Oh boy here I go watching detective fiction again.
There’s something that I’ve said or at least alluded to in previous reviews that I feel like I need to make clear for new viewers each time I take on a series that treads within the genre: this stuff is hard. I don’t mean on the viewer, I mean for the writer. Done well, mysteries are some of the most engaging media to approach, but they’re also incredibly challenging, whether you try to follow the famous rules of fair play or not.
Beautiful Bones is not, by in large, a “fair play” mystery, but it has a lot in common with the genre, featuring a brilliant detective (whether or not the character actually holds that job title), a more common but more down to earth assistant, and an improbable lot of dead people turning up to be investigated.
The twist this time is that we’re taking from CSI as well as Holmes, and when you know enough about the human body (or at least skeletons), dead men do tell tales.
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