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Bones: Buried Deep

by Max Allan Collins, Kathy Reichs

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Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody, but Tempe senses the case is far from closed. And as Booth's Mafia case heats up with violent twists and bloody discoveries, including ties to one of Chicago's most gruesome and notorious killers, Tempe must unravel the story of the bones, where the truth lies buried -- in order to stay alive.… (more)
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I guess I'd recommend this book to fans of the Bones TV series who aren't motivated to go back and read the original series the TV show was based on. This reads pretty much like fan fiction, and gets some of the voices right (Angela Montenegro's few lines in the book fit the voice of her TV show character perfectly) but I don't think Mr Collins gets Dr Brennan right. His character was a strange mix of the TV show character (completely unable to get pop-culture references) and the pre-existing Kathy Reichs novels (there's a reference to Dr Brennan's ex-husband Pete, likely to confuse those who haven't read the novels). But Kathy Reichs has, if I recall correctly, always posited that the TV show is sortof based on what could be the earlier life of the character in her novels -- that is, the TV show Dr Brennan goes on to become the Dr Brennan of the novels. This book, though, turns that on its head a little, since as I mentioned, there's a reference to the ex-husband Pete. The character in this book is also not credibly faithful to the Reichs novels' Dr Brennan: for instance, in this book, Dr Brennan sits down at a restaurant and calmly has a couple of glasses of chardonnay. Anyone familiar with the Reichs novels would recall a fairly significant trait of Dr Brennan is that she is a recovering alcoholic, so drinking is not something she does casually (and for some reason, I seem to recall that she actually prefers red wine).

Okay so maybe I'm a little nitpicky, but I love both the Reichs novels and the TV show, and have made room for both of them and accommodated their differences, but this book doesn't seem to fit into either area well (and it wasn't good enough to make me WANT it to, really, either). ( )
  BraveNewBks | Mar 10, 2016 |
for a book based on a TV show (that was itself based on a series) - not a bad read.
It'll be confusing to keep track of the order of THREE sets of Bones media, though. ( )
  dragonasbreath | Mar 22, 2011 |
A pleasant enough indulgence for fans of the TV show - although there's not enough of the side characters 'back in the lab'. Initially I found the style a little clunky and perhaps clichéd, but as I started seeing and hearing my favourite TV characters I was able to sit back and loose myself in their adventures. ( )
  davros63au | Mar 15, 2011 |
Meh. "Bones" is one of the few TV shows that I like so I thought I'd give it a try but the book, unsurprisingly, fell short. ( )
  PortiaLong | Apr 19, 2010 |
Fun tie-in to the TV series, some of the characterisation is spot on and the Brennan and Booth dynamic is there. ( )
1 vote soliloquies | Aug 18, 2008 |
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AS those who study them have come

To learn, bones make good

witnesses - although they speak

softly, they never lie and they never forget."



Dr. Clyde Collins Snow,

Forensics anthropologist
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"The more outre and grotesque an

incident is the more carefully

it deserves to be examined, and the

very point which appears to

complicate the case is, when duly

considered and scientifically

handled, the one which is mostly

likely to elucidate it."


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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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For Dr. Greg Haines

and Missy Jones

who reassembled the skeleton
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Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- left on the steps of a federal building. Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody, but Tempe senses the case is far from closed. And as Booth's Mafia case heats up with violent twists and bloody discoveries, including ties to one of Chicago's most gruesome and notorious killers, Tempe must unravel the story of the bones, where the truth lies buried -- in order to stay alive.

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Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery, a plastic bag of skeletal remains - and a chilling note - left on the steps of a federal building.
Tempe determines the bones are from different corpses, suggesting a serial killer's handiwork. A suspect is quickly taken into custody, but Tempe senses the case is far from closed. And as Booth's Mafia case heats up with violent twists and blood discoveries, including ties to one of Chicago's mot gruesome and notorious killers, Tempe must unravel the story of the bones, where the truth lies buried - in order to stay alive.
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