I wasn't all that thrilled with this book. Maybe it just seemed too implausible. Maybe it was the fact that NASCAR was one of the bases of the story's foundation. Maybe it was the fact that the other was white supremacy. Either way, I just couldn't get as into this book as I have with some of the others.
Tempe is investigating a body found in an oil drum, encased in asphalt, buried in a landfill next to the Charlotte Speedway. Of course it's right at the start of Charlotte Race Week, so there are people everywhere for the race, and the body find outside the Speedway could provide some bad press for it. And Tempe has to investigate it.
Then, a man comes to her, wondering if the body in the landfill could be his sister, who has been missing since 1998. The body is male, so it's not his sister, but questions arise as to what happened to her and her boyfriend who went missing with her.
Cindi Gamble, the missing girl, wanted to race in NASCAR, and Cale Lovette, her boyfriend, was part of the Patriot Posse, which was basically a group that was all about the rights of the white male.
Information constantly gets discovered, bit by bit, about the previous investigation into their disappearances. More information is learned that the task force in 1998 hadn't found.
I don't know. Something about this whole story line just wasn't as exciting. Tempe still managed to find herself in danger, but the killer, when you finally discover who it is, is sort of incompetent at killing. It just wasn't the greatest of the Temperance Brennan books.
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