Sunday Night is a woman with a past she's worked hard to keep buried. The memories that haunt her play before her eyes when she is approached about finding a missing girl, Stella. Stella was lost after a bomb exploded at her school, leaving her grandmother to wonder where she ended up. A year later, Sunnie is traveling across the country in search of Stella and those people who caused the bombing.

This case was clearly difficult for Sunnie, as she kept being thrust into memories she didn't want to revisit. Would those memories be the key to finding Stella or would they cripple Sunnie while she tries to push through?

4 out of 5 stars.

Because of the author and the description, I expected this to be better than it actually was. The story line took forever to get going and then flew at the end. The main character was so in her own head all the time that it got in the way of the story.

A standalone book by Kathy Reichs instead of her well known Temperence Brennan series. I enjoyed this book and look forward to more standalones

Great story, thrilling plot that I could not put down. Well worth a read, and would recommend to others.

Many years ago, at least 12, I was lucky enough to go to a book launch lunch with Kathy Reichs. The timing seemed apt as I'd only days before, broken a toe while dancing & vacuuming. (Housework is violence). The lunch isn't memorable but Kathy is.
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Releasing a new book with a new protagonist could be seen as a risk & with Two Nights, Reichs is almost there. I like Sunday & her brother is intriguing. I want to know more about her life on Goat Island & her past. In this first installment, it all felt a bit rushed & needed a little more flesh.
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For anyone who has spent years reading the adventures of Brennan (& watching Bones), Two Nights might feel less than anticipated but give it time. For those who come to Reichs' work with this title, they're in for a great story, told with the usual powerful wordplay & charm.

I've read several books by this author and have always enjoyed everything I've read, so I was looking forward to reading this book. I must say it didn't disappoint. This book was easy to read and fast paced and kept me wanting to read more. I highly recommend this book.

I actually haven't read Kathy Reichs before, though I love the tv show bones. This is a stand alone, so I thought I would give it a try. But it didn't work for me. It was enjoyable, but nothing to scream home about. Just a good and entertaining read

Kathy Reichs has surpassed her readers with a new character, one who couldn't be more different from her series character Temperance Brennan.

Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct. . . .

Sunnie has spent years running from her past, burying secrets and building a life in which she needs no one and feels nothing. But a girl has gone missing, lost in the chaos of a bomb explosion, and the family needs Sunnie’s help. Is the girl dead? Did someone take her? If she is out there, why doesn’t she want to be found?

It’s time for Sunnie to face her own demons—because they just might lead her to the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

Highly recommended novel of pain and redemption.

I have been a fan of Kathy Reichs for many years and I was so excited to read her latest book Two Nights
by her. However, I found it did not have the same flow to it like her previous books and I sadly struggled reading this book. But, I will still buy and read her books in the future.

Big thank you to Netgalley and Random House UK, for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review

This was a pleasant break from the Temperance Brennan novels, and it was nice to see Mrs. Reichs do a little something different that wasn't a YA novel. Much like her other novels, the plot was on point and the characters well developed and likable. I didn't think was going to like it as much as her other work, but I feel that this book was a tad better than some of her more recent books. I really hope that she decided to visit these characters again soon.

I was given this book by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Sunday Night didn’t stay in the military or the police. All she has from her time with either is training and one useless eye. When she is offered $140,000 to find a missing teenager and bring those who took the girl and killed her mother and brother, she takes on the challenge.

This was a fast paced read, well written, with interesting characters. I tried one of the author’s Temperance Brennon books, but did not like it. I like this book and these characters, especially Sunday’s brother, and hope there are more to come.

Loved it! I'm already a fan of the author but I've only read her series until now. This was a bit different but not in a bad way at all. The storyline was thrilling and interesting and the characters were just as well done as usual.

A different book from th author of the Temperenc Brennon books. Sunday Night is avoiding the world after an injury keeps her from being a cop. She gets recruited to investigate the disappearance of a society dame’s granddaughter.

This isn't a terrible book, but it's definitely not what I expect from Reichs either. It was a fairly straightforward mystery/thriller, with no real surprises. I really missed the forensic details of her other books.
What I liked about this one: I loved Sunday and her snark. It made the book for me. I liked her paranoia and the measures she took to protect herself and outsmart the bad guys.
What I didn't like: The endless rehashing of every detail of the case every time a new character was introduced. Just say "I covered all of the relevant details with Capps" instead of writing it all out again. There was also one plot device that I figured out WAY before it was revealed. It was eh. Just tell us what is going on in the first place.

I will probably read another book in this series if she writes one, because I just loved Sunday.

After eighteen novels in her "Bones" series it would be very easy to write off Kathy Reichs as a one trick pony. "Two Nights" demonstrates that she is much more than the queen of forensic pathology and truly a master of the suspenseful thriller.

Sunnie Night is a real character. Ex forces and ex police she lives alone on a small island with a squirrel for company! She has put a lot of effort into burying her past and running from the secrets in her history.

When she is approached to search for a missing girl the story pulls at Sunnie and she has to help. In the aftermath of a bomb blast that killed her mother and brother Stella has gone missing, possibly kidnapped. As Sunday Night (cringe) starts turning over rocks and getting closer to the culprits both she and Stella are in very real danger.

This is a fast paced thriller with action that moves all over the USA as Sunnie gets closer to those responsible. There is quite a large supporting cast that take a bit of remembering but it adds to the story line. I loved discovering the little titbits about Sunday and the things that made her the person that she is today. It feels like this could be the start of a brand new series from Reich. Here's hoping!

Supplied by Net Galley and William Heinemann in exchange for an honest review.

Chances are, if you picked up this book you did so because of the author, Kathy Reichs, and you know her as the author of the Temperance Brennan ("Bones") books. This, be aware, is a little bit of a departure for Reichs ... but a fascinating one.

Sunday Night is a tough woman with a decorated but troubled past. She lives as out-of-the-way as possible, so when she is paid a visit and asked to take on a case (as a detective) she knows it's not likely to be easy. She meets with Opaline Drucker, a wealthy old woman who explains that her daughter and grandson were killed in a blast when a bomb was set off at a school in Chicago. Drucker's granddaughter went missing at the same time. Opaline wants to know if the granddaughter (Stella) is still alive.

The case had already gone cold after the Chicago PD investigated and the investigators on the case aren't thrilled with Sunday's stirring up the dust on the old files. But Sunday's investigation has her bouncing around the country and getting into just a little bit of trouble as she 'takes care of' a few people who intend her harm.

As the investigation starts to get more intense than she bargained for, she brings in her twin brother, August (Gus) Night (who happens to be African-American by appearance).

What the Nights learn is a departure from where they thought the case was going to go and they'll need the full cooperation of the Chicago PD as well as police and federal officers in other parts of the country to see the case come to a non-violent end. And everyone will need to trust Sunday Night.

I really had a great time with this book. It's dark and mysterious ... and that's just Sunday.

The past that haunts Sunday is slowly revealed during the course of the book mirroring the revelations in Opaline Drucker's missing granddaughter case.

Sunday is tough, and yet she leans heavily on her brother, and possibly her step-father, for emotional support (and in Gus's case, for backup as well). The flawed detective is by no means a new device in the mystery story, but Reichs handles Night well and the mystery of Sunday Night is probably even more interesting than the mystery of Opaline's granddaughter. However, the search for Stella is a more active and engaging story.

One thing that I didn't care too much for was the violence. No...no, that's not right. The violence itself didn't bother me. It was the <em>casualness</em> of the violence that bothered me. Sunday kills more than one person here, and it's no big deal. If Reichs is trying to make a statement here about how modern readers view life and death, it doesn't come across. Instead it's random, Hollywood-like killing and I really don't care for it in my literature. For that I knock the book down a peg. But for the mystery and the development of characters, this is a winning read.

Looking for a good book? <em>Two Nights</em> by Kathy Reichs is a departure from her Temperance Brennan ("Bones") series and is a quite good mystery.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

Love the new hard hitting heroine in Reich’s latest. She does not disappoint. Fast-paced and thrilling to the very end!!

Kathy Reichs never fails to disappoint. As a long time fan, I continue to read every single one of her books.

This was an exciting, nail-biting thriller from Reichs. It was difficult to stop reading until the end.

This is another book from my blogger shame pile. I actually started and stopped it a few times before deciding to try it in audio on my drive east not long ago. I have been wanting to try Kathy Reichs for a while as I really enjoy Bones, the television adaptation of the Temperance Brennan series.

Sunday Night is a tortured heroine, former military, former law enforcement, current recluse and part-time private investigator. Sunday suffers from PTSD, slight hallucinations/delusions, and fairly extreme paranoia. Though her paranoia does seem to serve her well in her line of work. Sunday is convinced (somewhat guilted) into taking a case involving a missing girl and bombing, and the investigation will see her traversing the country from Charleston to California to Kentucky. I was not able to connect to Sunday Night - I just couldn't get a bead on her character. She was part film noir, part snark - but those characteristics largely fell flat in the audio version of this book. She also seemed somewhat inept in her role as a private investigator, and I often found myself rolling my eyes or feeling like she was missing the picture completely.

The mystery and suspense was fairly well laid out. I liked the plot line and there were some good twists in there. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get myself interested into the story enough to care. I even fell asleep during one rather important moment once I got to my hotel room, and I wasn't interested enough to rewind and see what happened.

While this story did not work for me, I still plan to give the Temperance Brennan series a shot. I think I may be able to connect to her quirky character better than this noir snark.

I received an advanced copy of this ebook from the publisher, but I ended up reading an audio version from the library instead.