Play Book Tag discussion

This is my first Dr. Temperance Brennan book, though years ago I watched Bones on TV. I might have enjoyed this book more if I hadn't watched the TV show, because she is so different from the character on the show. The "Bones" I knew wouldn't watch YouTube and sing Weird Al Yankovich songs for one thing. I also missed the Smithsonian setting.

The case itself was interesting enough, with a requisite gross-out scene - a body in a drum of asphalt in a waste dump (with only a hand sticking out). The FBI suspiciously steals the body. I think the FBI stole a body from her at the beginning of the TV series too, before she developed a "close" relationship with them. The forensics part of the case wasn't very complex, so it was like a lot of other mysteries chasing down clues. A new dead body (someone she knew) adds to the urgency of the case. I read it for the Racing tag, and there was nothing here that increased my interest in racing, or in reading the rest of the series. I see that regular readers of this series commented that this isn't the strongest book in the series, so I might start again some day with the first book.