Alejandro Freitez Freitez থেকে Thipi Jhari, Bihar, India থেকে Thipi Jhari, Bihar, India

Although still relying on several outlandish coincidences, Reichs has managed to keep her heroine from dashing headlong into obviously dangerous situations in this novel, for which I am quite grateful. Tempe is assigned to investigate a plane crash in Appalachia on which Jean Bertrand, Andrew Ryan's former partner just happens to be a passenger. But that, although the title significance would have you believe differently, is not the major mystery of this tale. Tempe finds a foot that may not belong to a crash victim and which causes her to be falsely accused of unethical behavior. Of course, she must investigate further in order to clear her name and ends up uncovering something truly bizarre and extremely fascinating. Tempe's relationship with Ryan continues to escalate by maddeningly slow degrees, and Reichs continues to pepper the novel with side characters who are hard to keep straight, but for the most part I found this novel much, much more enjoyable than the first three featuring these characters. Also, with almost all the action taking place in the United States, there was very little cause for random bursts of incomprehensible French. Others have complained about the very dry descriptions of forensic techniques in these novels, but I find them to be not terribly poorly worked into the narrative, and also quite informative. It was almost worth slogging through the previous books to get to this one.