Sunday Night has cut herself off from everyone hiding off by herself with her physical and psychological scars haunting her. But when she is contacted to help and offered quite a bit of money to find a girl that has gone missing after the chaos of a bomb she decides to take the case.

Sunnie finds herself traveling and following the clues to help her solve the questions still being asked of whether the girl was dead or was she taken? During her time Sunnie will need to face her own demons that have been haunting her for the past several years.

Two Nights is my first read by Kathy Reichs who I have been wanting to try reading for quite a while and thought with this being a standalone it would be the perfect time to try her work out. When seeing this book up for review I was quite thrilled to receive a copy and had looked forward to reading it. Unfortunately the book really ended up somewhat a disappointment for me as I really thought I would love it.

My main issue with this book was simply I never really liked the main character at all. I don’t know why but as a flawed character is usually one to become quite attached to but instead I never could connect with Sunnie which just made connecting to everything else going on quite a chore. To be honest by halfway I knew this wasn’t a book for me and began skimming here and there just to finish. The good news for me though now that I’m done is I’m reading how this is so different from the normal Kathy Reichs works that I’ll still give her another shot sometime and chalk it up to just not connecting with this particular story.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

Two Nights is a suspense novel centered around Sunday "Sunnie" Night, a troubled woman with a horrific past that she does her best to never remember. She is yanked out of her recluse lifestyle by a case that tugs at her childhood memories, and once she begins investigating she refuses to stop until she has gotten to the bottom of the whole mess, even if it sparks recollections she would rather forget. While the story is not bad, I couldn't really get attached to any of the characters. Additionally, it was lacking in the science tidbits that I expect and enjoy in Kathy Reichs books. If there is a sequel I will probably read it, but will not be waiting at the edge of my seat for it to be released.

Sunday Night is a former policewoman, damaged physically and emotionally from events initially unknown to the reader. She lives alone in a small shack on a sparsely inhabited island off the Charleston SC shore. At night she locks doors, but it seems most of the demons are still within. A former colleague and mentor visits her with a case of a missing girl. Beau believes Sunday needs to get involved not only to find the girl, but perhaps herself. Curious but cautious Sunday enters a world of fanaticism and danger, a world that she had hoped she had left behind.

Settings range from South Carolina, Chicago and LA. People ranged from the rich, desperate and violent. Sunday hopes for an outcome against all odds with some help from unexpected sources. Rules are bent and almost broken. This was the first Kathy Reich book I read, so unlike other reviewers who have read the Temperance Brennan series, I easily embraced an edgy, tough, sarcastic and smart character.
Sunday persists driven by both her past and the hope of finding the young girl. I was up all night for Sunday Night with the hope that she will return for another adventure.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an opportunity to review this exciting book.

Enjoyed the style this book Two Nights by Kathy Reichs was written with. I didn't expect the twist at the end.

Two things stuck out to me after reading this: the 1 dimensional, painfully stereotypical characters and the lackluster plot. It felt as though the author used a political message as the foundation and devised a weak and shaky plot around it-- one of my greatest pet peeves! I was racing to the end, not because I cared about what happened to the characters, but because I couldn't wait to finish and put this book behind me once and for all.

This is a very good mystery and I sell a lot of her books in my bookstore. This is a stand alone novel and is not part of her series books

I have read several otters by this author and this might be one of the best that I have read. Loved the main character and the ending that I did not expect. The book was hard to put down!

This latest work by Kathy Reichs features Sunnie Night, a former member of the military and police officer with a very sordid past. She is spending her life in quiet seclusion in South Carolina when she's provided the opportunity to solve a case involving a missing girl and a bombing. The book focuses on her expeditions as she tries to solve this case with flashbacks to her very messed up childhood interspersed. It brings in themes that are very real in today's society. This was the first book I've read by this infamous author who penned the books that the show Bones was based on. I wasn't really that impressed with the book. Sure, Sunnie has her special features as a character - missing an eye, screwed up past that's left some deep scars - but I really felt like I didn't get a chance to know who she is inside and why she made certain decisions. Because of this, I had a hard time connecting with her. I found the pace to be really slow for the first half of the book. Overall, the case itself was interesting, and I thought there was promise in this new character when I first starting reading the book, but found it fell short.

Sunday Night is a tough and damaged woman. Once a police officer, she now lives as a recluse on an island. A friend asks her to take on a case of a missing girl whose family was killed in a bomb attack about a year earlier. The grandmother wants vengeance for those who killed her daughter, grandson and maybe granddaughter. The search takes Sunday across the nation, where she has to defend herself against some dangerous people.

I enjoyed this standalone novel from Kathy Reichs. It was intense and moving and I could feel the trauma Sunday is going through; both past and present. I would read another story Sunday Night to learn more about her.

Fans of Kathy Reich will enjoy this stand alone thriller with a strong female heroine is the main character.

Kathy Reichs--author of the Temperance Brennan “Bones” series--has written a stand-alone, noir-ish PI story featuring a damaged heroine a la Lisbeth Salander. Sunday “Sunnie” Night is an angry, impetuous, scarred (literally and figuratively) military veteran, whose subsequent career in law enforcement came to an end after a questionable shooting. Still suffering from flashbacks of Helmand Province, Sunnie’s coping strategy is to need no one and feel nothing. She’s lost 30% of her vision and experiences recurring shoulder pain. Instead of a cat named Birdie, she has a squirrel named Bob for a pet at her cabin on a remote island.

Sunnie’s former mentor recommends her to Opaline Drucker, a proud Charleston dowager, whose daughter and grandson were killed during a domestic terrorist attack. Her granddaughter, Stella, disappeared in the melee. It is unknown whether Stella is dead or alive. Opaline wants Sunnie to bring the perpetrators to justice and discover what happened to her granddaughter.

Sunnie begrudgingly accepts the assignment, largely because of demons in her own past. What ensues is a lively chase from one coast to the other as Sunnie tracks down first one, then another, of the terrorist cell, all the while unable to confirm Stella’s whereabouts.

There is no forensic or scientific analysis here. At times the chase got a bit exhausting, and I yearned for a sedentary laboratory scene. Nevertheless, Reich’s exploration of the link between religious fanaticism and violence kept the novel timely and fresh. I wouldn’t mind seeing future installments of Sunnie Night.

Thanks to Netgally, the publisher and Kathy Reichs, I received an advanced copy of this book.

Former military and police, Sunday "Sunnie" Night now spends most of her days as a recluse living on a small SC island. Still coming to grips from her tragic past and an injury to her eye that forced her retirement, Sunnie likes the quiet life. When a pal drops an offer on her plate -a wealthy woman searching for her missing granddaughter - Sunnie accepts the job. The case reminds her too much of her past.

Sunnie begins a cross-country hunt that has her fighting for her life and dealing with drudged up memories of her past. Is the granddaughter still alive? Can Sunnie find her?

I really enjoyed the book. It was so different from the Tempe Brennan books and I liked that. It was dark, but I couldn't put it down. I thought Sunnie was such a badass. I hope there's more books in the future.

Sunday Night is a former police officer who has spent most of her adult life running from her past and living as a hermit. Her foster father talks her into taking a year old cold case involving a missing teenager. Sunday agrees and flies out to Chicago where the bombing occurred and where the teenager disappeared. Sunday recruits her brother to help her and they stumble into more deaths and more impending tragedies.

I really liked this story. It is very different from Kathy Reichs usual style. It had a lot of action. I found Sunday to be an interesting character but felt it took to long in the book for me to fully understand her past. But overall really good book. I received an advance copy from netgalley for review.

I love the Bones series and so I had no trouble reviewing this new stand alone novel. I thought the writing was fine, but the characters were very rough around the edges. The introduction jumped right into the story without much, well, introduction. I couldn't figure out of the narrator was male or female. The setting seemed a little farfetched, as far as the main character living on an isolated island, rather than just being isolated emotionally.

An addictive story with a twisted and hilariously funny sense of humor. Sunday Night used to be a cop. Something bad happened and she is now retired. She is sucked into "one last job" that she can't turn down because it resonates with her own mysterious backstory. This is all pretty typical and there are a million noir novels like this. But right off the bat, the story turns the tropes upside down with an original and fresh take. Yes, Sunday is damaged, but she shows it on her disfigured face. She is strong, so strong... one might call her a bad@ss. She is smart, resourceful and the kind of detective that can outwit even the worst of the bad guys. She is paranoid but, considering someone may be out to get her, she is justified. The story is very entertaining and easy to read. And Sunday is simply fantastic. Her voice is so compelling, pessimistic but willing to fight for what she thinks is right, even if she doesn't fool herself into thinking that everything will be OK. An excellent, five star read.

This was such a good book. Sunnie Night is hired to locate the men that killed her client's daughter and grandson, and possibly locate her missing Granddaughter. Sunnier has some issues. She was severely wounded while a police officer. She lives on a tiny island with few inhabitants. She is close to being a recluse.
Sunnie is a very interesting and complex character. She has a very tragic past. The details come out slowly. There is a lot of twists and turns.
****I voluntarily reviewed and gave my honest opinion of this Advanced Readers Copy of this
book from NetGalley****

I am a big fan of Kathy Reichs, but this book left me confused. Parts of the story was in italics and what happened seemed to be connected to the current time frame. In the end, though we find out it was not. I think some clue to what was portrayed in the italics would have enhanced it. I guess the italics were flashbacks. A date might have helped me look at the story in depth and improved my enjoyment of the story.

Sunday Night is a too over the top and with little reason for it given.

Although I didn't enjoy the characters quite as much as her other series, Sunday Night is a great addition to Kathy Reichs repertoire. I enjoyed the story and look forward to reading more with this heroine and her intriguing back story

I have read and thoroughly enjoyed the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs. Thus, I figured, when I got this book from NetGalley to read and review, I would also like this stand-alone one. After reading the book, however, I can only say I did not enjoy it as much as her other books. I just did not. I found the main character, Sunday Night, known to her friends as “Sunnie”, a character I had difficulty liking and taking to. Sunnie has major physical and psychological scars that overshadow her life and have made her a recluse. In the story, Sunnie is hired by a wealthy woman to find out what happened when her daughter and son were killed in a bomb blast at a Jewish school they were visiting and her granddaughter apparently kidnapped. Sunnie jumps right into this mystery, as she feels badly for the dead woman and her son and for the kidnapped girl.

Sunnie is a real loner. In addition to a difficult past as a police office, from which she was retired early after a bad confrontation with a criminal, when she was injured and disfigured badly, Sunnie also carries the additional bad memories and history from her military time in Afghanistan, where she also had difficulty and left the service on terms other than good. All this is what lead Sunnie to become a recluse and to embody the psychological and physical scars she cares with her. Sunnie is fiercely independent, but carries her independence a bit far. She must be charge. She cannot take orders. She does not work well as a team because she is a real loner in the truest sense of the word. Her prickly attitude and modus operandi do not endear her to many of the other law enforcement personnel who worked this case when it originally occurred several months ago and who must bring her up to speed and with whom she must work as she tries to find the group responsible for the bombing. Soon however, seemingly out of the blue, as she is in the middle of tracking down the group who perpetrated this heinous act of violence, a close male friend, Gus, appears on the scene to assist her, and she and Gus begin working as a team to find and take down the perpetrators. There is only one other person who Sunnie appears, in the story, to like and tolerate, Beau, the man who initially put her into contact with the wealthy woman who hired her to find the group responsible for the bombing that killed her daughter and son and who have kidnapped/killed her granddaughter. I would have preferred the author present a team player who could accept her faults and get along better with others—and not be so overcome by her physical and psychological scars. The author developed Sunnie as an independent, well skilled, but difficult person, but neglected to also develop her as a realistic, open, team player, or even someone with whom most people could get along without much difficulty. I have read many books where the PI is an independent broker for justice for his/her client, but never have I encountered one who was so prickly and so unable to get along or assist other law enforcement or become a team player. If the author intends to continue this as a series, and I am not sure about her intentions regarding Sunnie. I hope she will temper Sunnie to make her not so prickly, aggressive, thick-headed or unable to get along with almost anyone else except her two friends Gus and Beau. I think there is potential for this to be a new series, but not without some major changes in personality for the main character. I found it difficult to read with such an unlikable main character. Yes, there were many clever things Sunnie came up with and pursued, but watching her in action was not easy. The plot moved along well and at a good pace. There are some good twists and turns in the plot, as there always have been in the Temperance Brennan series. The interactions between Sunnie and Gus, who also was well developed and complimented Sunnie well, came across well. All the author has to do is tone done Sunnie a bit and create the atmosphere where Sunnie interacts with the rest of the characters the same way she interacts with Gus. At this point, I am not sure whether I would read another Sunday Night book. I would definitely try, but, with as unlikable a character as Sunnie was in this book, I am not sure I could get through it easily.