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Two Nights

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by Kathy Reichs
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/07/2017
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Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct ...

Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing.

But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie’s help.

Is the girl dead?

Did someone take her?

If she is out there, why doesn't she want to be found?

It's time for Sunnie to face her own demons because they might just lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

With Kathy Reichs, the reader knows that they are in the hands of an expert. As a forensic anthropologist, 1 of only 82 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board, Reichs’ real-life expertise has given her novels an authenticity that most other crime novelists would kill for.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her lab, no one is better qualified to write about what it’s really like to catch the killer and solve the crime.

ISBN:
9780434021123
9780434021123
Category:
Crime & Mystery
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-07-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x24mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Kathy Reichs

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as one of only seventy-seven forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Dr Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerising forensic thrillers.

For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Kathy Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Kathy Reichs has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A native of Chicago, she now divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal.

Kathy Reichs's first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. All eleven of her novels have been international bestsellers. She is also a producer of the chilling hit TV series Bones. She has written seventeen bestsellers featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, the most recent being Bones Never Lie. She has also written four bestsellers featuring Tory Brennan: Virals, Seizure, Code and Exposure.

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I read the synopsis for this book before I bought it and thought "Wow, this sounds like a good book". I started reading it and didn't get very far into it before I lost interest - Two Chapters into Two Nights and I was out, if I even got that far. It wasn't my cup of tea and put it away with my other books.

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I was really disappointed with this book. I couldn't relate to the main character Sunny, she seemed uninteresting and I didn't care what happened to her or any of the other characters. The chase seemed to go on forever.

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Two Nights is a stand-alone novel by American forensic anthropologist and author, Kathy Reichs. Reclusive ex-cop (and ex-USMC) Sunday Night’s peace on her island is disturbed by a visitor with an intriguing proposition. Beau Beaumonde has been her saviour more than once, and has always had her best interests at heart, so Sunday is willing to consider what he’s suggesting.

Opaline Drucker, a very wealthy matron from Charleston, wants someone to track down the people who planted a bomb that killed her daughter and grandson, one year earlier, in Chicago. And to find out what happened to her granddaughter, Stella Bright, who disappeared from the bombsite. Was Stella kidnapped? Is she still alive? Beau feels this case will help Sunnie deal with the horrific events of her own youth.

Sunday’s first person narrative is interspersed with an occasional third person narrative from the perspective of a young girl being held captive, a two-week countdown which is ambiguous enough to have the reader wondering if it’s Sunnie’s story or Stella’s.

Reichs gives the reader a fast-paced tale with lots of covert surveillance, cross-country pursuit, high-tech devices and a rather different Kentucky Derby experience. There’s no forensic anthropology, but there are quite a few dead bodies, and the plot has a good helping of twists, turns and surprises. While it looks like a stand-alone novel, more of Sunday and co would certainly not be unwelcome. Excellent crime fiction.

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