### Amazon.com Review *"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
Death Du Jour: A Novel
β Scribed by Kathy Reichs
- Publisher
- Scribner;Berkley Prime Crime
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0425213501
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β¦ Synopsis
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel D eja Dead--and introduced "[a] brilliant heroine" (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec's director of forensic anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead.
In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention--and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying...
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SUMMARY: "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 th
### Amazon.com Review *"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
Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist digs for a corpse where Sister Γlisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century seems missing. The puzzle surrounding Sister Nicolet's life and death provides a welcome contrast to the discovery of scorched bodies at a burning chalet. Homicide Detective Andr
### Amazon.com Review *"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
Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist digs for a corpse where Sister Γlisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century seems missing. The puzzle surrounding Sister Nicolet's life and death provides a welcome contrast to the discovery of scorched bodies at a burning chalet. Homicide Detective Andr