Started: 12/18/2024
Finished: 12/23/2024
Year: 2016
Pages: 379
Genre: mystery
Grade: B
Reason for reading: library book, continuing with series
Type: paperback
Blurb (from Amazon): "In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs’s first novel, Déjà Dead, she at last reveals the tale of how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. In this never-before-published story, Tempe recalls the case that lured her from a promising career in academia into the grim but addictive world of criminal investigation. (It all began with a visit from a pair of detectives—and a John Doe recovered from an arson scene in a trailer.) The collection is rounded out with three more stories that take Tempe from the low country of the Florida Everglades, where she makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen corpse is unearthed. No matter where she goes, Tempe’s cases make for the most gripping reading."
Opinion: Unlike most collections, I enjoyed all of the stories. It was interesting to see how Tempe got into becoming a forensic anthropologist. There was some reference to stuff that hasn't happened in the main books but nothing that takes away from Tempe's story.
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