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Title: Death du Jour
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| Death du Jour by Pocket Star I wish I hadn't seen Bones first! | Fans of the TV show Bones should be warned - it is only loosely based on the characters from the book. I've seen several episodes of the show (and not particularly enjoyed them) and had some problems reconciling what I knew from TV to what the author was telling me in the story. To be honest, I wish I'd never seen the show, I enjoyed the characters in the book far more.
Character differences aside, I thought the book was very well plotted and paced. It draws you in with a small mystery, then leaves you hanging (though the more astute mystery readers will certainly be able to guess, it still makes you read to the end to be completely sure) while it wends its way through a completely separate main storyline. Granted, it's a little predictable. There aren't any of the completely out of the blue shocks or twists. But the writing is solid, the dialogue good, and I enjoyed the characters. Though it's not strictly what most would call a `cozy', the formulaic plot and lack of shock value shoe-horns it into that category for me. Fans of a more nitty-gritty mystery may be assuaged by some of the slightly more graphic descriptions of death, but I doubt it is visceral enough to really appeal. | | Death du Jour by Pocket Star I have to say I'm picky | | I'm not a huge fan of Bones, I like Kathy Reichs, and I love the clinical language used in her books. Unfortunately, I get so hung up on the silliest of details. In this entire audiobook the reader actually mispronounces a word and for about 5 minutes I was stuck on that & had to jump back to listen to what I missed. Otherwise, though I'd rather have the time to read them, this & other audiobooks are great for the busy. | | Death du Jour by Pocket Star Good stuff | | Like all of her other "Bones" novels, this one is another page turner. These books are hard to put down. | | Death du Jour by Pocket Star Another day, another death... | In Death Du Jour, the second Temperance Brennan mystery, Kathy Reichs proves that she's not just a flash in the pan.
Forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, splits her time between Montreal and Charlotte, North Carolina, working with law enforcement and teaching. She's in Montreal when a gruesome discovery is made--three bodies are discovered after an arson fire. But it appears that the victims may have been dead before the fire was set. At the same time, she is helping the Roman Catholic Church identify the bones of a nun who is being proposed for sainthood. In doing some research for the church, she stumbles upon some information that provides clues to the arson. Before assembling all the puzzle pieces, Brennan (with the help of Detective Andrew Ryan) will go from Montreal to Charlotte to Beaufort, South Carolina and back to Montreal.
Reichs provides her readers with an education they won't receive from other authors. In Death Du Jour, she goes into great detail about how the many insects found on a body can be analyzed to discover the time of death. She also gives us a mini-lesson on cults including types, a history of cults, cult leaders, and those who would be attracted to cults.
Reichs' books follow along with Brennan's personal life, and we're introduced to Peter (the husband she's separated from) and her sister, Harry. We also witness the growing attraction between Brennan and the handsome Ryan. Although you don't have to read these books in order, it does help with continuity.
I'm not much of a television watcher, but I may just have to catch Bones, the series that is based on the character of Temperance Brennan.
| | Death du Jour by Pocket Star DEATH DU JOUR | | This book was written much better than her first. When you get towards the middle of the story it was hard to put down. | | Death du Jour by Pocket Star Product Description | | Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Déjà 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 showdown -- a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her skills for survival. | | Death du Jour by Pocket Star Amazon.com | | "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 the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season's dead are not found until the spring melt." 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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