Play Audiobook Sample
Grave Secrets: A Novel Audiobook
Play Audiobook Sample
(3.00) - 11,532 listener ratings
Quick Stats About this Audiobook
Total Audiobook Chapters:
Longest Chapter Length:
Shortest Chapter Length:
Average Chapter Length:
Audiobooks by this Author:
Publisher Description
It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers ravaged the village of Chupan Ya, raping and killing women and children. Twenty-three victims are said to lie in the well when Dr. Temperance Brennan and the team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation now dig. No records were kept. To their families, the dead are "the disappeared."
The team is packing up for the day when an urgent satellite call comes in. Two colleagues are under attack. Shots ring out, and Tempe listens in horror to a woman's sreams. Then there is silence. Dead silence.
With this new violence, Tempe is asked by the Guatemalan police for her expertise on another case. Four privlidged young women have vanished from Guatemala City in recent months. One is the Canadian's ambassador's daughter. Some remains have turned up in the septic tank. Unfortunately, Tempe knows septic tanks.
Teaming with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolomé Galiano, and with Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe soon finds herself in a dangerous web that streches far beyond Guatemala's borders. As power, money, greed, and science converge, Tempe must make life-altering choices.
Grave Secrets is powerful entertainment from a crime fiction superstar who combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.
Download and start listening now!
"Ol' Dr. Temperance "call me Tempe" Brennan does it again: examining grisly human remains, helping police solve murders, and putting herself in ridiculously dangerous situations. This one's plot hung together better than the first four books, I thought. In addition to the Guatemalan history angle, this book is notable for Tempe having to retrieve a skeleton from a hotel sceptic tank--niiiiiiiiice! As with the others in this series, do not read while eating."
— Jen (4 out of 5 stars)
Quotes
-
“Tempe is a standout in crime fiction’s crowded field of forensics experts—she’s one of its more complex and interesting protagonists, dealing with intriguing cases that often cross national borders and a personal life that’s rich in possibilities... Tempe—and Reichs—just keep getting better.”
— Amazon.com editorial review -
“Another realistic and thoroughly chilling Kathy Reichs novel.”
— Barnes & Noble editorial review -
“Fans of the Temperance Brennan series will be pleased by [Grave Secrets]...The author keeps the twists coming, and by the novel’s climax, she has skillfully interwoven her many subplots and red herrings into a satisfying puddle of sex, sleaze, greed, and gore.”
— Publishers Weekly -
“The secrets uncovered by anthropologist Tempe Brennan have the chilling reality of true crime, and Reichs’ ability to set scenes with careful detail makes this medical thriller particularly unsettling...Narrator Katherine Borowitz’s facility with the various accents places each of the characters as she moves the story through its intriguing twists of human rights issues, forensic science, and government corruption. Borowitz is masterful with the banter between the detectives, Canadian and Guatemalan, and Brennan. She switches easily between the accents without a miss. Listeners will have a hard time turning this off before the final clues are revealed.”
— AudioFile -
“Best are the medical details, which spring from Reichs’ own forensics background. Both vivid and fascinating, these particulars shore up the sprawling story, which is also greatly helped by the inquisitive, tough-but-still-vulnerable character of Tempe Brennan herself.”
— Booklist
Awards
-
A New York Times bestseller
Grave Secrets Listener Reviews
-
" The Guatemalan backdrop was fascinating. One of my favorite books in the series so far. "
— Guthrie, 2/3/2014 -
" This is a good story, but not great. I don't like the main character's saying that she found x amount of "souls." She is indicating skeletons, not spirits. The soul are long gone. I am impressed at her level of knowledge of her subject, the identification of bones or skeletons. It is her day job, after all. She could do better. "
— Daisyaday, 1/28/2014 -
" Really interesting to read. Tempe is in Guatemala helping to identify the remains of massacre victims who were killed during the countries 1962 to 1966 civil war. She also finds herself wrapped up in murder investigation in Guatemala City. Tempe finds a new man to make her heart skip a beat and he is friends with Andrew Ryan. Will she choose the soft brown eyes or piercing blue eyes? Enjoy... "
— Toni, 1/28/2014 -
" This was my favorite of the Temperance Brennan books. Perhaps it is because I studied the Latin American Dirty Wars in college. "
— Dawn, 1/21/2014 -
" Picked this up for cheap as part of work's United Way fundraising. Took it on a cruise in 2012 and read it during the wildest night of my life (thanks, after-effects of Hurricane Sandy!). Left it on the ship for someone else to enjoy. "
— Katie, 1/15/2014 -
" I generally love her books, but this one was a bit busy, and full of clunky exposition. "
— Kath, 12/25/2013 -
" This is the fourth in the series, and I had a bit of a break before I read this one as there is a certain similarity in the tone of the books. With the break behind me I really enjoyed reading this one. Tempe is in Guatemala this time around helping to indentify victims of past autrocities committed by the army in the 1980s. I like this historical context and seeing another side to the character's skills that is not contemporary crime solving. I also knew some of the locations, which was an added element. Of course, Tempe is then dragged into a current investigation when a body is found in a septic tank with 4 young women missing. The book inevitably ends with Tempe's life being in danger but Ryan comes to the resuce at the last minute. All in all, an enjoyable read which I whizzed through in less than a week. "
— Emma, 12/20/2013 -
" The book series is excellent once you get beyond how different the books and the television show, "Bones", are from each other. "
— Barbara, 12/16/2013 -
" quick, entertaining, and gripping page-turner. what more can you ask for? "
— Tatiana, 12/10/2013 -
" More like a 3.5 than a 4. Pretty interesting. "
— Tere, 9/29/2013 -
" Dr.Temperance Brennan goes to a Guatemalan village to help identify remains of victims killed twenty years ago in a bloody civil war. While there she manages to get involved in cases of four young women who have disappeared from Guatemala City. Excellent. "
— Mary, 8/25/2013
About Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the Virals series and the Temperance Brennan series. She is a forensic anthropologist and a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. Visit her at KathyReichs.com or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs
About Katherine Borowitz
Katherine Borowitz completed her fist audiobook in 1999 when she narrated Maeve Binchy’s Tara Road. Since then she has gone on to narrate several books by mystery writer Kathy Reichs, including Death Du Jour and Deadly Decisions, which won an Earphones Award. She is also an accomplished actress who has appeared in films such as The Man Who Wasn’t There, Internal Affairs, and A Serious Man.