Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (USA 2020)

From the Publisher:
When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions -- and danger -- forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this "triumphant second appearance" (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC in Charleston, South Carolina.

When she stumbles upon a recent skeleton among the ancient bones, she starts asking questions. She's the expert they might have called in, but lucky for the police she's already there. The skeleton leads her to a free street clinic where patients have begun to go missing, and some have wound up dead. What is going on and who is to blame? The charismatic televangelist who oversees the clinic? The shady doctor who practices there? Or is it the clinic staff?

Ryan is in Montreal, though he may come down for a visit. If he does, Tempe will have to juggle him and Detective Galiano, an old flame, who is in town investigating the disappearance of a wealthy young woman. This is a phenomenally high stakes business where one dead body can save a couple of lives, maybe more. Along with the corpses, Tempe investigates the sick moral logic of the mastermind behind the operation.

Kathy Reichs has returned Tempe to America and put her in the middle of a sinister trafficking ring that's local and global. The suspense is intense, and the world is riveting. Kathy Reichs's books are expert and smart with a taut energy, and this is her best plot and writing yet.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour. A Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781982149017 (March, 2020), 453 p., $9.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (UK 2011)

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'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?'
On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church.

Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation.

From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity and 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: Death du jour. Another day. Another death. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099556527 (July, 2011), 464 p., £7.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?'
On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthroplogist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainhood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity and 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: Death du jour. Another day. Another death. Arrow, ISBN: 0099255197 (March, 2005), 436 p., £6.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
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.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671011375 (August, 2000), 480 p., $7.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?'
On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthroplogist Dr Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainhood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness, no motive, no explanation. From the charred remains of the inferno, to a trail of sinister cult activity and 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: Death du jour. Another day. Another death. Arrow, ISBN: 0099255197 (April, 2000), 436 p., £5.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
'Another day. Another death. Death du Jour.
My God how many such days?'
March in Montreal: It is a bitterly cold night and in the grounds of an abandoned convent forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the remains of ?lisabeth Nicolet, a nun who died in 1888 and is now proposed for possible sainthood. But the body has been moved to an unmarked grave in a far corner of the cemetery. Why have the nun's remains been disturbed? And what will Tempe discover when the frozen ground finally yields to her tools?

As St Patrick's Day approaches, Tempe is called to the scene of an horrific arson: a young family has perished in mysterious circumstances. From the charred remains of the arson, to a trail of sinister cult activity in South Carolina and a terrifying showdown during an ice storm, Tempe gathers her evidence.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour. William Heinemann, ISBN: 0434007366 (June, 1999), 436 p., £15.99.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Rarely has a first-time novelist made such a spectacular international publishing debut as Kathy Reichs did with her acclaimed forensic thriller Dej? Dead. A New York Times bestseller, a number one bestseller in both Canada and Britain, and winner of the prestigious Ellis Award for Best First Novel of 1997, it was also a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, with foreign rights sold to nineteen countries.

Now, in Death du Jour, the author who lives the life she writes about extends her reach while still building on the rich ensemble cast, page-turning suspense, and cutting-edge forensic detail that made D?j? Dead an international sensation.

Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister ?lisabeth Nicolet, dead for over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should be lying in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate.

The puzzle surrounding Sister ?lisabeth Nicolet's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? And where are the children?

Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial sociologist, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island. Tempe is overwhelmed by the case, confused by her mounting attraction to Ryan, and plagued by worries about her sister Harry's search for spiritual awakening.

Featuring the kind of forensic detail that only Kathy Reichs can provide -- from skeletal reconstruction to insect analysis -- Death du Jour takes the reader on a riveting journey from the morgue to the lab to the crime scene, from the warmth of a barrier island to the frigid cold of a deadly ice storm. With this poignant and powerful work, Kathy Reichs confirms her status as a brilliant new crime-writing star.

Kathy Reichs: Death du jour. Scribner's, ISBN: 0684841185 (May, 1999), 379 p., $25.00.