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.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 4/5
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Language - 4/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 2/5
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Summary
A Temperance Brennan novel) This was a pretty good book, and a fast read. Dr. Brennan is studying the bones of a nun who is proposed for sainthood and discovers something strange. Meanwhile, a family is found burned to death in their home, and Dr. Brennan rules it a homicide. More bodies turn up and Dr. Brennan assists with the investigation and turns up evidence of a possible doomsday cult. Her sister also plays a role in the book. I enjoyed this book!
Violence-Descriptions of murder scenes/victims, autopsies, etc.
Language-Cursing throughout the book in conversation, does not dominate book
Sexual-Little or no sexual references
Drug & Alcohol-Some drinking/drug use, not much