- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0434008214
- ISBN-13: 978-0434008216
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of Twists and Turns,
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This review is from: Fatal Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)
Temperance Brennan, book4This novel follows Ms Reichs other bestsellers by providing the reader with engaging characters, a good sense of humour, facts that give it a plausible and realistic dimension. This author is remarkably talented in describing forensic details for the layman bringing a morbid topic to light with numerous intrigues that include lots of twists and turns. "Fatal Voyage" opens with an air disaster, a horrific plane crash in the mountains of North Carolina, illustrating clearly the drama that can result in the death of so many people. The questions of safety and cover up quickly surface in this chilling tale. Called to help identify the victims and assist with establishing the cause of the disaster is Tempe Brennan, a forensic anthropologist and a member of DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response). Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe's friend, is also on the scene investigating the death of his partner and prisoner who were on the domed flight. The investigation is barely underway, when Tempe discovers a severed foot that doesn't match anyone on the airline manifest. As Tempe probes for information, she encounters more and more road blocks...Is someone trying to sabotage the investigation?... Ms Reichs interweaves the ongoing relationship Tempe has with her ex-husband and Andrew Ryan giving a dab of suspense and sexual tension to pique the readers' interest without removing anything from the core of the story. She also introduces a large cast of colourful secondary characters; making it a challenge to keep track of them. The light hearted and simple narration moves at a fast pace making a very entertaining and satisfying mystery highlighting the incredible strength needed to face adversity.
4.0 out of 5 stars
WATCH OUT CORNWELL!! REICHS IS BACK & BETTER THAN EVER!,
This review is from: Fatal Voyage: A Novel (Hardcover)
Yeah, after reading "Fatal Voyage," I honestly believe that Kathy Reichs is a better writer than Patricia Cornwell. Both Temperance Brennan & Kay Scarpetta are similar and strong characters (except maybe in "Black Notice"), but I would say that Brennan is more realistic and more enjoyable to read about. I found "Fatal Voyage" to be extremely different then Reichs's previous novels. Mostly Brennan is in the morgue cutting up and doing an autopsy on ONE person. In "Fatal Voyage," an aircraft has crashed in the mountains outside of Virginia, taking down an entire school club organization with it. Tempe has to sift through hundreds of bodies and plane wreckage to try and determine if the crash was an accident or a deliberate act of murder. Authorities claim that the crash was deliberate and try to determine if the passengers had any major enemies. Most of their investigation turns up nothing and leave the investigators stumped. Brennan, along with her secret love from previous novels, accidently stumble upon some shocking news about the local town around the crash site. She discovers that there were an extremely high amount of deaths over the last ten years. As she investigates more she gets uncomfortable feelings from the local townspeople that she discovered something secretive about the town. The ending of "Fatal Voyage" was extremely surprising as the story took off on two different directions. The question for us Cornwell/Reichs readers is: Will "Isle of Dogs" be better than "Fatal Voyage?" I guess we'll have to wait until October 8 to find out!....
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A dose of science, and a fun mystery, too!,
By Annalisa Weigand (Carbondale, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fatal Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book as part of a forensic antropology class I am taking, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by it. After starting another book on my reading list, THE BODY FARM by Patricia Cornwell, I quit Cornwell's book because I hated the soap-opera style and so-called scientific evidence in the story, which was so sad and inaccurate and bothersome that even I, a cinema student with just VERY minimal personal-interest background in forensic anthropology, could see huge gaping holes from square one. Fearing the same for Reichs's book, but needing to complete my assignment just the same, I started reading FATAL VOYAGE, and was pleasantly surprised. I am not a huge fan of the mystery genre, preferring nonfiction reads, but I did find that this book had a healthy dose of science along with its generally intriguing plotline, and it did hold my interest. I do have a few complaints about conveniently placed evidence (an untrainted dog happens to sniff out a key cadaver, the mysterious foot that started the whole thing is just lying there), and too contrived plot lines, but I was pretty happy with the scientific methodology presented in this story. Granted, I don't know a whole lot, but I didn't see any glaring errors. Anyway, if you like mystery, intrigue, and, of course, forensic anthropology, you will probably like this book. It's not on my all-time favorites list or anything, but at least I can say it is more of a nail-biting thriller, and less of a hair-pulling frustration, than is Cornwell's BODY FARM, and, dispite a few brow-raising coincidences, I obviously liked the book a bit, as I am here on Amazon buying a copy after checking out my initial read from the library.
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