Enjoy Reichs books - fun read and always a little educational. Liked the settings on this one. Good, easy entertainment.

Entertaining read. The plot is not her strongest but she got me interested in reading more about the diamond mining history in the NWT.

I dont understand why someone reads a book and then complains about the author. Dont read their books!!! Simple as that. I find her books entertaining, if I didnt I wouldnt read them.

While not my favorite of Reichs' books (it seemed like it would make a better Bones script than novel), it did hold my interest and I read it in less than a weekend. Not a fantastic mystery, but interesting and intelligent (a highly underrated quality in pulp mysteries these days). It seems as though Reichs is going the way of Cornwall and her ilk towards pulp, formulaic writing. I hope not because I really like how smartly written her mysteries are.

I love Kathy Reich's books and always look forward to them. This one had an interesting plot, like they all do, but the writing and plot seemed rather clumsy. Not her best effort.

I enjoyed this book. I was excited that the book touched on Edmonton and the explosion of the Giant Mine in Yellowknife. Cleanup of the arsenic in the mine is in the process of starting to be cleaned up. It was an interesting side trip, but not necessary to the facts of the case. She could have been called to Yellowknife as a consultant, rather than chase after a suspect from Montreal to Edmonton to Yellowknife. How many forensic anthropologists would travel with police chasing after suspects????? It was a good quick read over the weekend. at lease it held my interest.

I live in Edmonton, and people do call it E-Town. Some of the other details are... sketchy. It makes sense that Reichs would have made all of the seedier settings mostly fictional to avoid casting aspersions on any specific place in real life, but to a lifelong resident, nothing is directly recognizable, so it seems very fake. Some of the research appears to have been done by viewing a Google map and assuming a route could be walked, when in reality there's a freeway with no accommodation for pedestrians. In more general criticism, as others have stated, there is little keeping this series fresh. Because they are books with little substance, I can read one in a day so I'll likely keep following along, but mostly out of habit.

I was very disappointed in this one. I quit reading about 2/3's of the way through. It seems like she picks a geography, picks a type of crime, adds Ryan and throws in french every other word. Boring.

It's a good novel, but definitely not one of Reichs' best. The side story about diamond mining was interesting, but IMO, there was too much info on this topic relevant to the main plot. I was rather curious about the characters referring to Edmonton as E-town. I grew up in Alberta, and I have never ever heard that city called that. Edmonchuck - yes, but never as E-town. In the appendix to this book, Reichs describes her method of developing and writing a book is comparable to making vegetable soup. I think she put a few too many vegetables in this particular pot.

This book contains some interesting facts but not much of a coherent plot. And when is Kathy Reichs going to learn how to write? Several pages of this book consist of one- and two-word non-sentences strung together to form one-line paragraphs. Her writing style, coupled with a wandering plot, make this a very lightweight read.