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Bones: Buried Deep
(Featuring the Character Created by Kathy Reichs)

by Max Allan Collins



      A witness to a mafia case is abducted from under the noses of his guards, and then Special Agent Seeley Booth is further sidetracked from his mob related case by the discovery of a plastic bag with an articulated skeleton inside, along with a chilling note.  Booth calls on forensic pathologist Temperance Brennan to assist in the identification of the bones. She determines the skeleton is constructed from different corpses, with some of the bones being only a few months old, but others are from corpses dead at least 40 years. 

A suspect is quickly taken into custody, but when more skeletons, assembled from various bodies spanning deaths over many years, begin to show up, they realize that the case is not over yet.   Booth begins to focus in on a very old serial killer he has been trying to catch for many years, but he is a tough old bird and not that easy to pin down. And then there are more and more loose ends that seem to point to the mob case that Booth is working on.

This is a fast moving, entertaining read with a complicated, multi-level plot, and I did enjoy the book. Max Allan Collins is a great writer, and I have enjoyed reading his books for several years, especially The Road to Purgatory (reviewed on Myshelf.com) and The Road to Perdition.  However,  since I am a huge Tempe Brennan fan, and have read everything by Kathy Reichs, I was highly disappointed in this version of Tempe Brennan.  I realize that this book is based on the TV series, Bones,  but this character is not in the same class as the original Kathy Reichs heroine.  Please, Max, if you plan a sequel, give the heroine a different name... she's not the Temperance Brennan that I know and love.

The Book

Pocket Star Books
March 2006
Mass Market Paperback
1-4165-2461-4
Mystery/Suspense
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The Reviewer

Beverly J. Rowe
Reviewed 2006
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