Fatal Voyage is the fourth book from the author Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs

Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic . She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave...

 in the Temperance Brennan

Temperance Brennan

Temperance Daesee Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs, and is the hero of her crime novel series . She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997...

series.

Plot

A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina.

But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the main crash site...

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one, and her investigation seems to be throwing up more questions than it's answering.

But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous issues, her professional standing is threatened. Convinced that another corpse lies in the woods, Tempe pits herself against a conspiracy of silence, and uncovers a shocking tail of deceit and depravity...

Critical reception

The book entered the Publishers Weekly performance top 10 list in seventh place on. The Publishers Weekly review praised the book's "restraint" and its "riveting plot", Kim Bunce at the Guardian applauded the plot's "complex and evil tapestry". while Michele Hewitson in the New Zealand Herald called it "another big fat forensic thriller".

External links

• Kathy Reichs' page on Fatal Voyage