Cross Bones (novel)

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Cross Bones

Author	Kathy Reichs
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Temperance Brennan
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	William Heinemann London
Publication date	2005
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded by	Monday Mourning
Followed by	Break No Bones

Cross Bones is the eighth novel by Kathy Reichs starring forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan.

Plot

The story begins in Montreal, Canada, with the body of Avram Faris, who is an antiques dealer and an orthodox Jew. Brennan continues the investigation in Israel, where she and sometime lover Detective Andrew Ryan, and her friend, archeologist Jake Drum, are threatened by radical orthodox sects and other, unknown, parties.

Facts behind the book

Reichs explains the C14 dating of dating remains as well as ground-penetrating radar in this book.

The protagonist Jake Drum is modeled after Reich's colleague and Biblical archaeologist James Tabor; in the afterword explaining the facts behind the book, she recommends his book The Jesus Dynasty as enjoyable reading. Neither she nor her protagonists in the novel verify or falsify the existence of a tomb of the Jesus family discovered by Shimon Gibson (cf. controversy regarding the Talpiot Tomb and James Ossuary), leaving it as a question of the personal faith of everyone.

The book builds on Jewish and ancient Christian history like the Massada.

External links

Kathy Reichs' page on Cross Bones

v t e Books by Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan series	Déjà Dead Death du Jour Deadly Décisions Fatal Voyage Grave Secrets Bare Bones Monday Mourning Cross Bones Break No Bones Bones to Ashes Devil Bones 206 Bones Spider Bones Flash and Bones Bones are Forever Bones of the Lost Bones Never Lie

Virals series	Virals Seizure Code Exposure

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