Bare Bones / Kathy Reichs / 306 pages

This is the first of Reich's books that I've read.  I was expecting a book very similar to the Bones TV series.  While my expectations weren't met, I wasn't disappointed.  The Temperance Brennan in Bare Bones couldn't be any more different from the character in the TV series.  In the book, she is loving and warm, and often driven by emotion.  The only similarities between the two seem to be the habit of running around with cops and getting into life-threatening situations.  At the beginning of Bare Bones, Brennan is hoping to take a much needed vacation with her current love interest, who seems to be the first man she's dated since becoming estranged from her husband.  While attending a barbecue with her college-age daughter, Brennan finds the first of a string of corpses that will delay her vacation and make her fear for her life.