Death du Jour (novel)
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Death du Jour is the second novel by Kathy Reichs
in the Temperance Brennan
series.
, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun from the grounds of an old church.
Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, and no explanation. Following clues from the charred remains of the inferno along a trail of sinister cult activity to a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her instinct for survival.
Kathy Reichs
Kathleen Joan Toelle "Kathy" Reichs is an American crime writer, forensic anthropologist and academic . She is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but is currently on indefinite leave...
in the Temperance Brennan
Temperance Brennan
Temperance Daesee Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs, and is the hero of her crime novel series . She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997...
series.
Plot summary
On a cold March night in MontrealMontreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun from the grounds of an old church.
Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, and no explanation. Following clues from the charred remains of the inferno along a trail of sinister cult activity to a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe faces a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her instinct for survival.