Deja Dead: A Novel (Google eBook)

Kathy Reichs

Simon and Schuster, May 28, 1999 - Fiction - 416 pages

The raves are in -- from Edgar-winning authors and internationally acclaimed forensic experts: Kathy Reichs and Déjà Dead are something special.

Rarely has a debut crime novel inspired such widespread excitement. A born storyteller, Dr. Kathy Reichs walks in the steps of her heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan. She spends her days in the autopsy suite, the courtroom, the crime lab, with cops, and at exhumation sites. Often her long days turn into harrowing nights.

It's June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend.

First, though, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. One look at the decomposed and decapitated corpse, stored neatly in plastic bags, tells her she'll spend the weekend in the crime lab. This is homicide of the worst kind. To begin to find some answers, Tempe must first identify the victim. Who is this person with the reddish hair and a small bone structure?

What people are saying

Review: Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan #1)

User Review  - Rosario (http://rosario.blogspot.com/) - Goodreads

Déjà Dead starts the well-known series focused on forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. It's especially well-known, I guess, because the TV series Bones is based on it (from all reports ...

Review: Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan #1)

User Review  - Rivka - Goodreads

As with the Bourne Trilogy, the writers of the television series Bones basically took the name and job of the main character and created a totally different character and story line. While this seems ...

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Popular passages

Page 23 - A human face stared out at me. Sealed off from the insects that hasten decomposition, the flesh had not fully rotted. But heat and moisture had altered the features, converting them into a death mask bearing scant resemblance to the person it had been. Two eyes, shriveled and constricted, peered out from under half-closed lids.‎

Page 23 - held was heavy, and I had little doubt what that would be. And I was right.‎

Page 9 - Finally, on a more personal note, I want to thank the members of my family‎

About the author

Kathy Reichs, like her character Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and for the province of Quebec. A professor in the department of anthropology at the UNC at Charlotte, she is one of only eighty-eight forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, is past Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deja Dead: A Novel; Book 1 of Temperance Brennan Series
• Author: Kathy Reichs
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1999
• ISBN: 0684839067, 9780684839066
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General