Flash and Bones

A Novel

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Kathy Reichs—#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones—returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan.

Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble’s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi’s? Or Cale’s?

At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can’t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?

A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs’s “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication—and her most recent novel, Spider Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller—Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.

Excellence

First such book I have ever listened to, but enjoyed the entire narration and the narrator!

I LOVE IT

I love all the Dr. Brennan books,
this one only disappointment was she is not with detective Andrew Ryan. but it Loved it all the same.

Flashy with Lots of Twists

Characters are well developed and the story twisted enough for me not to see the ending. The performance was right on! I've never been interested in NASCAR, so the history was a refreshing plus.

Temperance does NASCAR

Would you listen to Flash and Bones again? Why?

No--but it was okay.

What does Linda Emond bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

She is an excellent reader! I think she has good energy and voice qualities for this particular series.

Any additional comments?

This is possibly not the best of the Bones series--but it is quite good. Several others have commented on missing a couple of the usual characters--and that is true, but this remains a good book--don't pass on reading it. If the book lags at all in places, the narrator more than keeps it moving.

Good but not one of the best.

Aside from Temperance, the characters weren't as interesting. I knew who the perpetrator was after a few pages. The only mystery was why certain people were murdered and how it was done. It was still an interesting story, but didn't have a lot of energy.