Deadly Decisions is the third novel by Kathy Reichs

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...

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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...

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Plot

Violence is escalating, and spilling on to the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is shot dead, caught in crossfire on her way to ballet class. A teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away.

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan has to pick up the pieces; she knows she shouldn't let emotion get in the way, but when nine-year-old Emily's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react.

An exhumation uncovers the bones of another innocent in a clandestine grave close to a biker gang headquarters. With her boss in hospital and sparring partner Detective Andrew Ryan mysteriously unavailable, Tempe alone begins a perilous investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime...

External links

• Kathy Reichs' page on Deadly Decisions