(2015)A missing girl who is presumed to be murdered by Temperence leads to crazy religious fanatics who use exorcism to deal with children they cannot figure out or control. Turns out the missing girl has dissassociative identity disorder and has murdered her brother and boyfriend. Her parents and priest have hidden her away as they believed her to be possessed. After the case is resolved, Ryan and Tempe are contemplating moving in together and possibly marrying in Montreal.Goodreads: The latest blockbuster suspense novel in the pulse-pounding Temperance Brennan series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.For every case Temperance Brennan has solved, there remain innumerable unidentified bodies in her lab. Information on some of these is available online, where amateur sleuths sometimes take a stab at solving cases.One day, Tempe gets a call from Hazel ?Lucky? Strike, a web sleuth who believes she's successfully connected a body in Tempe's lab to a missing persons report on an eighteen-year-old named Cora Teague. Since the bones in her lab do seem to match Cora's medical records, Tempe looks into the case, returning to the spot where the bones were originally found. What seems at first to be an isolated tragedy takes on a more sinister cast as Tempe uncovers two more sets of bones nearby. When she then learns that the area is known as a viewing point for a famous unexplained light phenomenon with significance for a local cult, Tempe's suspicious turn to murder by ritual sacrifice¥a theory thrown into question when Hazel herself turns up dead. Still reeling from her mother's diagnosis and the shock of Andrew Ryan's potentially life-change proposal, Tempe races to solve the murders before the body count climbs further. Hardcover, 336 pagesPublished July 21st 2015 by Bantam (first published July 2nd 2015)

Ooh, a teensy bit of self-awareness in this one! Thank gods.

Certainly not the best in the series....just felt like giving her a good shaking ! Too much vacillating over her relationship with Ryan and not wanting to be protected by him and then rushes off twice and knowingly puts herself in a position where she needs rescuing !! ( )

I like the Temperance Brennan series and this one didn't disappoint either.
Temperance is visited by Hazel "Lucky" Strike who has a tape recording of a missing girl (Cora) and claims that some of Cora's bones are at the Temperance Institute. An unsolved murder case? Brennan, together with local police officers, sets out to find more bones and soon realises that there must be another dead body. The search also leads her into a devout society that definitely does not want anyone digging around in them.
Along the way, Brennan also has to deal with Ryan's marriage proposal. Is she ready to give up everything and move to Canada, or would there be another solution?
An exciting thriller whose twist was not predictable for a long time. ( )

I wanted to give this book a full 5 stars but the last 50-odd pages deterred me. It is clear that Reichs Temperance is far different than the Deschanel Temperance. The former is the more careful thinker until she loses control of herself; the latter is the more frivolous. Both are brilliant but Reichs Tempe doesn't act like it while the Deschanel Temperance is well aware of herself. But I like them both.
Speaking in Bones is great because the story is nearly incoherent much of the way. Only tiny glimmers hold it together. ( )