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Death du Jour

(Temperance Brennan #2)

Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)

3.97 · Rating details · 43,718 ratings · 1,486 reviews

Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the clo ...more

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Jun 09, 2008 Wade WDM rated it it was amazing

I started watching the TV show "Bones" (on Fox) last season, but I had known that the show was based on Kathy Reichs character Temperance Brennan. That's about all the similarities that there are between the TV show and the book. You could stretch and say that Quebec Detective Ryan is Seely Booth, but that's reeealllyyy reaching it.

I like a good mystery, detective novel, and this book does not fail me! Not only is there a nice chunk of CSI thrown in there is also one of my favorite topics, cults ...more

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Jan 14, 2019 Ken rated it liked it · review of another edition

I’m really struggling to separate these books from the TV show, though I found that I enjoyed this one more than the first book.
Maybe I’m starting to get use to this original Temperance...

These are the types of books that I normally enjoy, so I’m a little disappointed that it hasn’t hooked me as much as the show.

I reckon I’d should give it a sizeable gap between finishing watching all the episodes then returning to theses books at a later date.

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Aug 18, 2013 Mir rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery

Death is on the menu today at your international chain ~~restaurant~~ murder cult. Luckily for crime prevention, you coincidentally happen to live part time in all the locations that possess these sanguine establishments. And because you work a bizillion hours a week you go out to eat a lot.

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Nov 05, 2017 Thomas Strömquist marked it as dnf · review of another edition

This is a series that I won't be pursuing. Almost 20 % into the book and it reads a little like a Standard Operating Procedure for lab work. If you've done any such, save yourself the boredom. The only other mentions is hinting of the title character's all good traits; she's hard-working, honest, virtuous, beautiful, slim, nice, did I mention beautiful?. And she handles pipettes and forensic tools with the same determination and purpose as she prepares her meals and... ...more

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Jan 04, 2008 Heather rated it it was ok

***SPOILER ALERT***
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 that was better in this book at least. So far I just find the writing amateurish and it feels like she's trying too hard.
I also HATED the ending. We did not get to see any of the links unfold, she just summed i ...more

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Jan 23, 2008 Robert Beveridge rated it really liked it

Shelves: finished, owned-and-gave-away

Kathy Reichs, Death du Jour (Arrow, 1999)

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 many of them to get through. It does have its problems, but readability is certainly not one of them.

Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who divides her time between North Carolina and Quebec, is in the Kathy Reichs, Death du Jour (Arrow, 1999)

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 many of them to get through. It does have its problems, but readability is certainly not one of them.

Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who divides her time between North Carolina and Quebec, is in the latter province as the story opens, sifting through the supposed grave of a nun who is being proposed for beatification. Things don't go as planned. Not long after she gets home, she's called to the scene of a devastating house fire to check out a few more bodies. Things don't go as planned. She gets caught up in the twin mysteries of the nun and the house fire, and off we go.

The best thing about the book is its compelling readability. Reichs makes her work unputdownable through throwing clues, monkeywrenches, and events at the reader nonstop from the first chapter till the last. There's never a let-up, no pause for breathing. And this in a novel that tops four hundred pages; it's like making an Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick that runs six hours. Few people are going to try, fewer still will succeed. Reichs manages it well here.

The bad thing about the book, and yes, there is one, is its predictability. There are many points in the book where something happens and it's obvious to the reader how the event connects into the whole puzzle, even while it escapes the police, the main character, and everyone else in the novel. When it comes right down to it, the mystery isn't really much of a mystery; it's more a police procedural than anything else. Or it would be if it weren't trying so hard to be a mystery.

Still, that's not a reason to dismiss a book that hooks a reader this quickly and this decisively. Death du Jour is the perfect way to kill a weekend, a fast-paced, easy read that will make the hours fly by as you wander through the world of Tempe Brennan. **** ...more

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Oct 02, 2013 Tommy Marx rated it it was ok

Kathy Reichs is a fairly good writer. She does have an obsession with clumsy similes that are often so bad they take me out of the story completely, but that aside, she generally is a good writer. That said, this book annoyed the hell out of me.

My first complaint is that Reichs constantly creates fake mysteries that are only mysterious because she won't state what the characters figure out. At the beginning, Tempe (her main character) discovers something important about a would-be-saint from the Kathy Reichs is a fairly good writer. She does have an obsession with clumsy similes that are often so bad they take me out of the story completely, but that aside, she generally is a good writer. That said, this book annoyed the hell out of me.

My first complaint is that Reichs constantly creates fake mysteries that are only mysterious because she won't state what the characters figure out. At the beginning, Tempe (her main character) discovers something important about a would-be-saint from the 1800s. Throughout the novel we're constantly reminded that there's some major twist regarding the would-be-saint's bones that might cause a problem. And Reichs refuses to reveal that twist until the very end, even though it's inconsequential (it has nothing whatsoever to do with the main story) and feels like a major letdown once she reveals it. That would be bad enough, but she does the shell trick with every single thing that happens in the story. Any details regarding anything that takes place in the story cannot be revealed until Reichs has avoided revealing the details at least 241 times. Honestly, if Tempe ordered lunch from a deli, I would fully expect to find out via a major revelation 200 pages later that a pickle was included in the deal, a pickle that (gasp) she did not ask for.

Reichs doesn't create suspense, she creates annoyances. It's the literary equivalent of the cat jumping out of the shadows in a grade-Z horror movie.

But as annoying as that might be, her biggest flaw is that she loves creating several different storylines and then revealing that everything is related (and extremely personal), even if the convergence of events makes no sense whatsoever. In her first book, Reichs sacrifices Tempe's best friend (which is a blessing, since the friend is one of the most gratingly awful characters ever created in a work of fiction) in a desperate attempt to make the mystery as personal as possible. In "Du Jour", the role of the lamb goes to Tempe's previously unmentioned sister, who conveniently becomes involved in a series of events spanning from Texas to North Carolina to Canada.

Which is my biggest problem with this book. Tempe is asked to examine the remains of a would-be-saint, then is asked to investigate a torched house where several people (including two infants) were viciously murdered. There's also the body of a woman who was literally fed to the dogs, and when Tempe's on vacation with her niece, the bodies of two other women are found on the remote island she's visiting. Although we don't find out that it's TWO women (instead of a man and a woman) until chapters later, because oh yeah, fake mysteries. The fact that it's two women instead of a man and a woman changes nothing whatsoever, but Reichs idea of suspense is to wait until long after anyone would care to reveal the gender of the second victim.

And oh yeah, every single event is related, from the saint to the tortured babies to the victim of dogs to the remote island corpses. Because that's what passes for logic in this book.

And let's not forget that every fifty pages Tempe is either attacked or has cat bones thrown into her apartment (I kid you not) with the warning that she needs to back away, even though no one ever specifies what exactly she needs to back away from.

This is the second novel I've read by Reichs after reading her debut novel (which was actually worse). And yes, this will be the last novel I'll read by Reichs. She's a fairly good writer as long as you ignore the all-too-frequent flaws. But I'd rather read a book by someone who writes without all the obvious flaws. Thanks anyway. ...more

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Dec 28, 2008 Lightreads rated it did not like it

Shelves: fiction, mystery

Meh. I am once again taken in by the mistaken belief that surely books this popular and well discussed must have something to them, right? People do have a modicum of taste and literary judgment, yes?

Apparently, people have a taste for plots which are entirely held together by a soupy glue of wild coincidence and random chance. A lot of criminal activities and organizations have specific ties to both Charlotte and Quebec, you know. Oh, and it is very common for the various family members and lov ...more

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Mar 31, 2010 Kasia rated it really liked it

The second book in the series was wonderful, somehow it was even better than the first which I found to be a bit long and overly wordy ( yet enjoyable never the less) this left me hungry for more, what better in a continuing story line than a hook line and sinker type of feeling, reading "Death du Jour" made me crave the next book right away. I almost never read a series one after another, I give myself a break because it's always better to crave the next than get stuck in a similar story and fe The second book in the series was wonderful, somehow it was even better than the first which I found to be a bit long and overly wordy ( yet enjoyable never the less) this left me hungry for more, what better in a continuing story line than a hook line and sinker type of feeling, reading "Death du Jour" made me crave the next book right away. I almost never read a series one after another, I give myself a break because it's always better to crave the next than get stuck in a similar story and feel like I'm reading an eight hundred page book. That said I can't recommend Kathy Reichs enough, she knows what she's talking about and she engages the reader rather than making me feel like I'm standing on the site and observing, I couldn't wait for a free moment to sit and read, on the train, during lunch, before bed, you get the gist...

Its winter time and Temperance finds herself working on a misplaced nun coffin, along the way she gets called to examine the victims of a fire, this of course is no ordinary accident, what fire victims after all have execution style bullet wounds in their head? Clues from her work place and a nearby university reveal that something foul is going on, as usual Tempe gets mixed up into a situation that puts her life in danger, her character is so well written that the reader feels her victories and her falls with great flair. I loved solving the mystery alongside of her, tracking strange disappearances and wondering what happened to the mutilated bodies, traveling and picking up clues and forming opinions of a bunch of zany characters, for those who love gristly deaths, mystery, clues, realistic characters and engaging dialogue this is a real treasure, I hope this series has thirty books in it by the time she's done because deep down I want to read them all. I liked the realistic element of danger, in the previous book her close friend meets with a deadly end so you never know when someone is going to exit the story, it keeps you on your toes! I also enjoyed the bit of romance developing, it made things a bit more interesting, and trust me, it's not nauseating, it adds to the depth of the book. This was another nice read from Reichs and I can't wait to dig right back in.

- Kasia S. ...more

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Apr 07, 2010 Fen rated it it was ok

What a disappointment. The first book wasn't fantastic, by any stretch, but it was so much better than this. I guessed every single plot point along the way, except for the ones where information was deliberately kept from the reader. Which brings me to one of my major complaints about this book... it used a lazy writer trick that happens to be a big pet peeve of mine: the character knows information but doesn't share it with the reader. It's something that a writer can sort of get away with if ...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Jessi rated it it was amazing

I absolutely love all of her books!! I own the whole 14 book series of Temperance Brennan & can't wait to own the newest one!! Currently re-reading the whole series for the 2nd time around waiting for the newest edition =) ...more

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Dec 04, 2008 Catten rated it it was amazing

I hate it when someone ruins a movie or a book for me... especially a book, because that's a bigger investment of time and imagination. So I'll tell you a little about Kathy Reichs's Death Du Jour, but I won't ruin it for you.

First, you need to know that this is her second book. Deja Dead from 1997 was a great ride, taking the reader into the world of anthropological forensics and shining a bright light on a murder investigation from a new point of view.

Tempe Brennan is the main character in bot I hate it when someone ruins a movie or a book for me... especially a book, because that's a bigger investment of time and imagination. So I'll tell you a little about Kathy Reichs's Death Du Jour, but I won't ruin it for you.

First, you need to know that this is her second book. Deja Dead from 1997 was a great ride, taking the reader into the world of anthropological forensics and shining a bright light on a murder investigation from a new point of view.

Tempe Brennan is the main character in both books and she mirrors Reichs's own life in a way: Both shuttle between the US and Canada working as forensic anthropologists. The intrigue of a new angle, excellent writing, and a series of distinct voices of the characters make this a tough book to put down.

Reichs takes Tempe into the jaw-clenching cold of a Montreal winter to dig up the bones of a nun. You want to wrap your blanket a little tighter, because the descriptions of the climate and the delicate work of digging for graves is precise and puts the reader right there.

Soon, she's off to a burnt-up house to sort out the remains of the inhabitants. The descriptions are both gruesome and fascinating. She describes the process of putting the pieces together and is just clinical enough for you to feel that you've stepped away from the horror, yet you still have the sense of loss. I look at it as a good way to learn about things second-hand. Reichs is, after all, an expert and a responsible writer.

Tempe's commitments, both personal and professional, keep piling up yet she keeps her sharp sense of humor. This is why I like the character so much. She overextends herself, and then things just keep happening to add to her already full plate. She keeps going while she loses sleep over the nine thousand things going on in her life. She mentions a dream where she has to take an exam but never attended the class. I have that dream. This woman is my personal hero.

She encounters a cult and its odd members, debates with herself about the merits of having or not having a relationship with a homicide detective, and uncovers links between seemingly unrelated events. She even gets a crash course in primate behavior and the nature of insects acting on corpses.

Reichs is very talented. She offers up a great plot and believable characters. The writing is clean and entertaining. Think Patricia Cornwell without the know-it-allness. I mentioned in a previous review that my friend the Lieutenant dislikes Cornwell for that reason. Well, I think he'll dig this book. ...more

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Jan 24, 2014 Carol rated it really liked it

"How does one explain madness?"

This one quote alone explains a bit of my quest to read
Temperance Brennan Novels. I picked up Death Du Jour, the second in the series as sometime long ago I read the first, Deja Dead. I don't quite remember the whole of that story but knew that I wanted to delve more into the life of fictional forensic anthropologist Tempe.

I was excited in 2005 when Fox aired the pilot of Bones. The initial programs based loosely on the real life of Kathy Reichs, just whetted my a ...more

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Nov 02, 2018 Alaina rated it liked it

Shelves: thriller, november-challenge-2018, fiction, mystery, romance, contemporary

Okay, so the audios are good and they keep me interested but ugh, could it be set any farther than DC?

Yeah, I'm still salty about that!

Death du Jour was a pretty good second installment for the Temperance Brennan series. I am secretly, and not so secretly, loving the crap out of Tempy and Ryan! Now.. if he could become Booth mysteriously.. then I would be head over heels for this ship.

Now in this book, Temperance faces another murder mystery. However, that's not the only thing going on in her li ...more

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Mar 05, 2018 Kate rated it liked it

I hate to say that I was disappointed in this book but I really was. I really have loved the other Temperance Brennan books that I've read by Kathy Reichs so I'm hoping the rest of the series is more like the others that I've read. Death du Jour was a predictable slow-burner for me. I also think one of the reasons I wasn't as drawn to it as the others is because it was extremely unrealistic.

I felt like there were 2-3 stories going on in one book and while they all did connect back, they were fa ...more

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Mar 11, 2011 David rated it it was ok

Pop quiz! This book is about:

A. The exhumation of a French nun;
B. Murders that were followed by arson;
C. The disappearance of a college student;
D. The disappearance of the sister of the protagonist;
E. Drug-related murders on an island sanctuary;
F. A sinister cult;
G. It's not about anything. It is just a device for Kathy Reichs to insert her research on entomology, forensic science and cults;
H. All of the above.

If you chose (H) you pass!

I am not through with this book, and surprisingly, I am enj ...more

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Sep 15, 2018 Laura LlamaDragon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

First up I will say I listened to the audio book for Death Du Jour which I believe improved my enjoyment of the second installment in the Temperance Brennan series. The story itself was well paced and full of new information that kept cropping up everywhere which meant that not all of the story took place in Montreal, some took place in Brennan's home state. At times it was a little hard to follow the switches between characters and which murders/bodies they were referring too until there was so ...more

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Oct 10, 2018 Karen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: suspense-mystery-5-star-reads

I read this a long while back and must never have added it. But bummer, I had. I was so hoping I missed one so I could read another. She has not gotten any of this series out for a while because of illness I guess. I am looking forward to when she comes back. she is an author I found at the library many years back: One of the few I devoured in about 2 months and usually do the same with later volumes as soon as I can get them.

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Nov 29, 2012 Bettie rated it it was ok

Shelves: fraudio, series, winter-20122013, mystery-thriller, north-americas, tbr-busting-2012

Warning for Wanda: includes grisly baby killings.

3* Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan #1) 1997
CR Death du Jour (1999)
3* Deadly Decisions (2000)
3* Monday Mourning (2004)
4* Break No Bones (2006)
3* 206 Bones (2009)
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Apr 14, 2019 Dee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, borrowed, detective-or-cop, series, thriller, forensic-anthropologist

Two-haiku review:

Tempe gets saint's bones
Sister visits Montreal
Then bones in SC

Focus is on cults
Tempe's character evolves
Lots of description ...more

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May 08, 2020 Jaksen rated it liked it

I keep a list of series I read. I write info on them detailing what I like and if/why I drop them. I did this to Ms. Reichs after reading Book #1, but then heard such a compelling review of book #2 I bought it. However...

I still don't know about this book, or this series. It's interesting, highly descriptive, with some fairly good characters which I instantly liked. (I like her MC, Temperance Brennan.) But there is SO MUCH DETAIL. Plus, the MC does so many things, is always doing this, that, and I keep a list of series I read. I write info on them detailing what I like and if/why I drop them. I did this to Ms. Reichs after reading Book #1, but then heard such a compelling review of book #2 I bought it. However...

I still don't know about this book, or this series. It's interesting, highly descriptive, with some fairly good characters which I instantly liked. (I like her MC, Temperance Brennan.) But there is SO MUCH DETAIL. Plus, the MC does so many things, is always doing this, that, and ten other things and it's constant, and unending. In this book she digs up a woman (a nun) in an old church who is a candidate for sainthood. This leads to...

A mystery involving (maybe) a cult, and human sacrifice or murder or something (maybe) which Temperance, or Tempe, a physical anthropologist who assists with police investigations gets involved in. But she also teaches, juggles a complex personal life with an ex-husband, daughter and crazy sister, and does at least a dozen or more things EVERY DAY. Correcting papers; giving exams; teaching forensic science; working on skeletal remains - several at a time - and that's just the tip of the TempBrennan iceberg. She's like a wunderfem, if that's a word. It's constant, constant, constant and you wonder when she can take a breath. Every day she has a mental list of a dozen things she MUST do and MUST do NOW.

She flies to North Carolina; she flies back to Montreal. She's in 70+degree weather - no wait, it's like minus-40. (Fahrenheit in the US; up in Canada it's Celsius.) It's a busy, mind-boggling, you had better pay attention read. This is NOT a book you set down on Monday and pick up again on Friday. So I read it straight through, putting aside a Stephen King book (OMG) for Ms. Reichs.

As for the forensics? Complex. The explanation of how to remove a body - or bodies - in varying degrees of putrefaction is almost textbook-detail. And near the end of the book, endless pages of explaining what happened and why. Think infodump-to-the-max. That many readers like this kind of book is obvious. A TV series resulted from the series and multiple best-selling books to follow.

I found it a bit dizzying, though. So many characters. Multiple bodies being dug up. Multiple crimes. Lots of creepy sorts who might be responsible. A daughter to take care of. A crazy sister. A guy who she kind of sort likes. The weather. The environment - from ice storms to alligators, and a lovely cat named Birdie. How does the author keep it all straight?

So three stars for confusion, but even so, I probably will read the next book. ...more

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Apr 24, 2019 Mohammed Sheikh rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: american, thriller

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Death du jour is the second book of Temperence Brennan series. Temperence brennan or tempe brennan is a forensic anthropologist.story start with tempe digging out at an old church and recovering the remaining's of the Nuns back from 18th century. Then tempe gets a call from St-jovite were a young couple and there twin kids were brutally murdered and then set ablaze. When she keeps digging the case she finds that many have gone missing or ...more

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Jan 27, 2018 Mike rated it liked it

Brennan runs into religious zealots, tries to identify a nun who may be declared a saint, and helping her sister avoid a cult.

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Oct 17, 2010 Hannah Ruthie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery, suspense, thriller

I've always enjoyed Bones on TV, so picked up a couple of Kathy Reichs books in a charity shop to see how they compare. I believe that this is book two, but having not read the first did not seem to be a problem at all.

I found this a fascinating read. It includes a myriad of detail about science, anthropology and other interesting input. I wouldn't describe her as a particularly descriptive author (ie, flowing poetic language) but the constant gush of minute trivia keeps the reader engrossed. Th ...more

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Jan 03, 2019 Jammin Jenny rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, mystery, medical, science, zz-2019-books

I really enjoyed this second installment in the Temperance Brennan series. After I got over it not being exactly like the Bones series on tv, I really like the MC Tempe. In this book she goes between Quebec, Canada and Charlotte SC. I loved the island of primates in the book too.

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Nov 17, 2018 Andy rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018-read

Ugh Tempy was so so close to hooking up with Booth/Ryan! Why wouldn't you just let this happen Reichs!?

In this book, we get to meet Tempy's sister. And while I'm still completely floored that her life is 200% different from the TV show character's, I liked seeing that she wasn't alone and was capable of coping with hard events in her life. Harry was a weird character, but the relationship she had with Tempy was interesting. I was super surprised that Tempy didn't guess there was something weird ...more

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Jan 27, 2021 Nat rated it really liked it

In this book, the writing style is so much better than in the 1st book. This book draws you in a lot more. It was occasionally difficult to keep track of names and relationships to one another because there were a lot of victims and a lot of people involved in the cult. However, the book was much better written

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Jan 05, 2019 Lynn rated it liked it

Have never read Kathy Reichs before, but have practically a shelf of her books in my library and one at the crib, so when I had run out of books up there I picked up this from the reserve pile. An enjoyable crime read with enough twists to make it interesting and not too boring with the forensic detail, nice easy read.

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May 18, 2018 Linda rated it liked it · review of another edition

I do get some pleasure from Reichs' Temperance Brennan books--even though there are some problems (for me) with her stories and writing. These books aren't meant to win a Pulitzer Prize; I don't read them as such. And as I keep saying: I read in bed. Each chapter of Reichs' books is a crisp finish or segue to the next chapter, which makes it perfect reading before naps and bedtime. The reading and plot is simplistic and that also makes it easy to read before sleep, as do the very short paragraph ...more

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Sep 05, 2019 Eden Minnis rated it liked it

I'm very torn on how to rate this book. If I read it as a stand alone and not part of the Bones Series, I think I would enjoy it more. There's a few elements in this that mirror that of the first book and whilst it doesn't detract too much from the storyline, it does make it a little easier to guess what may happen.
I still like the style of writing Kathy Reichs uses and Tempe is a character I like as well. Personally, the added scientific detail Reichs goes into is something I enjoy and enforce ...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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