What also intrigues me about the fast paced `adventures' of Temperance Brennan, the forensic anthropologist of two cities, Charlotte and Montréal, is my fondness of Montréal and when Kathy Reichs writes about this city, it is like visiting an old friend again......and much is familiar. She even has her characters go to the down town Greek restaurant Milos, where I have had many a delicious meal........However, I have not liked her attempt at the painfully snippy / para humorous / cutesy dialog and retorts of Tempe in her recent books, which is also present in 206 Bones, but her story line is good and makes up for it. I found the book a `page turner' from page 1 and a very `good read.' I also almost learn something from her: I learned the body has 206 bones and in case one has forgotten, one often gets a refresher course in French-Canadian cursing.Kathy Reichs uses a different format here, by beginning the book with a stream of consciousness written in italics, so you don't misunderstand......Tempe is in an apparently hopeless predicament, as she appears to be imprisoned in a dark freezing hole without any means of escape, tied up, and has no idea why and how long she has been there.....whether she is alive or dead....or is she dreaming or hallucinating all of this................? and why would she have amnesia? Well, we soon find out by flashbacks....interspersed with these internal dialogue sections ever so often..........and the reader soon guesses the villain, or almost, even before Tempe, who has remained curiously obtuse during the developments that have brought her to this frozen hell in hades................The characters/ colleagues at the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médicine Légale...the Canadian morgue in Montréal,..... have unfortunately changed, and only Claude `survives'. Their idiosyncrasies always made for good entertainment......but here a new `villainous' character is introduced who arouses our suspicions....but I do not want to give away the plot. ....I did not particularly like the long `filler' about the Latvian relatives of her ex husband, which was somewhat irrelevant to the plot, and I suppose, used as a comic relief. I surmise she also needed material to fill the over 300 pages. I also did not like the silliness of the ex boy friend lieutenant Ryan, nor Tempe's. I wanted to say, they behaved like adolescents, but adolescents do not appear to behave this coy anymore. Reichs probably just wanted to create some tension between the two, for future developments.........................Needless to say, Ryan is the deus ex machina who saves Brennan eventually, at absolutely the last second in the wintry sewers of Montréal, where she had ended up, due to the `dastardly deeds' of someone at the morgue........... I enjoyed reading this book very much.