New Reviews: Brett, Ellis, Hauxwell, Nickson, Persson, Perry, Reichs, Thomas, Wheatley

This week's set of reviews, added to Euro Crime today, is a mixture of new reviews and a catch-up of those posted directly on the blog in the last two weeks, so you may have read some of them before if you're a regular :).

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New Reviews

Brother and sister detecting duo Blotto and Twinks are back in Simon Brett's Blotto, Twinks and the Riddle of the Sphinx, reviewed here by Mark Bailey;

Susan White reviews P R Ellis's Painted Ladies which introduces copper turned PI, Jasmine Frame;

Amanda Gillies reviews A Bitter Taste by Annie Hauxwell, the second book in her Catherine Berlin series;

Michelle Peckham reviews Chris Nickson's  Fair and Tender Ladies, the sixth in his Richard Nottingham series set in Leeds;

Laura Root reviews Leif G W Persson's He Who Kills the Dragon, tr. Neil Smith, the second in the Evert Backstrom series;

Terry Halligan reviews the latest in the Thomas Pitt series from Anne Perry, Death on Blackheath;

I review Kathy Reichs's Tempe Brennan short story Bones in Her Pocket;

Lynn Harvey reviews Ostland by David Thomas

 
and Terry also reviews the reissue of Dennis Wheatley's The Forbidden Territory.


Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

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Mini Review: Bones in Her Pocket by Kathy Reichs

Bones in Her Pocket by Kathy Reichs, ebook, July 2013, Cornerstone Digital

Though I have been a great fan of Bones the tv series (until the latest series where I gave up) I have never read any of Kathy Reichs's books. So when this short story was offered on Netgalley I decided here was my way in to the Temperance Brennan series which now numbers sixteen.

Bones in Her Pocket is set in North Carolina and Dr Temperance Brennan is called in when some bones are found washed up on a lakeside. This is the second discovery of bones in this area and could be related to the disappearance of a female student. It is Brennan's job to determine cause of death and an identity of the owner of the bones. Also near the lake are a power station, an environmental activist and a bird rescue centre all of which play a part in solving the murder enquiry which ensues.

This is a short story, hard to say exactly how many pages (I read it on a Kindle) but at least 50, and so it is a proper tale with several characters, some interrogations and a dramatic reveal at the end. I enjoyed it once I got used to the author's very clipped style. And in fact I've downloaded the latest book in the series, Bones of the Lost. I would recommend Bones in Her Pocket as a good way to sample the Brennan series.