The story is set after the first two novels, Virals and Seizure. Shift: Shift is a novella about a recent theft at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. We finally get to learn about how Tory’s friendship with Ben, Shelton, and Hiram began. She at first hates her situation, but something changes her view of Charleston and turns her into the girl who leads the viral series. Tory Brennan has just landed in Charleston for the first time.

Shock: This short novella tells the story before Virals. Because, as novellas, there is little to no character development, and they are separate stories, I will be using a slightly different structure to review them. Three of the stories are fun mysteries with fast paced plots. These stories include the action and excitement expected of a Virals novel and feature Tory’s great aunt Temperance Brennan. In case you needed more Virals or were very upset by Terminal’s ending, Kathy Reichs provides the four novellas, Shirt, Swipe, Shock, and Spike, in her latest book, Trace Evidence. He plans to keep writing novels until they drag him from his desk.Kathy Reichs’s Trace Evidence is a collection of novellas. He lives in Charlotte with his wife, Emily, daughter, Alice, and son, Henry. After three long years working as a litigation attorney, he abandoned the trade to co-write the Virals series. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2000 and The George Washington University School of Law in 2006. For more information, please visit Brendan Reichs was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her latest novels, Bones Never Lie and Terminal, were both instant Sunday Times bestsellers. Her first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

In this collection of short stories, Kathy ties up all the loose ends in Tory's worldįans of the Virals series will be thrilled with this companion volume that includes three short stories originally published as digital short stories as well as an all-new, never-before-seen Virals adventure! Shift, Swipe, Shock and the new story Spike give further glimpses of the Virals' world as they work with Tory's famous great aunt, Temperance Brennan, to solve more mysteries, take a look at where it all started before they became Virals, and get to the bottom of an attempted sabatoge at Kit and Whitney's wedding.Ībout the Authors: Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec and a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Kathy Reichs' Virals series has been an enormous hit with Young adult and adult readers alike. A collection of four short stories based on the Virals series from Sunday Times bestselling author, Kathy Reichs! Includes, Swipe, Shift, Shock, and the never before seen Spike.

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