Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan spends more time contemplating biblical history than modern-day murder. A preface sets the stage, providing a bit of factual context for the puzzle that emerges when Tempe is given a photo of an articulated skeleton, which she is told is the key to the suspicious death of a slightly shady Orthodox Jewish merchant. The legend on the back of a photo leads to the bones themselves, 2,000-year-old remains that excite not only Tempe but also her friend Jake Drum, a biblical archaeologist, who suggests that the bones might even belong to Jesus himself!

A very enjoyable book. I usually complain about all the French sentences in Reichs's books, but in this book no such complaint. This time the forein language is Hebrew which happens to be my language :) Just a note of caustion to those now reading the book - all the descriptions of Israel as a place where a terror attack can happen every day was true to the time when the book was 1st published. Now 6 years later. Israel is safe and quite.