The Bone Chamber by Robin Burcell (Review #2)

Reviewed by Julie Moderson

Robin Burcell is an FBI forensic artist and she has spent more than two decades as a detective and police officer as well as a hostage negotiator. She has a great background to write what she knows and it is obvious in her books.

The book starts with Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick teaching a class to law enforcement would be police artists. She is called out of class to give her opinion on who would be an excellent forensic anthropologist for a case that needs to be done quickly by the best possible person. Sydney recommends her best friend Dr Natasha Gilbert. Sydney is then asked to help by doing the sketch which she quickly declines because she is going home for a long break over Thanksgiving. Her friend Tasha is already on the case and the Special Agent Zachary Griffin is trying to get Sydney to help as well. Tasha calls Sydney and invites her out for drinks and Sydney notices that Tasha looks ill. Sydney gets on a plane to San Francisco but is called off the plane when it lands and told to call Quantico. She is then told to board a private plane back to Quantico and do the drawing that she had declined. She gets there and is locked in a room with a human skull and as she is doing her drawing she gets a call about her friend Tasha. Tasha was killed in a hit and run accident.

Sydney promises herself that she will find the killer. She is then in a run for her life to Rome to find out what happened to the girl that she drew a picture of and her friend Tasha.

This is a fast moving book and gives you tons of information on hidden chambers and fabled treasures. You don’t know who is good and who is not and as Sydney follows others to find clues she finds out a lot about herself too.

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