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	Fatal Voyage : A Novel Kathy Reichs Scribner, 2001 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 antrhopologiest 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 answers. But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous questions, 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 tale of deceit and depravity...

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Kathy Reichs, where have you been?

Having finished FATAL VOYAGE, all i could think of was how had I gone so long without discovering this author? Great characters, especially Tempe Brennan who is constantly making smart remarks or thinking smart remarks and keeping them to herself. The story is told in first person from the point of view of Temperance, who is called in to help identify the bodies of people who died in a plane crash. Without giving too much away, Brennan comes across some bones that don't belong to any of the crash victims and the plot takes off from there. We get a secret society, cover ups from high ranking officials and international implications. Kathy Reichs keeps the plot moving nicely although some of the forensic information was a little too deep for my brain cells to process. I gave this one 4 stars. Good plot, great characters and fun to read. It could have been dumbed down just a bit so that it was at my level. Easy to recommend FATAL VOYAGE. Now I'm ready to enjoy more of Kathy Reichs' works.

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the ideas that kathy writes about are gripping. it held my interest till the very end. i have read almost all of her books. i really enjoy the tv series "bones". if her books do not hold your interest then there is something wrong with you.

Bones IV

Well researched and written story. Typical of Kathy Reichs. Recommended reading for fans of mysteries and well written characters.

Reichs hold my interest as always, plot is a bit of a mess

In Kathy Reich's Fatal Voyage, forensic anthropologist Dr. Tempe Brennan is called upon to aid in the body recovery at the site of a horrible commercial airline crash. The horrific crash took the lives of over 80 people. The grisly crash site has drawn attention from FEMA, NTSB, DMORT and the FBI and no one is spared from the brutalities of the crash. Brennan is surprised to find Canadian colleague Andrew Ryan also at the site. His partner was on the plane, escorting a criminal. One theory was that the plane was blown up to silence that criminal from testifying. While concerned about what caused the crash, Brennan is more interested in aiding in identifying all the remains of the bodies.

While wondering on the outer edges of the crash site, Brennan runs across a pack of coyotes about to dine on a human foot. She and Ryan scare them away and Brennan decides to take the human foot back with her for processing instead of following procedure and leaving it where she found it so it can be properly documented. Then she discovers the foot might not belong to a passenger on the plane. It's characteristics didn't match anyone on the plane, nor did it appear to have decomposed at a rate appropriate for the crash victims. Before Brennan can investigate further, she is removed from her duties. It seems some powerful people don't want her anywhere near the crash site.

Brennan is devestated at first, but then becomes more determined to find out what is going on. A mysterious old cabin seems to lie at the center of the mystery. Brennan enlists the help of several locals and along with Andrew Ryan, she tries to find out how the foot, the cabin, and several missing persons over the last 50 years tie together and with the plane crash.

This is a good book, not great. It was written around the time of Sept. 11, 2001, and the author mentions this in her notes at the end. I like the Brennan series and think it is better than the Scarpetta series. However, without going into details, let's just say a lot of the story had nothing to do with the main plot. I read Reichs again. Her books are fast moving and Brennan has a good voice as a 1st person narrator.

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Too many stories, too many plots "fatally" wound this potentially solid mystery

I liked Reichs' 2007 release so much that I decided to check out my library's Kathy Reichs collection. To read them chronologically, I started with the earliest available, Fatal Voyage. I was very excited to read this book. The first few chapters were promising- Tempe Brennan has to help identify the bodies of victims aboard a crashed airplane. Brennan finds a mysterious foot that does not belong to any of the victims. She decides to take it with her to have it id'ed. (A major no no in her life of work.) And so, the plot becomes complicated!!!

Tempe gets involved with waaay too many people, from top government officials to university professors to common folk. There are many possible reasons for the downing of the flight. There are also many suspects. But, instead of focusing on the flight and/or the mysterious foot, Reichs also drags us into an investigation on the property of the crash. And then we're trying to keep track of victims, suspects, irrelevant dead people, and all sorts of living people. Not to mention the incoherent plot structure! Honestly, reading this book gave me a headache!!! And we also meet Tempe's cat and her ex-husband temporary dog, with the dog becoming overly involved in this case!!!

Also, Tempe is in serious trouble for removing that foot from the site. It's an interesting look at her ethics, but it gets lost in between the gazillion other plots!!!

I stopped in the middle of the book to read some spoliers on amazon. Knowing about them helped me move through the book a little quicker. I expected absurdity. The most absurd was the CONSPIRACY THEORY- mixing everyone from Pope Innocent to Ben Franklin, and likening some of their "stuff" to modern-day fraternity pledges. (Sadly, Reichs doesn't know her Catholic theology well; she obviously has no idea what TRANSUBSTANTIATION is!!! Nor does she understand the purpose of the Lateran Council.) Nothing like Christian/Catholic bashing- Reichs doesn't have to believe, but she doesn't have to bash Christianity!

Skip this one! It will give you a headache.

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