page 217, Tempe’s investigation of the hit-and-run victim sparks a powerful emotional reaction, one that she seems to be alone in experiencing. As always, this is a gripping, edge-of-your-seat read, one you are sure to race through as Tempe tries to get to the bottom of the copycat killings. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe’s Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective.On page 361, Slidell is allowed to press a suspect who doesn’t have anything to do with the case to coerce a confession out of him. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Kathy Reichs has written her masterpiece, a story that reminds us that the past is not quiet and never completely behind us. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits.

I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell. But the biggest problem is that this narrative is framed as a mystery without delivering the pleasures of a mystery.Reichs supplies a great hook, a double helping of homicides past and present, and all the meticulous forensic details and throwaway cliffhanger chapter endings you’d expect from this celebrated series. Brennan) is a forensic anthropologist who is enjoying time with her daughter Katy, who just came back from a stint in the army.