

The group must work together to not only solve a murder, but to control their new-found powers and use them at just the right times. The group call their new powers ‘flaring’ and they are a main feature of the entire Virals series of books, as they help the group out when they’re in trouble. The infection turns them into superheroes of a kind, giving them superior speed, strength and senses.


The group set out to find out who the dog tag belonged to, but along the way they uncover an unsolved murder, but they also end up infected by a virus which gives them special powers. While looking around the island, the friends find a dog tag belonging to a Vietnam War soldier. In Virals, we are introduced to the character of Tory Brennan, who is with her friends Hiram, Ben and Shelton on Loggerhead Island. The first book in the Virals series is simply called Virals, and it was published in 2010. The Virals series if part crime fiction and part science-fiction adventure. Kathy Reichs co-authors the Virals series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The Virals series of books are a series of young adult fiction novels written by the American author Kathy Reichs, which feature as the main protagonist the character of Tory Brennan, the great-niece of Reichs’ most famous character, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who starts in her own series of books aimed at the adujlt market.
