This is the lastest in Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan series. I have read the others and to be honest I'm not sure what it is that keeps me coming back to them. I dont really care much for her main character. I do love the secondary characters. I guess I keep buying them hoping she will finally make a descion on her personal life. I find that more intresting that some of the cases she works.

This book started out with a grusome discovery in an apartment, the body of an infant is found and Tempe is brought in to give information on the baby. Before they all leave the apartment two more babies remains are found. Following the leads, she and Ryan end up at another of the mothers apartments and yet again, another baby's body. So they have one woman, who has been known to be a prostitute, she has left town and left four newborns in her wake. Brennan and Ryan are ready to head out after her. The RCMP has sent a rep to gather information on the mother, Annalise. Enter one Ollie Hasty. One of his pet projects with the RCMP is Project KARE. They keep tabs on the hookers and see that they are being treated decently. Annalise was one of his to keep track of. He also has a history with Tempe, a short affair after her separation from her husband Pete. They dont much care for each other anymore. And Ollie is quick to let Ryan know they have a past. So now there is tension between all three of them. And now they are headed out to the the northern part of Canada to look for Annalise. She has family out in Yellowknife. As things start to come together, it turns out that the missing woman has a half sister and a half brother living there in town. She also learns that Annalise is a bit slow. She functions on about a 10 year old level. Through the townspeople and some gossip, Tempe starts looking into the diamond mining business. It turns out the murdered babies have nothing to do with what the real case turns out to be.Tempe thinks the main factor is these diamond mines and mineral rights.

The book was well paced, and written well. But I finish one of these books and I'm always looking for more story. Something just feels empty, missing. The end of the story comes way to quick. And one again Tempe is hit over the head, wakes up with a concussion, sick to her stomach and somehow manages to sorta get herself to saftey. Until the calvary arrives having put together the limited clues they listened to, to find her. Geez if she's not getting hit in the head she's being poisioned and kidnapped to wind up the story. I think I'm over this form of ending the stories. Come up with something new. Please. And I really didnt need a 7 page lecture on the diamond mining history and the business of mining diamonds. I know some people love that about her books. I just tend to skip over her "teaching" segments.
If you've read the others you'll probably like this one too. It wasnt bad. Just not anything NEW.