Monday Mourning
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Monday Mourning is the seventh novel by Kathy Reichs
featuring the fictional forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan
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The building is old, with a colourful past, and homicide detective Luc Claudel dismisses the remains as historic. Not his case, not his concern...
But forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has her doubts. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. A cold case, but Claudel's case nonetheless.
Brennan is in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a trial. Digging up more bones was not on her agenda. And to make matters worse, her sometime-lover Detective Andrew Ryan disappeared just as Tempe is beginning to trust him.
Soon Tempe finds herself drawn even deeper into a web of evil from which there may be no escape: three women have disappeared, never to return. And Tempe may be next...
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...
featuring the fictional forensic anthropologist, 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...
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Plot
Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour.The building is old, with a colourful past, and homicide detective Luc Claudel dismisses the remains as historic. Not his case, not his concern...
But forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has her doubts. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. A cold case, but Claudel's case nonetheless.
Brennan is in Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a trial. Digging up more bones was not on her agenda. And to make matters worse, her sometime-lover Detective Andrew Ryan disappeared just as Tempe is beginning to trust him.
Soon Tempe finds herself drawn even deeper into a web of evil from which there may be no escape: three women have disappeared, never to return. And Tempe may be next...