Dem Bones - Broken Bones

dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.

Advantages: good stories
Disadvantages: genre is getting a little saturated

Bones - Season 1 The Review A friend of mine recently loaned me his Season 1 boxset of Bones. He was singing its praises as he handed me the box saying "the show really sucks you in". So with no idea of what to expect I started trawling through the episodes. In the ongoing quest to arm criminals with a plethora of information on how NOT to get caught we have seen a number of television shows crop up that delve a fair bit deeper than your average cop show. CSI being probably the most well known. When CSI popped onto our screens a fair few years ago audiences loved the fresh approach that was being taken as well as the special effects that showed bullets and other sharp objects entering human bodies. CSI was so popular we even got CSI - New York and CSI Miami as spin offs. So popular was the first show that apparently it boosted ...

sjp1966 31.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bones - Series 1 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Dem bones dem bones

Advantages: Well written, tightly plotted, great characters
Disadvantages: Harrowing in places

and call upon world-renowned former criminalist and forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme to study the planted evidence, help track down the murderer and perhaps save the second victim. But Lincoln quit the police force when an accident at a crime scene made him a quadriplegic. And now he’s too busy to help – he is arranging to kill himself. But whilst Lincoln’s broken body is incapable of movement below the neck, his mind is mobile and agile and he is unable to resist the gauntlet thrown down by the Bone Collector. As he becomes more entangled in solving the clues, his life suddenly seems more productive and his thoughts of suicide are pushed to the background. And Lincoln’s unexpected attraction to Amelia Sachs, the beautiful but troubled beat cop who is press ganged into acting as the criminalist’s “legs ...

madamois_elle 23.03.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver

Dem Bones, Dem Bones

Advantages: A good solid read
Disadvantages: Read the book

the party line. In this the eighth of the Harry Bosch novels, the horrifying co-exists alongside the mundane, and it?s quite difficult to pre-empt the twists and turns of the plot. The title of the book, City of Bones is taken from a phrase coined many years ago, relating to the Brea Tar Pits, located near to Hollywood . These tar pits have over the years been the final resting place of many unfortunate souls - those perishing through accidental circumstances, murder and some maybe never to be explained circumstances. Recently, a 9,000 year old female body has been discovered in the tar pits, proving that murder is not a recent phenomenon. Harry's latest investigation begins with the discovery in woodlands of the remains of a young boy; a local resident allowing his dog off the leash as he done countless times before, is somewhat surprised ...

MarkKerr 18.11.2002 · Read full review
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Review of City of Bones - Michael Connelly