false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171968161m/128756.jpg 128756 31 <i>"In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season's dead are not found until the spring melt."</i> Readers of Kathy Reichs's cool and clever first forensic thriller <i>Déjà Dead</i> will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de Médicine Légale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues. Despite the cold weather, Tempe's workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island. Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn't revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes. <i>--Dick Adler</i> 1048701 1999 Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2) total:2659|5:588|4:1165|3:778|2:111|1:17| 2659 10173 3623 178 4 1 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jan 23 10:23:45 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 10:23:45 -0800 2008
Death du Jour is the first book I've read in 2003 that made me want to not put it down until I had turned the final page. It's well over twice as long as most of the novels I've read over the course of this year, and yet it took me less time than ma...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 07:04:17 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 06:34:41 -0800 2008 This author annoys me. This story was WAY too similar to the first book. Best friend missing to sister missing...intruder in house? oh, just a cat on fire...and all that crap about some buzzing in her memory cells all the time! I also get tried of all the metaphors, but ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 18:08:16 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 13:04:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 28 13:56:31 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 13:56:57 -0800 2008
Apparently, people have a taste for plots which are entirely held together by a soupy gl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 04 12:39:07 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 12:39:52 -0800 2008
First, you need to know that this is her second book. Deja Dead ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 07:02:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 06:21:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 06:23:23 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 18:48:09 -0700 2009
Death du Jour was much better than Déjà Dead, which was a first novel anyway; I was pleasantly surprised. It does fall victim to that classic murder mystery flaw, i.e. the convenient coincidence (murders in three different locations the protagonist happens to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 16:21:45 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 00:29:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 15:27:17 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 19:38:26 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 04:54:09 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:06:51 -0700 2009
This talented author offers a great plot and a rich cast of characters. Her entertaining and fascinating writing is peppered with enough clinical expertise to pique ones interest without overstocking the imagination. The kind of forensic detail that only Kathy Re...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 08:04:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 08:08:55 -0700 2009 Bones , which purports to be based on the life and works of author (and well-known forensic anthropologist) Kathy Reichs. Since I like the series so well, I figured, "What the heck? It's worth a try."...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:31:15 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:40:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 22:00:46 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 23:43:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 19:48:45 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 09:00:50 -0700 2009 1
Bodies are turning up everywhere in this girl's life. Slowly connecting the pieces together to a brain washing cu...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:42:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:46:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 06:05:48 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 06:05:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 14:53:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:09:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 11:23:12 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 11:23:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 07:26:54 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 05:31:32 -0700 2009 1
I think maybe it was better for me because I knew the charact...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 23 16:14:14 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 20:18:21 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 16:14:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=128756