Monday Mourning (pages 55-150)

As the case continues, Dr. Brennan also works on the case she went to trial for. She ends up being the reason that the suspect went to prison, for the murder of his 34 year old wife.

Back at the lab, everyone is trying to go above and beyond to solve the murder of the three little girls. Claudia (Angela Montenegro in the TV Show) is disturbed by the fact that someone would do this to the girls. She takes the case the hardest, struggling to draw facial reconstructions and displaying the crime in 3-D imaging. Meanwhile, Detective Ryan is acting mysterious constantly. (Ryan and Brennan have obvious romantic feelings, just like in the show). Tempe Brennan begins questioning what the phone calls are about, whether it has to do with the case, or if it is a personal matter. Ryan time and time again leaves a scene in the book to answer a call. This takes up the majority of personal thoughts in the pages so far.

The other detective helping out on the case is Detective Luc Claudel, someone that Tempe does not enjoy. He does not appreciate the need of a forensic anthropologist to solve cases, and the fact that his boss once again called in Tempe to help him out, aggravates him. He is constantly rolling his eyes as the author describes, or making smart-@55 comments in French under his breath. However, as annoying as Tempe finds him, he indeed pursues help to with the case. Tempe, kicks him out, but after finding a finger bone not h=part of any three of the girls, she asks him to do a favor. Again, that is Brennan not knowing the logical thing to not instill help from someone you just fired. He looks at the bones only for a minute, and believes that the bones are historic. He figures, if it is not his case, it has no meaning to him anymore so he mostly left the book from there.

The case had a breakthrough when Tempe examines the bones and establishes approximate age with Carbon 14, don't ask me how she did it, because I haven't a clue. That is where I am right now, not too far into the case still, only a couple breakthroughs in.

Personal Response: I'm really liking this book, so many similarities between this and the show which I love so so so so so so much. I like the fact that that Tempe's best friend Claudia has an issue with young victims, very much a like to the show. I also like how the first person description of the realtionship with Detective Ryan is hilarious and cute at the same time. Plus, this case is really good so far!! All amazing qualites if that wasn't obvious.