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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  cyderry | Dec 14, 2009 |  This is the follow-up to the author's debut novel, Deja Dead. We meet Tempe Brennan again, although this time she's chasing a cult leader rather than a serial killer. The pacing is better than the previous novel, and a character death really hits home. Reichs doesn't hold back on the scientific details, and this time we're also treated to lots of dialogue between academics, since she spends more time on university campuses than at police headquarters. Brennan's conversation with an entomologist gets rather... specific. I won't go into detail here, but if you're curious, then either read this book or Google the term "cheese skipper." (  ) catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 | Tempe Brennan faces off against cultists and her sister faces danger. Also, she unearths and examines a nun who is up for sainthood. A good entry in the series, solid, love the characters. (  ) bookwormteri | Nov 16, 2009 | Another excellent tale from Kathy Reichs. Tempe gets involved in murders with connections both in Quebec and Carolina. A cult group is investigated and although on the surface they seem fairly benign, all is not what it seems when Ryan and Tempe discover that people the group don't approve of have a habit of disappearing. Both Ryan and Tempe find themselves in danger as they confront the group. As a sub-plot (but no less interesting) Tempe has dug some old bones up for the Church as they wish to make the owner of the bones a saint. Again, all is not as it seems and brings a shock to the Quebecan nuns. (  ) Violetta | Aug 5, 2009 | I was so excited when I found out that the television show Bones, is based off a book series. Death Du Jour was the first of the several Kathy Reichs novels that I've read, and I really enjoyed it. I am such a big fan of the show Bones which is based off Reich's life. The book is really exciting, and it has so many twists and turns. It's the kind of book that has you on the edge of your seat and checking over your shoulder the entire time. I can't wait to read more of Reichs' novels. xobrunetzrmorfun | Apr 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Readers of Kathy Reichs's cool and clever first forensic thriller Déjà Dead 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. --Dick Adler
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Tempe takes on a private excavation of a convent cemetery to identify the remains a nun that is being submitted for canonization during the slow time of a Canadian winter. Not expecting the Great Quebec Ice Storm of 1998 – the ice and cold preserve crime scenes, but hamper investigations.
Unfortunately, the discovery of 6 bodies including 2 babies during the investigation of a fire interrupts her private work and threatens her academic schedule. Returning to UNC in Charlotte, NC Temperance encounters other mysterious deaths that lead her to some unusual circumstances and mysterious adventures.
How all the pieces are woven together so intricately is amazing and yet holds the reader spellbound. Definitely a great series to be followed. (