09 January 2012

Book Review: Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs


This is a well written novel by Kathy Reichs and the second in the Temperance Brennan series, the anthropologist who splits her working time between Quebec and the USA. This novel opens with Temperance working on the remains of a nun buried in 1888, who may be made a saint. Brennan does not consider that the nun died naturally.

The second thread of the novel concerns an arson case and the reader is taken seamlessly from one case to the other as the twin plots unfold. Further mysteries are added including the disappearance of a student as well as the introduction of Temperance's enigmatic sister Harry.

I could not put this novel down and I also enjoyed being with the same character again from the first novel. New people are introduced to us too at this time that will come back and reappear in future novels too.

Enjoyed this and 8/10 for me.

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