by Kathy Reichs
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Editorial ReviewTHE RIVETING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs plunges her acclaimed heroine, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, into a harrowing nightmare that calls on all of her scientific savvy as well as her skills for survival. FATAL VOYAGE A commercial Jetliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a member of the investigative agency DMORT. As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions -- and gets her thrown from the DMORT team. Relentless in her pursuit of its significance, Tempe uncovers a shocking, multilayered tale of deceit and depravity as she probes her way into frightening territory -- where someone wants her stopped in her tracks. When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn't match up with the remains of any of the plane's passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they're linked, she's pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs's earlier books (Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane's manifest, Ryan's partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight's final destination, to stand trial for murder. As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe's romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author's regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones. --Jane Adams
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- Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
- Interesting and literate, gets a little silly at the end
When a plane crashes in the mountains of North Carolina, a bevy of agencies scramble to determine the cause - the FBI (was it terrorism?), the National Transportation Safety Board (the people who rebuild crashed planes to determine cause), and even the Quebec Provincial Police, who had an officer on board transporting an extradited Hell's Angel. Temperence Brennan - the forensic scientist with the unlikely name who stars in numerous Reichs books - is part of the Disaster Response Team and helps identifying... more info
- Kathy Reichs, where have you been?
Having finished FATAL VOYAGE, all i could think of was how had I gone so long without discovering this author? Great characters, especially Tempe Brennan who is constantly making smart remarks or thinking smart remarks and keeping them to herself. The story is told in first person from the point of view of Temperance, who is called in to help identify the bodies of people who died in a plane crash. Without giving too much away, Brennan comes across some bones that don't belong to any of the crash victims... more info
- gadget1
the ideas that kathy writes about are gripping. it held my interest till the very end. i have read almost all of her books. i really enjoy the tv series "bones". if her books do not hold your interest then there is something wrong with you.
- Too many stories, too many plots "fatally" wound this potentially solid mystery
I liked Reichs' 2007 release so much that I decided to check out my library's Kathy Reichs collection. To read them chronologically, I started with the earliest available, Fatal Voyage. I was very excited to read this book. The first few chapters were promising- Tempe Brennan has to help identify the bodies of victims aboard a crashed airplane. Brennan finds a mysterious foot that does not belong to any of the victims. She decides to take it with her to have it id'ed. (A major no no in her life of work.)... more info
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