{"id":24030,"date":"2026-04-04T03:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24030"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:44:40","slug":"book-18-of-52-evil-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/book-18-of-52-evil-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 18 (of 52) &#8211; Evil Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24031\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/evilbones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24031\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24031\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/evilbones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/evilbones.jpg 312w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/evilbones-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evil Bones &#8211; Kathy Reichs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mutilated animals, displayed in an odd manner, have been appearing throughout Charlotte&#8217;s parks, but Dr. Temperence Brennan fears that the person responsible is escalating and will soon work his way to humans.\u00a0 Working with\u00a0semi-retired homicide detective Erskine \u201cSkinny\u201d Slidell, Brennan works to find the offender before that happens, but they are too late.\u00a0 When the case starts becoming more personal for Brennan, she needs to start putting together all the clues before someone close to her, her daughter or her niece, become the next victims.<\/p>\n<p><em>Evil Bones<\/em> is the 24th and latest entry in Kathy Reichs\u2019 Temperence Brennan series and is now the eighth book in the series that I\u2019ve read.\u00a0 This one seemed a little rushed, coming in under 300 pages, with an underage niece that continually goes missing that everyone is concerned, but not too concerned, about and a conclusion that certainly could have used more show and less tell.\u00a0 This was easily my least enjoyable outing with the series, at lease since I rediscovered it following the conclusion of the television show, <em>Bones<\/em>, that it inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutilated animals, displayed in an odd manner, have been appearing throughout Charlotte&#8217;s parks, but Dr. Temperence Brennan fears that the person responsible is escalating and will soon work his way to humans.\u00a0 Working with\u00a0semi-retired homicide detective Erskine \u201cSkinny\u201d Slidell, Brennan works to find the offender before that happens, but they are too late.\u00a0 When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109,12540,770],"class_list":["post-24030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-bones","tag-evil-bones","tag-kathy-reichs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24059,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions\/24059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}