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Fatal Voyage (Mass Market Paperback)

by Kathy Reichs (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc; US Ed edition (17 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671028375
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671028374
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,259,830 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Tempe Brennan, Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist heroine, often finds herself in physical jeopardy. In Fatal Voyage, her fourth outing, someone is trying to kill her and also to destroy her professional reputation with trumped-up charges of unethical behaviour.

Tempe is called in when a plane full of college athletes goes down in the remoter parts of the forests of North Carolina. She finds herself investigating a spare foot she rescued from coyotes, a foot which is significantly more decomposed than the crash victims and which has symptoms of gout, a disease most of the dead young people had no time to contract. There is a locked house and walled courtyard out in the woods that do not appear on any maps and it seems almost as if her simple knowledge of their being there has offended the powerful of the world.

As always, Kathy Reichs manages to combine a detailed knowledge of who the dead were and how they died with a profound sense of the sadness of things. This is a book that never lets us forget amid the dissections and tests for genetic markers that each human death is that of a tragic and irreplaceable human being. Tempe is one of the more attractive of the current crop of women detectives simply because she is flawed and vulnerable as well as smart, righteous and brave. Reichs never lets you forget that crime novels should acquaint us with good people as well as human evil. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Sunday Times

'Compared with Patricia Cornwell, Reichs is actually in a different league' --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A holiday read or a stay at home read, but a must read !, 23 July 2001
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This review is from: Fatal Voyage (Hardcover)
Kathy Reich's forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is back for her fouth time and is better than ever. Regular readers will enjoy the usual group of friends, family and cat. New readers will soon get to know these characters without feeling they have lost out by not having read Reichs previous novels.

The plot is initially centred on the site of a plane crash that Brennan is asked to attend, while salvaging remains of the crash site she is dragged into something a lot more sinister and complex than she or the reader could ever imagine. As well as trying to distance herself from the disaster for the sake of the families left behind by the tragedy, she also has to battle against a conspiracy to professionally discredit her.

Her old police ally and love interest Andrew Ryan is back on the scene as many sub plots weave around the main story line. Her cat Birdie also has a rival in the arrival of an orphaned dog, Boyd, a love/hate relationships develops.

The detailed descriptions of the technicalities used to establish the cause of the plane crash and other pathology references may be a little overwhelming, but as ever Tempe's story is gripping to the end.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tempe Brennan to the rescue...again!, 9 Sep 2004
This review is from: Fatal Voyage (Paperback)
It is my mission to read all of Kathy Reichs novels- this was my third! I'm not big fan of blood and guts on tv but reading it doesn't seem so bad. In this one we find our heroine making her way back from a job adn called to another, an plane crash in the woods. Everything seems straight forward - how did the plane fall from the sky but an extra body part is found-the plot thickens! I couldn't put this book down - I was desperate to find out what was going to happen, then, it dawned on me that these novel all have the same pattern. In the last couple of chapters the guy catches up with Tempe Brennan, knocks her out, ties her up, she escapes, bad guy gets caught by police and the answer becomes clear to Tempe. There are no mega twists and nothing to take your breath away. But, all in all its a pretty good read and easy going.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars very disappointing, 28 Sep 2001
By ritsap@aueb.gr (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fatal Voyage (Hardcover)
I loved Kathy Reichs' first two novels, but found this one very disappointing. The forensics are very interesting, as always, but the storyline couldn't keep me interested, was drawn-out and confusing,and VERY anticlimactic by the end. Frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of the "professional discrediting" of the heroine that always seems to take place in these books. I long for the early days of the forensic pathologist genre... when the storyline was tight, without a million conspiracy subplots... My favorite is still "Postmortem" by Patricia Cornwall.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Starts slow but builds well!
This one took a bit of patience at the start, the decriptions of the plane crash were a bit stomach churning (don't read straight after eating), but once you get past that, and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Hammerton

3.0 out of 5 stars cannibals conspire to pervert the course of justice? unlikely
A plane crash, a cabal of cannibals and a conspiracy are a little awkwardly and improbably woven together. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Build another bookcase

5.0 out of 5 stars good read
I only started reading Kathy Reichs books, about 2 months ago and I am hooked, I would recommend her titles to anyone who likes a good read. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. Graham Brash

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant.
As usual, Kathy Reichs has written a book that's gripping and believable, and which has that undeniable ring of authenticity. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Peter Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Head and Hands above the Rest
Tempe Brennan hears on the radio while driving through North Carolina that a plane has gone down. She rushes to the scene, saves a decomposed foot from a pack of coyotes, finds... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2008 by Katie Osborne

4.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable episode
The fourth in the series does not disappoint! Enjoyed the change of scenery, and found the pace high and exciting. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2007 by Mosschops

3.0 out of 5 stars Good - not superb
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book and the plot within it, but for me it was slightly tarnished with a sort of 'look at me' way in which Kathy Reichs explains... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2006 by hpttr2779

5.0 out of 5 stars Really good
I really liked this book. It follows Tempe Brennan as she is called to the scene of a plane crash. After finding a foot she begins to unravel a disturbing story. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2004 by Mandy

5.0 out of 5 stars My firsy introduction to Kathy, and i wasn't disappointed.
Kathy takes you on a journey into the unknown world of forensic science.
But through her superb attention to detail, and powerfully descriptive text, you'll feel like Dr... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2004 by daveshaky

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Reichs book so far
This is the most coherrent and enjoyable Reichs book so far. In stead of being set in Central America this book is based around a plane crash in the States. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2004 by christophergb

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