Forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan is called in to help identify victims of biker gang warfare.

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In the park area near the boathouses.

Grabbed this off the large pile of books at the Melbourne Christmas meetup.

Picked this up at meet-up last night. This book comes highly recommended by a few others, and I have been assured that Kathy Reichs is much better than Patricia Cornwell (that's a relief), so I'm looking forward to reading this one!

From Amazon.com:
Critics (and publicists) often compare Reichs to Patricia Cornwell, as both are women who write bestselling thrillers featuring a female forensic expert. There's a significant difference between them, though. Reichs brings to her grisly novels a scientific detail and authenticity that Cornwell rarely matches - a virtue arising from Reich's background as a top forensic anthropologist for the governments of North Carolina and Quebec, a background mirrored by that of her heroine, Tempe Brennan. But Cornwell - a journalist before she turned novelist - is a more accomplished writer than Reichs, and her more fluid prose and plotting support a heroine who exudes a vitality that Brennan doesn't. Reichs's strengths and weaknesses are apparent in this third novel (after Death du Jour) featuring narrator Brennan, which finds the crime fighter tangling with outlaw motorcycle gangs in Montreal. The novel opens as Brennan, "sorting badly mangled tissue" in an autopsy room, is interrupted by the arrival of another body: that of a girl, nine, caught by a bullet that one gang, the Heathens, had intended for a rival Viper. The mangled tissue belongs to two Heathens who'd been en route to bomb the Vipers' headquarters: war is raging among bikers in Montreal, and Brennan is soon caught in the battles, not least because her visiting nephew, Kit, is enamored with bikers - including some involved in the war. The narrative carries Brennan to assorted bikers' hangouts, and to much forensic digging, all of which Reichs handles with an admirable intensity and veracity. Still, the novel has a stiff, storyboarded feel, with a subplot involving Brennan's cop lover - has he turned gang member? - particularly intrusive. The pacing is lopsided, laborious in front and action-stuffed at the back, and the narrative spreads its message about the malfeasance of outlaw bikers with a heavy hand. Overall, the novel works, but the gears show one time too many.

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An extra wishlist book for my SS partner! I am passing this directly to Mistlerose for Secret Santa 2008. Thanks for organising it again this year! Merry Christmas! :)

Thank you so much. I love these books.

I really enjoyed this book.

Will be taken to meet up tomorrow.

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on bookcrossing table.

This is well travelled amongst the Melbourne meet-up group. I have selected it for a special mission - stay tuned for it's further adventures.

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Left in front of the council chambers where many "deadly decisions" are made.

( Here is a site with information and photos of the Town Hall over it's 115 year history)

This book is released as part of the Dutch Monopoly game - our move this week being to release a book at the town hall.

Hello, thank you for being curious enough to visit Bookcrossing!
Even if this isn't your kind of book and you don't intend to read it I'd appreciate it if you would make a journal entry of some sort. Maybe you could say where you found it (they don't always stay where they were originally left!) or what you think of the idea of travelling books.
You can keep it or leave it for someone else to find. And don't forget, if you make release notes (to say where you've left it, and when) next time it's journalled you'll hear from it too!