Sunday Night, ex military, ex cop is hired to find a missing girl. Sunday's past makes her uniquely qualified for this task. Right from the start you can tell Sunday is damaged and you won't know the full extent until the end. I was grabbed by this story and character even though she was hard to like. And it made the book hard to put down. This is the first book I've read from Kathy Reichs and won't be my last.

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

A fast paced mystery with some good characters. I felt the plot moved well and kept things interesting for the most part. The dialogue was the only negative. No one really conversed like this and it felt fake.

Kathy Reichs is an author one loves to read. Her novels are suspenseful and entertaining and, based on her experience as a forensic examiner, always provide knowledge and insight.

“Bones,” an immensely successful TV series based loosely on Dr. Reich’s life as a forensic examiner, recently ended a 12-year run. Reichs has now produced a stand-alone novel with Temperance Brennan nowhere in sight, and some 250 episodes of digging around in human bodies and 20 novels with the same plot are left floating around in the hazy past.

In “Two Nights,” Reichs introduces a physically and emotionally scarred woman who is smart and tough but tends to be hiding in her own secrets. Sunday Night is her name, or Sunnie as she prefers, and she has a twin brother, August Night, who is black (in contrast to her “chicken-white skin,” as he describes it), and it is he who tries to keep a strong hold on her tendency to give in to angry impulses. Two Nights, get it?

Sunnie is hired to investigate a bomb explosion that killed all members of a family except one, a fifteen year old girl who is either being held by the perps, has been killed by them, or doesn’t want to be found. The images created by the author’s creative mind are vivid and intriguing, as are the situations uncovered during Sunnie’s intense search for the truth. The grandmother who hired Sunnie is immensely rich and is willing to bankroll the investigation with unlimited funds, making for some great digs and food for Sunnie and her brother as they travel all over the country in grand style.

It’s a good story, crisp and relentless. Reichs knows how to grab a reader’s mind and keep it firmly grasped. The experience is more sensual than visual, giving the reader an actual place at the table rather than simply looking at the food. I liked it and look forward to seeing more of Sunnie Night and her brother, Gus.

It's odd, but no matter how much I want to love these books (and I do really enjoy her stories and her mystery building), I just can't seem to get on with her writing style. Reichs writes in very short, sharp sentences that just don't get through to me.

It's the action and mystery that makes this story and the characters aren't relatable enough for me to really get involved.The main character in this book, Sunday Night (a nod to the mandatory silly name in cosy mysteries), is a troubled ex-police officer with a shocking past. She's been enlisted by her friend to take on a private case to investigate the disappearance/possible murder of a young woman whose background bears similarities of her own.

My main hook when it comes to books is being able to identify with the characters in any meaningful way and honestly, I couldn't. The mystery was well written and the story suspenseful as well as satisfyingly well researched.

If you're a Kathy Reichs fan, I'm certain you'll love this book - this book takes on some very dark issues and is non-stop action throughout.

*Thanks to NetGalley for a free digital copy of this book!*

I love the Temperance Brennan series. I wasn't sure how I would feel about another character, since I'm attached to Brennan. I was worried that I wouldn't like it. The character of Sunday Night is a much darker character than Brennan. However, I liked this book as well. I liked the "twist", although I saw it coming a little earlier than revealed. Others will probably get it much sooner. The book filled in Sunday's backstory pretty well, but I would have liked more on her brother's background. How is it that they both end up having the skills they do?
This feels like a series, and I will definitely keep reading.

Sunday Night is a feisty strong independent woman, haunted by her past. Hiding from the world on her little island. Stella Bright disappeared after the booming of her family. Dragged out of her solitude by Opaline Stella's Grandmother, will Sunday be able to find Stella a year after the fact? Will she be dead or alive? This book is a very intense crime and thriller read. Another great book from Kathy Reichs.

I was a bit worried about not liking this as it's not Tempe! But I enjoyed anyway. Love Sunnie as a fresh character too! No spoilers from me, get it and read it, you won't be disappointed! Thanks for the advanced copy and look forward to the next book!

A thriller with an interesting twist on terrorism. Well done, quick and easy read.

Anyone familiar with Kathy Reichs and her bestselling series starring Tempe Brennan, knows that anything she writes is going to be good. Reichs has now written a standalone novel without Tempe. Two Knights features Sunday Night, who has for the past six years managed to stay isolated from almost everyone on Goat Island, where the only access is by private boat, which is how she likes it – no visitors and few neighbors. Sunday quit the police force after killing a vicious attacker, and since then has avoided human contact as much as possible. However, her surrogate father, Beau, comes to her island and talks her into looking into a missing person case, hoping it will heal her as well as help the family with their loss.

Sunday is a unique character; she has major scars on her face from the attack, as well as psychological scars that make her almost cynical when it comes to interacting with people as well as solving cases. Reichs has developed her character, Sunday, into someone who has enough flaws that she is believable, human, and interesting. The woman who hires her to find her granddaughter is a tough old girl and Sunday takes an immediate dislike to her. The case intrigues Sunday, however, so she takes it anyway and finds herself more involved than she plans.

As is Reichs’ style, the novel moves along quickly, and the suspense builds as Sunday and others are put into danger at every turn. Sunday isn’t a superhero, but seems to do well taking care of herself, especially when her brother checks in to help. He is also likeable and a bit protective of his sister, which is a good thing as she often needs protection.

Fans of Kathy Reichs will welcome this standalone novel; it wouldn’t be a surprise if this begins a new series, however, because Sunday is an interesting character and with Reichs’ imagination, there are probably dozens of scenarios that will make good novels.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

While I am a big fan of Kathy reichs work I didn't enjoy this like I thought I would.

The main character i didn't really like and I found her a it flat for my liking. It could have something to do with the fact that she is typical abuse or stress disorder victim and it just is all that she seems to be.

For me the book was a miss but I still enjoyed it especially the ending

I really enjoyed this new character by Kathy Reichs, Sunday Night. She is not a goody two-shoes at all,she is sarcastic and scarred, both physically and mentally. She lived through a childhood at a Jones-town type camp,her mother among the ones who killed themselves after she and her brother escaped to go for help. She served in the Army,was dishonorably discharged, after which she was a cop, also left that under bad circumstances and now lives on a small island by herself. I enjoy her quick wit, feel for her flashbacks to early childhood, and like that she decides to help a rich woman locate those who killed her daughter,grandson and took her granddaughter. Sunday is smart and has a good sense when investigating, choosing the right people to talk to and to assist. A good plot with fast scenes, smart thinking by Sunday, and a frantic chase for people and bombs until the end. I hope we will see this character again! I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley, the author Kathy Reichs and publisher Bantam Books and I sincerely thank them for this chance to tell you my thoughts.

Not the same old Kathy Reich's. Interesting new character, Sunday Night, was great, hope to see more of her.. Story kept me reading. Thanks enthralled.

A Great Start In A New Direction, A Great Read

Here is my quick take on this novel to the Temperance Brennan series:
Story: Excellent, on par with the Temperance Brennan series.
Writing Style: The same fast-paced, attention-holding style.
Plot: A rollercoaster of plot twists and turns.
Humor: The same quick cutting humor in the repartee between main characters and in describing other characters, places and situations.
Eye Rolls: Not as many.
Heroine’s Character: Both experts in their respective fields, vulnerable in their inner character, and willing to fly off and take action solo. Ms. Night, the heroine in Two Nights can handle herself in confrontations.

Now, Kathy Reichs has changed direction with this new novel from a forensic anthropologist working in a medical examiner’s office to a private investigator who is an ex-army and a medically retired police officer. So, while the storyline has changed, you will find much in common with the Temperance Brennan series as detailed above. I felt right at home reading this novel.

The novel starts with learning just how much the heroine, Ms. Sunday Night, really likes, enjoys and protects her privacy. A neighbor, only identified as Beau, who as a police officer took Ms. Night in as a troubled youth, tells her that he was contacted by a rich elderly Charleston woman. A year earlier, the woman’s daughter and grandson were killed by a bombing of a Jewish school in Chicago and a granddaughter was kidnapped by the bombers. The Chicago police have not made any progress, and the case is stone cold. She would like to employ Ms. Night to find her granddaughter. After some reluctance, she takes the job. She flies to Chicago to meet with the detectives on the case and rendezvous with her twin brother, Gus. The storyline proceeds rapidly from this point and goes from coast to coast, north and south.

The B-storyline is primarily centered on Sunday and Gus and a little with Beau and one of the Chicago detective. It is rich and well woven into the main story. It enrichens the enjoyment of reading this novel and provides much insight as to where the storyline is going. As this novel is at best the first in a series, it is not as rich as the Temperance Brennan series, but the first novel, Déjà Dead, also had a limited number of characters involved in the B-storyline.

Overall for me, I enjoyed this new novel as well as any of the Temperance Brennan novels. Hopefully, you will find this novel in the same light. I have rated this novel with a well-earned five stars.

I have received a free kindle version of this novel through NetGalley from Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine with a request for an honest, unbiased review. I wish to thank Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the opportunity to read this novel early.

No Bones about it: This is a really, really good book.

It is not, however, one of the author's popular books featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (she of the equally popular and long-running TV series, "Bones"). Rather, this is a thriller that stands entirely on its own.

Just to be clear, there's no anthropology here, nor forensics. And in place of a self-assured (some might say know-it-all) heroine like Temperance, the main character is more than a little flawed (some might say starting with her oddball name of Sunday Night). She's got psychological scars - and a very noticeable physical one - from a disturbed past she can't forget. She lives on a secluded island; one of her next-door neighbors hanged himself, and the neighbor on the other side avoids her in the belief that she's a crazy woman. Reminiscent of the late, great Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone, she's a bit verbally challenged - tending to speak in short, clipped responses (when she feels like speaking at all).

But she's hardly deprived of skills; in years past, she was a cop who ran into some trouble that brought her promising career to a screeching halt. Now, though, one of the few people she trusts asks her to take on the case of a missing young woman whose ultra-wealthy grandmother is convinced has been kidnapped by some kind of cult.

Sunnie, as she's called, is at first reluctant to get involved despite the promise of a lucrative payday. But when the grandmother explains that the girl's mother and brother were killed in a terrorist bombing in Chicago at the time the girl went missing, something in Sunnie's past compels her to investigate. The goal, the grandmother explains, is to find the granddaughter (hopefully alive) as well as the people behind the kidnapping (dead or alive doesn't matter). The trail leads from Charleston, South Carolina, to Chicago to California to Kentucky. It's also a rocky one for Sunnie physically (let's just say bad guys and gals are prone to carry weapons) and mentally, as events in the current situation uncomfortably mirror those of her past.

Based on my love of the Brennan series, I requested an advance review copy from the publisher - and was absolutely thrilled when that request was approved. Now that I've finished, I'm even happier. I have no doubt this one is destined for the best-seller list!

Sunday Night is a character with problems and not just with her name. When asked to help an elderly lady find her granddaughter who was abducted from a bombing at a Jewish School Sunday felt a kinship with the girl. Her search takes her across the United States, picking up tantalizing hints about what happened and learning more about herself at the same time. Another great read from Kathy Reichs.

Kathy Reichs steps away from her Temperance Brennan novels for a totally new character, Sunday Night. An angry loner with a horrible past, Night takes on a missing persons case that challenges her mentally and physically. She is definitely up for the challenge as her case explodes into something much larger than a missing girl. Highly recommended especially for Kathy Reichs or Lee Child fans.

I am a huge Fan of Kathy Reichs and love the Temperance Brennan series and the virals books so I was very keen to review this new stand alone book when it came up on Netgalley.

However to be honest for me this format just didn't work. I didn't warm to any of the main characters and I found the book a little slow and hard to follow.

It won't put me off the author as until now I have loved all her book so I will keep an eye out for the next book!

First books in a new series often spend time setting up the characters personalities, backgrounds, and motivations. And while I enjoyed this story, I found the main character difficult to connect with. The story was intense, the main character was interesting and the ending satisfying but with only vague glimpses of an emotional background story, motives seemed out of proportion.

I am looking forward to her next book in the series as this character and storyline have potential.

Introducing a new character, Sunday Night, this thriller is vastly different from her Bones characters and its an excellent change. Sunday is young, raw and a little broken with a past that haunts her but makes her hyper-aware enhancing her investigative skills. She is ex-military and ex-policewoman and is trying to come to terms with her life when she is drawn in to a job to find a missing girl.The matriarch of a wealthy Charleston family hires Ms. Night to find her granddaughter who went missing in a street bombing that killed her mother and brother.
Ms. Night follows a cold case trail with the tenacity of a bloodhound on the scent in hopes of finding the girl alive.
Kathy Reichs slowly develops this character through the evolving story with precision and flair.
This is an exciting thriller and I enjoyed the story very much. I will look forward to more books involving Sunday Night.

Kathy Reichs never disappoints with the twists and turns of her plots. Told in alternating voices, the suspense builds...Sunnie draws on the horrific experiences of her past to save a young girl who has been missing since her mother and brother were killed in an explosion. Fast-paced, hard to put down.