Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. It’s difficult to drum up sympathy for this missing child, swaddled as she is in such a dull and harmless plot.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Anne’s wealthy mother and stepfather seem a too-obvious plot device, and they are, while her issues with the very real problem of postpartum depression are merely glossed over or trotted out during faux-fiery monologues. When it’s clear, or at least partially clear, what happened to the child, any remaining tension hisses out like a pricked balloon. What ensues is a paint-by-numbers police investigation, led by the personality-free Detective Rasbach, who seems to cycle through potential theories as to Cora’s whereabouts the same way Lapena must have in her early plotting stages, except it all ended up on the page.
When they return, drunk, after 1:00 a.m., Cora is gone. But when the babysitter cancels, Anne and Marco decide to leave Cora alone, taking the baby monitor with them and checking on her every half hour. A nice night out at a neighbor’s birthday party might be just the thing everyone needs. Yet looks are deceiving: his company is floundering, and she’s struggling with postpartum depression. He runs a successful software development company while she stays home with 6-month-old Cora maybe soon she’ll go back to work at the art gallery she loved. A questionable decision leaves a couple in a situation no parent wants to face: it’s the middle of the night and their baby is gone.Īnne and Marco Conti seem like the perfect upstate New York family.
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