Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Bones to Ashes

  • By: Kathy Reichs
  • Narrated by: Lorelei King
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (82 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Bones to Ashes cover art

Bones to Ashes

By: Kathy Reichs
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Body in the Marsh cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
The Blood Strand cover art
The Broken Rules of Ten cover art
Collecting the Dead cover art
Broadland cover art
14 cover art
Cover Your Eyes cover art
Speaks the Nightbird cover art
Cut and Run cover art
The Templar Legacy cover art
The Ex cover art
Gameboard of the Gods cover art
The Secret Friend cover art
The Company cover art
Wicked cover art

Summary

Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters…‘Preliminary diagnosis?’. ‘Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process? Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the above? I don’t have a diagnosis…’

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than 14 years old – and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Yves Bradette is being evasive, insisting the bones are ancient and of no interest.

But it doesn’t quite add up, and a frustrated Tempe is convinced that Bradette is hiding something… It’s not Tempe’s case; she’s overwhelmed with more urgent work in the lab… But the nagging in her subconscious won’t let up. A memory triggered, deep in her hindbrain – the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation… Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn’t have predicted where this case would lead, or the horrors it would eventually uncover…Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

©2007 Kathy Reichs (P)2011 Random House Audio Go

What listeners say about Bones to Ashes

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    57
  • 4 Stars
    18
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    40
  • 4 Stars
    12
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    36
  • 4 Stars
    13
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars

Awful

This is such an irritating book, Temperance Brennan spends far too long mulling over her love life, this adds nothing to the story, she is also so irritating, being total self obsessed in the 'I'll do whatever I want' way. The whole novel could have been told in a third of the time.

Long drawn out descriptions of dreams...... Obviously giving her the direction to take her enquiries!

Long medical analyses and descriptions not relevant and just superfluous to the story.

To top it all, unless I missed the point I never understood WHY the girl went missing and lived as she did! Maybe I just drifted off from boredom.

Such rubbish!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Not the best of Tempy

This is a solid if a little muddled detective thriller with perhaps too many strands running at once. It would benefit from a bit more focus and less side stories that go nowhere. Still a decent novel, but not the best if the Brennan novels.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

5 Star

Very good,
Kept me guessing the whole time. Very well written and couldn’t fault the narrator at all.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

omg ...totally left of field story.brllant

I do like Kathy Reich's, her styling for a story is always left you wondering.the books are so souch better than the show, this story opens old wounds and a brilliant ending...now onto the next one lol

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

serial

Another in the Temperance Brennan series. as usual well writtem and the chsrscters are developed well. a worthwhile read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!