Two Nights by Kathy Reichs

My Chronicle Book Box Review:

Its been a good long time since I read anything by Kathy Reichs but I was tempted by this standalone novel featuring the whimsically named Sunday Night. This is a big departure from her writing about Tempe Brennan and I suspect will divide the opinion of her fans. Anyone who loves the Bones books and is looking for something similar here may be disappointed, but I felt it to be a fresh direction for Reichs.

Sunday (“Sunnie”) is a complex character, good at her core, but unwilling to show this outwardly as life has beaten her down. She is former military and a former police officer since an injury would have seen her confined to a desk job, she has become withdrawn. She is persuaded to become a private investigator to find Stella, a teenage girl who went missing during an explosion which killed most of her family. When she needs help she enlists her twin brother, who could not be more different from her, but the two work well together.

The book is fast paced and becomes a hunt across the USA on the tail of a terrorist group. We find out more about Sunnie’s traumatic childhood through a series of flash backs throughout the book. Through the investigation of the Stella’s disappearance and the circumstances surrounding the death of her family, Sunnie has to face up to the traumas of her own past. This trouble past has shaped Sunnie into the stubborn, uncompromising character she is in the present and Kathy Reichs has written the book in a short, sharp style befitting Sunnie’s nature and character.

I enjoyed this thriller and there was an unexpected twist at the end. I hope to see the Night twins investigating again in future.

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