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Death du jour

Pages
451
Published
1999
Language
English

Synopsis

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is called to a frozen Montreal cemetery to exhume a nun who died over a century ago, but the small coffin she finds holds more questions than answers. While she investigates the nun's past, a horrific fire at a remote chalet leaves behind a trail of charred remains and missing children. Tempe must navigate her complicated history with Detective Andrew Ryan as they follow a trail from religious communes to primate colonies to stop a killer.

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About the author

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Kathy Reichs

Dr. Kathleen Joan Reichs (PhD) (née Toelle, born July 7, 1948) is an American crime writer, academic and forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. She is one of only fifty forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. A professor of...

Characters

Temperance BrennanProtagonist
Andrew RyanSupporting
Harriet BrennanSupporting
Elisabeth NicoletSupporting
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