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Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan #7)
by
Kathy Reichs
The secrets of the dead are in her hands.
The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, ev...more
The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, ev...more
Paperback, 383 pages
Published
May 24th 2005
by Pocket Star
(first published June 14th 2004)
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I have read all of Kathy Reichs’s offerings since her first book, Deja Dead was published in 1997. I have to ask myself why.
I don’t particularly like Temperance Brennan, Kathy Reichs’ forensic heroine. I don’t like the settings of her novels, and even though I speak French, I don’t like it when her characters do.
Kathy Reichs has excellent story ideas and her plots are gripping. However, her characterization is weak. She seems to have decided that Tempe needs problems, and throws in a drinking p...more
I don’t particularly like Temperance Brennan, Kathy Reichs’ forensic heroine. I don’t like the settings of her novels, and even though I speak French, I don’t like it when her characters do.
Kathy Reichs has excellent story ideas and her plots are gripping. However, her characterization is weak. She seems to have decided that Tempe needs problems, and throws in a drinking p...more
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L'anthropologue judiciaire Temperance Brennan enquête. Le détective Paul Claudel qu'elle n'apprécie pas particulièrement, soutient que les ossements sont anciens puisque des boutons datant du dix-neuvième siècle ont été trouvés tout près des squelettes. Aucune raison qu'il se mêle de ce cas. Affaire close. Mais Tempe soupçonne le contraire et décide d'examiner les ossements dans son laboratoire. Si elle a raison, Claudel pourrait bien se retrouver avec trois meurtres récents sur les bras... ce q...more
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Number 8 in the Tempe Brennen mystery series. The discovery of bones in the basement of a pizza parlor sets the forensic anthropologist on the trail of a serial kidnapper/rapist/killer. On the romantic front, she’s not sure her relationship with Ryan is going anywhere, and her best friend arrives for an extended stay as she tries to decide if she’s leaving her husband for good.
Reichs knows how to write a thriller, maintaining tension despite the fast-moving plot....more
Number 8 in the Tempe Brennen mystery series. The discovery of bones in the basement of a pizza parlor sets the forensic anthropologist on the trail of a serial kidnapper/rapist/killer. On the romantic front, she’s not sure her relationship with Ryan is going anywhere, and her best friend arrives for an extended stay as she tries to decide if she’s leaving her husband for good.
Reichs knows how to write a thriller, maintaining tension despite the fast-moving plot....more
Continuing with the Temperance Brennan series, my daily treadmill companions, I just finished Monday Mourning. While Reichs continues to employ a formula that makes the stores somewhat predictable, her writing was a little stronger in this installment than it's been in the others. Sure, there were the sudden, inconvenient call in to examine human, or possibly human, remains; the interrupted plans; the friend or relative in crisis; the tortured fight against a relationship with Detective Andrew R...more
Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, is asked to examine bones from a Montreal basement and thus begins a murder mystery and a trip through forensic medicine. The forensic details are cool, like being able to tell where a person grew up and live the last 6 years by the strontium levels in teeth and bone respectively. The story itself is a bit contrived with a ditzy southern accented girlfriend, a tangled romance with a mysterious, buff cop, a gruff and unfriendly detective, a mysteriou...more
Maybe best yet in unusual "skeleton doc" series!
This is the seventh novel in the successful and best-selling Tempe Brennon, board-certified forensic pathologist, series. Tempe is an exact replica of author Dr. Reichs in real life: same job, same education and background, and same dividing her time between two job settings - one in Montreal (she speaks fluent French) and one in North Carolina. Early in the book, Tempe testifies as an expert witness, but this was really just a ploy to describe the...more
This is the seventh novel in the successful and best-selling Tempe Brennon, board-certified forensic pathologist, series. Tempe is an exact replica of author Dr. Reichs in real life: same job, same education and background, and same dividing her time between two job settings - one in Montreal (she speaks fluent French) and one in North Carolina. Early in the book, Tempe testifies as an expert witness, but this was really just a ploy to describe the...more
Another opportunity for poor Detective Claudel to apologize. When will the guy knock off the arrogant attitude & learn to listen before jumping to conclusions? Or is Tempe just manufacturing cases? The discoveries in this plot are moving - Stockholm syndrome explained.
The issues with Ryan are a little melodramatic. Tempe has to learn to face things directly instead of this constant insecure speculation that leads nowhere, except to lost sleep and inattention at work. It's nice to read abou...more
The issues with Ryan are a little melodramatic. Tempe has to learn to face things directly instead of this constant insecure speculation that leads nowhere, except to lost sleep and inattention at work. It's nice to read abou...more
Monday mourning is the seventh novel featuring Temperance Brennan, a Forensic Anthropologist who works for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciares et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec, Canada. If you haven’t read any of the previous novels featuring the character, please do not dismiss this book solely for that reason.
Temperance Brennan is a forty something Forensic Anthropologist who divides her time between Charlotte in North Carolina and Montreal in Canada. She works for the state...more
Temperance Brennan is a forty something Forensic Anthropologist who divides her time between Charlotte in North Carolina and Montreal in Canada. She works for the state...more
Early on in this book, Riechs/Brennan makes the observation that TV has warped peoples ideas about forensics and that forensic scientists are not detectives. That cops catch criminals. Shortly there after, Brennan and her best friend Anne are off doing a Cagney and Lacy impression after Brennan is dissatisfied with Claudel's handling of the case.
And TV warps peoples ideas?
The book is a good enough read although it took Brennan a bit longer than it took me to figure out who the criminal was. At...more
And TV warps peoples ideas?
The book is a good enough read although it took Brennan a bit longer than it took me to figure out who the criminal was. At...more
Tempe Brennan est envoyée déterrer des os retrouver sous un pizzeria à Montréal. Elle découvre en tout trois squelettes de jeunes femmes. Les policiers ne sont pas pressés d'enquêter sur ces morts car ils croient que les décès datent du siècle précédent. Tempe doit alors faire tout ce qui est possible pour prouver que ces morts ont eu lieu récemment et qu'on doit retrouver le meurtrier le plus vite possible.
Ce que j'ai le plus aimé, c'est qu'on a pas affaire ici à l'éternel détective blasé comme...more
Ce que j'ai le plus aimé, c'est qu'on a pas affaire ici à l'éternel détective blasé comme...more
الكتاب يشبه فيلم أجنبي مليئ بالإثارة والتشويق والغموض. الكتاب يتطرق لموضوعات الجريمة، الرومانسية، العلوم الحديثة. كل هذا في سياق درامي ممتع وجذاب. ولذلك تجد أن من الصعب التوقف عند نقطة معينة دون الرغبة في معرفة ما سيحدث تالياً. الكتاب ممتع.
If you like the Temperance Brennan crime series (not the same as the Bones TV show) this is just another great book. Sure there are some elements that are the same but I like the little surprises that get thrown in. Can't help it. To me these are the most realistic of the crime drama genre.
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She shou...more
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She shou...more
Para quem não sabe (mas devem ter notado pelo nome da personagem principal), é nos livros desta autora que se baseia a série televisiva "Ossos". Foi o que me chamou mais a atenção no livro, pois gosto bastante da série, e por isso queria experimentar um dos livros. Mas devo dizer que a única coisa em comum é mesmo o facto de haver uma Temperance Brennan, que é Antropóloga Forense. Não há mais nenhuma das personagens da série (pelo menos neste livro, não sei se acontece o mesmo nos outros), e a p...more
I always enjoy the Temperance Brennan novels, but I tend to favor the ones set outside of Canada. Monday Mourning ended up being the exception. I loved the mystery and the back and forth during the investigation between Tempe and Claudel. Kathy Reichs has a way of "dumbing down" the science so readers can firmly grasp the concepts presented and that was highly effective in this novel. The only thing I didn't enjoy was Tempe's reactions to her issues with Ryan. She's strong and straight-forward i...more
Well!
Sped through this book, with its tales of Montreal and crime lords and bizarre malignant situations, spun together with romantic intrigues and friends in trouble. It's a quick, urgent read, hard to put down and fun to read. I've zipped through it once, now to review to study the structure.
Reichs is so good at creating suspense between chapters you keep thinking to yourself you'll stop after this chapter, only to find yourself unable to. My dog is seriously annoyed at me for my ignoring him...more
Sped through this book, with its tales of Montreal and crime lords and bizarre malignant situations, spun together with romantic intrigues and friends in trouble. It's a quick, urgent read, hard to put down and fun to read. I've zipped through it once, now to review to study the structure.
Reichs is so good at creating suspense between chapters you keep thinking to yourself you'll stop after this chapter, only to find yourself unable to. My dog is seriously annoyed at me for my ignoring him...more
Yet another Temperance Brennan novel devoured in two days! This is the 7th of the on-going series that also inspired the TV series, Bones. I would have liked to read them in order, but there's also a kind of enjoyment of reading them in this non-linear way; here among other things I've learned how Temperance comes to own Charlie, and how Ryan comes to know of his daughter.
The plot is tightly structured and once again weaves true cases into the fictionalized story. In this case, we are dealing wi...more
The plot is tightly structured and once again weaves true cases into the fictionalized story. In this case, we are dealing wi...more
Flew through this one (not unlike its predecessors, but still). For most of the first half of the book, I kept thinking, "Have I already read this one? Dead girls... marks at the ears...?", but knew I hadn't because of the progression of Brennan's personal life.
Things didn't quite fit together in this one, though. While Reichs attempted to go into the psychology behind a lot of the characters' actions, it felt jerky and strained -- mental damage is definitely not her forte.
The reasons I usually...more
Things didn't quite fit together in this one, though. While Reichs attempted to go into the psychology behind a lot of the characters' actions, it felt jerky and strained -- mental damage is definitely not her forte.
The reasons I usually...more
Last weekend I read the excellent but almost-too-disturbing-to-finish Monday Mourning. Tempe is back in Montreal for this installment of the Bones-inspiring series. When three sets of bones are found buried in a pizza parlor basement, police are convinced they date to the nineteenth century when the building was built. Tempe has other thoughts on the matter, and she digs until a pattern of missing girls over a series of years emerges. The dark truth revealed in the last few pages caused me to sc...more
Reminds me of the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. The "Bones" TV series is based on these books, but the only thing the book has in common with the TV show is the main character's name & occupation. Still, a pretty good crime/mystery novel.
Monday Mourning was about the uncovering of three skeletons, of which are of unknown origin. It is up to Temperance Brennan and other officer's to find and apprehend the perpetrator of these heinous crimes. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy good reads and and nice mystery. I was captive to its story, as it was a very good one. I would suggest reading the first book, however, so you can understand the characters more. The book had nice plot twist and it was still enjoyable even thou...more
As the first Temperance Brennan book I've read (and most likely the last), I'd say this is better than okay, except for the see-it-coming-from-a-mile-away ending and several bouts of especially bad writing. I don't mean grammatical errors, but the kind of poor diction you can't describe or predict, only recognize. A couple of my favorite examples:
page 3: "I watched Claudel's perfectly fitted buttocks disappear through the small rectangular opening. Though tempted, I pegged not a single rock."
pag...more
page 3: "I watched Claudel's perfectly fitted buttocks disappear through the small rectangular opening. Though tempted, I pegged not a single rock."
pag...more
I just find the main character very annoying. She gives the man she so-called loves the run around, she won't talk to him, she won't tell him what she's thinking, leaving him utterly confused. Just talk to the man! She works out who the victim is, that is her job. THEN she takes over the policeman's job and tries to figure out who did the murder. She keeps going off by herself and needs to be rescued by someone and it drives me nuts! This Tempe really annoys me because she is always talking abou...more
In the beginning I was very disappointed and would give the book two stars. I was expecting a sort of prequel to Bones the TV series. It was nothing like it and the book included a lot of french - so much so it could have been bilingual. I gave it a chance and pretended Dr. Temperance Brennan was another character - since she was. And I enjoyed it. The story was very interesting and was actually loosely based on a case Kathy herself actually once worked. So here is the order: Kathy is an actual...more
If you like the Bones tv series, this is nothing like it. Ok, so the tv series is based off of this author's books, but Temperance Brennen is nothing in the book like she is on the show. However that being said, while I'm a huge fan of the show, I also like the books. Basically, you have the anthropologist figuring out who the body is and who dun it, and throw in a little of her personal life and drama. They are engaging and enjoyable. Warning - she has no issue with swear words. This one actual...more
another excellent book from Kathy Reichs intricatley woven plot to have you flying through chapters without you realising. Amazing how the relationship between Ryan and Tempe is still taking unexpected turns. Characters are all still very realistic and have good depth and issues....dont we all love characters with issues. You need to leave yourself plenty of time to read these books if you are like me you can't put a book down in the middle of a chapter. Reichs leaves nearly every chapter on a c...more
From a review written in 2005:
Also, despite having a bag full of books to read, as I cut through the bookstore [...] I somehow purchased Kathy Reichs last mystery, Monday Mourning. I think my justification is that it was in the used section & that if I decide not to keep it I can include it in a shipment for Operation Paperback. I read about 2/3 of it while at the beach, and polished off the rest tonight at home. Reichs has never fulfilled the promise I saw in her first two books, falling p...more
Also, despite having a bag full of books to read, as I cut through the bookstore [...] I somehow purchased Kathy Reichs last mystery, Monday Mourning. I think my justification is that it was in the used section & that if I decide not to keep it I can include it in a shipment for Operation Paperback. I read about 2/3 of it while at the beach, and polished off the rest tonight at home. Reichs has never fulfilled the promise I saw in her first two books, falling p...more
May 09, 2012
Jeffrey
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Recommends it for:
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read-in-2012
In a horrendous regression from her recent work in the series, Kathy Reichs reverts back to her procedural roots in a story that is obvious, unsurprising, and, frankly, just unentertaining.
Three sets of bones are found in the basement of a pizza parlour (it's Quebecois, with a u!) and they turn out to belong to missing girls. What these girls have fallen into isn't terribly surprising, nor is there really an opportunity to develop mystery, because it becomes pretty clear who the killer is as soo...more
Three sets of bones are found in the basement of a pizza parlour (it's Quebecois, with a u!) and they turn out to belong to missing girls. What these girls have fallen into isn't terribly surprising, nor is there really an opportunity to develop mystery, because it becomes pretty clear who the killer is as soo...more
One of many Kathy Reichs books from a charity shop that I thought I'd try. First thing to note is it is nothing like the "Bones" TV Show. The characters are different, the setting is different - even the country is different!
On to the story ...
You can read the blurb, and that gives you the overview quite nicely. What it doesn't tell you I'd the dark nature of the story. It can be quite challenging in places but I'll say no more to keep the spoilers to a minimum. Suffice it to say this is a book...more
On to the story ...
You can read the blurb, and that gives you the overview quite nicely. What it doesn't tell you I'd the dark nature of the story. It can be quite challenging in places but I'll say no more to keep the spoilers to a minimum. Suffice it to say this is a book...more
Kathy Reich is always a good read. Her books are well-researched, thoroughly descriptive and thrilling page-turners. Towards the end of her sleuthing to unravel the mysterious deaths in Montreal, she made a statement, something to the effect: "This is Canada, for God's sake. These things don't happen in Canada." Well unfortunately sometimes they do. She even quote some big-name horror stories that took place in 'peaceful' Canada. But it's nice to think that some American's still believe that we'...more
Story: Forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan investigates the remains of three girls found in the basement of a pizza parlor. Her examinations and findings results in locating a serial SM killer who abducts and holds young women as slaves.
The story shows how this discovery is made, including fine information about the field of forensics, and some OK police procedure.
Tempe's personal life is strewn throughout, including her emotional extremes about her current lover-detective, Ryan and th...more
The story shows how this discovery is made, including fine information about the field of forensics, and some OK police procedure.
Tempe's personal life is strewn throughout, including her emotional extremes about her current lover-detective, Ryan and th...more
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Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A...more
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