Kathy Reichs - Fatal Voyage

review by showhost
If you like Patricia Cornwell then will probably like Kathy Reichs. They are both forensic anthropologists and both have female characters who are.
I couldn't quite understand what was happening at the beginning of the story as it describes our main character Tempe Brennan looking at the half body up in the tree, like a figure head off a ship. I went back and re-read twice, then I got it! A plane crash! In the mountains of North Carolina. The plane was carrying young students and a police officer and his prisoner.
Temp Brennan is called to the crash site. Whilst investigating she finds a limb a severed leg in the posession of a pack of coyote. Once removed from them and analysed she realises that no-one on the plane fits the DNA of the limb.
Her questions and search lead her to a house in the middle of nowhere. The house isn't listed on any maps. Brennan is accused of misconduct and taken off the case. The local sherrif is her only ally.
What caused the plane crash, could it have been terrorists? And if the limb wasn't from the plane crash, who did it belong to?
It's a slow moving book, over 350 pages long. Theres lots of forensic information and explanation, lots of missing people and names. I struggled to finish it, found it often very tedious and the only really esciting bit was near the end.
Sorry not very impressed and not as good as the Cornwell I remember reading.