![]() Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Though it’s certainly overlong for a police procedural, the raffish cast of often inept coppers (think Scottish Keystone) will keep you along for the ride.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Is she dealing with a sociopathic serial killer, or someone out to grab headlines? Seeing her own chance for some profitable ink, she plans to wind up the newbie and exploit the daylights out of him.įunny, occasionally brutal and surprisingly poignant. But what sort of message? Inspector Steele may be fat and frumpy, with hair “that something terrible had happened to,” but nobody ever said she wasn’t cunning. In short order, two of Rosie’s colleagues are beaten to death and then mutilated by someone who clearly wants to send a message. When a sting operation goes wrong, Napier banishes MacRae to Detective Inspector Roberta Steel’s aptly named “Screw-up Squad.” DI Steel-large, loud and colorfully opinionated, a female counterpart of DCI Andy Dalziel, the English bull in Reginald Hill’s China shop-is investigating the murder of that well-known Aberdeen lady of the evening, Rosie Williams. ![]() Detective Inspector Napier, who hated Logan at first sight, continues to envy and resent him. A beset Detective Sergeant in Aberdeen finds it’s always darker before it turns Stygian.īy all accounts, Logan MacRae ( Cold Granite, 2005) is a good cop.
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