Death du Jour - Hardcover

Reichs, Kathy

3.96

47,588 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434007366 ISBN 13: 9780434007363

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1999

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The exhumation of a nun and a horrific arson puts Dr Temperance Brennan on the trail of a sinister cult. From the author of "Deja Dead".

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Review:

After one of the more startling crime debuts of recent years, D�j� Dead, Kathy Reichs has found herself, at a stroke, regarded as a possible contender for Patricia Cornwell's crown as queen of forensic detection novels. As the new book opens, her forensic anthropologist heroine Temperance Brennan is doing what she usually does--helping to identify remains about which there is almost nothing suspicious. In this case she is dealing with a 19th-century nun of vast sanctity, for whose beatification her relics and burial site need authenticating. What could be simpler or less menacing? Almost immediately, Tempe is called in on a bad case: arson, which has left remains so damaged that a normal pathologist cannot cope--and the victims that pathologists normally cope with include infants stabbed to death.

Something sinister is going on, and whether in Quebec, where she has her practice, or the sleepy South, where she teaches, Tempe is not safe. Reichs' first book was good on the domesticity and friendship to which Tempe retreats--and this time we meet her younger sister, Harriet, who has just got rid of her balloonist lover and is looking for a new interest. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"People"

An atmospheric, suspensefully paced yarn, one that is likely to leave you with the shivers.

"New York Newsday"

Temperance Brennan is the real thing, that's because her creator, Kathy Reichs, is the real thing.

"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs."

-- "Daily News" (New York)

"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs."

-- "Daily News" (New York)

"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs."

-- "Daily News" (New York)

"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs."
-- "Daily News" (New York)

"Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs."
-- Daily News (New York)

-Atmospheric, suspensefully paced.... a delectable tale of corpus delicti...bone-chilling prime crime.-
-- People

-Brennan is a winner, and so is Reichs.-
-- Daily News (New York)

"Atmospheric, suspensefully paced.... a delectable tale of corpus delicti...bone-chilling prime crime."