Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780671577063
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN number: 0671577069
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Quantity: 4
Printing Date: September 01, 1997
Publishing house: Simon & Schuster Audio
Sale Popularity Level: 707044
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio
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It's June in Montreal, and Dr. Temperance Brennan, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend in beautiful Quebec City. First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. The remains are probably old and only of archeological interest, but Tempe must make sure they're not a case for the police. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab. Something about the crime scene is familiar to Tempe: the stashing of the body parts; the meticulous dismemberment. As a pattern continues to emerge, Tempe calls upon all her forensic skills, including bone, tooth/dental, and bitemark analysis and x-ray microflourescence to convince the police that the cases are related and to try to stop the killer before he strikes again. Told with lacerating authenticity and passion, 'Déjà Dead' is both poignant and terrifying as it hurtles toward its breathtaking conclusion and instantly catapults Kathy Reich into the top ranks of crime authors.
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It's been quite the year for Dr. Temperance Brennan. She's gone from married to divorced, from North Carolina to Quebec, but the only thing that has stayed the same is her career. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist and she is very, very good at it. However, she is not a detective and when she is called to look upon skeletal remains found in a garbage bag, her desire to do more than just her job comes out in full force. Facing a very puzzling case and animosity from one of the lead investigators, she's pretty sure that things are about as bad as they are going to get. And when her best friend begins acting strangely she's not sure what to make of it. Gabby is doing a study of Quebec's streetwalkers and is very frightened of someone she has meet during her interviews. Could the killings and Gabby's stalker be connected? And what happens when the killer targets Tempe herself?
This is the very beginning of Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan series. And it is well worth it to read. Fans of forensic anthropology, mysteries, and forensic will love this. And of course, fans of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series. Temperance is very different from Kay, but they both strike the same smart, capable female chord.
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I'm a fan of the tv show Bones, and have had this series recommended to me numerous times, so I was looking forward to this book! I already knew that the tv show was only loosely based on the books, so I wasn't surprised when I found out the book Tempe was older than the tv one, and that there is no Booth. Still, my knowledge of the show created a sort of disconnect for me, and I found myself reading this as though the book Tempe was an older version of the tv Tempe.
All of that aside, I did enjoy this, though I didn't fall in love with it. It took me a while to warm up to Tempe, though I enjoyed the emotion she showed that the tv Tempe is often missing. There's a lot of detail in this book so it's not for the squeamish, but the plot is solid and keeps you guessing right up to the very end. It's definitely a series I will read more of.
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Haven't had time to read it yet, but my husband (who is visually impaired listened to it, and what I heard was very good).
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I've read several of Kathy Reichs'Temperance Brennan novels (out of order of course) and I wanted to go back and read the very first in the series. Had this been the very first of the Brennan novels I read, I probably would have been willing to give others a try. This book was okay, but Kathy Reichs does much better as the series progresses. I saw where another reviewer did not like the use of one word sentences. I honestly loved the technique. It was short and got the point across without going into boring statements. Which of these is better?: "Could be" Ryan or "Could be" Ryan said. That's just a matter of taste and I thought it gave the novel(s) kind of that Dragnet dimension. Anyway, this novel seemed kind of hard to follow for me as Tempe was (and she does in other novels) putting herself into situations that were dangerous and dealing with a large number of characters I couldn't keep track of. Would a real person go to these places knowing what kind of dangers lurk there? Why was she the best investigator working a serial killer case? Why can't the police put clues together? The characters seemed consistent and were people you could care about one way or another. Claudel was a jerk, sure, but even he mellowed. If you've read the other Brennan novels but not this one, you should read it just so you haven't missed anything. If you want to read the whole series, you should read this one and go from there but don't quit after this one because they do get much better. If you're looking for a stand alone novel to read and have no interest in the series, I might pass on this one. If you're going to read it because you like the TV show "BONES' well, maybe that's not such a good idea. The Brennan in the television show is a lot mour low key than this one, although they both could use some social skills classes. Finally, I want to comment on the ending: This was a let down, right out of a Lifetime movie or a made for Sci-Fi movie or just about any other movie/TV show where the hero or heroine was in a desparate situation and an item that would save him or her was handy and just within fingertip reach. After 500 pages I think the reader deserves a little more imaginative ending than that. 3 stars.
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A friend of mine recommended this series, since she likes the TV show, so I decided to give the very first book a try - I was terribly disappointed. First of all, I cannot believe that so many amazon reviews were highly positive about the book - does anyone recognize bad writing or storytelling any more or is it enough for them that a book made it to TV?
The writing is so bad, I was barely able to finish the book - constant comparisons - like this, like that etc. - if she would stop doing this, the book would only be half as long. She also is very fond of one-word sentences, which are ok now and then, but - Get. Boring. After. A. While. Also, she tries to sound so smart, by throwing in French expressions all the time and then translating them for her uneducated readers. Just decide if you want to write in French or English - we all know that Canada is bilingual!
The story is incredibly stupid and most of the characters behave like idiots. She uses every klichee in the book - does she really want to make us believe that every policeman uses expletives of the worst kind in each and every sentence? Why are policemen always described as chauvinists - but then in the end they come around and acknowledge the heroine (after saving her life, of course, because after all she cannot take care of herself). Why does the police not follow up on the clues - a cross on a map and nobody wants to check on it? Except, of course, out heroine, who decides to go out in the middle of the night, in a storm, with a defective flashlight, to try to find a buried body. Why does nobody care about her daughter being on the killers list of victims and why does her mother not tell the police that her daughter is actually on her way to visit her? No, instead she just sits there, with a "knot in her stomach', waiting for the killer to show up at her apartment.
And why can I not find any good mystery novels any more?
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