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MISSION FLATS
Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
A 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. 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. 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. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a pas
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Mission Flats
by William Landay
Published by Delacorte Press
384 pages, 2003
First-Rate
Reviewed by Sarah Weinman
The debut novel is a paradoxical creature. Its author has no prior track record, no expectations that accompany, say, the next in a series or a change of pace. He or she comes to the literary effort with a clean slate, yet accompanied by tremendous baggage. First works herald, one hopes, the beginning of a long career, during which the author will continually improve upon the craft, expand on horizons and produce better and better books. Thus the maiden novelist has a potentially limitless future -- provided, of course, that his or her initial offering sells well enough to ensure that such a future is possible. In the current publishing climate, this means that first novels can't just show embryonic potential -- they must be fully formed and perfectly polished, ready to fulfill the publisher's heightened expectations of their being the "next big thing."
Perhaps, then, the biggest compliment one can bestow upon an author is that his or her debut novel doesn't read like one.
Luckily, at least in crime fiction, the forces at w