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Title	:	Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan #2)
Author	:	Kathy Reichs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	May 2006 by Pocket Star (first published May 18th 1999)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller

Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan #2) Paperback | Pages: 451 pages

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Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie 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 Elisabeth'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? 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 professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island.

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Original Title:	Death du Jour
ISBN:	0671011375 (ISBN13: 9780671011376)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Temperance Brennan #2
Characters:	Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan
Setting:	Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec)(Canada) Charlotte, North Carolina(United States)

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Im really struggling to separate these books from the TV show, though I found that I enjoyed this one more than the first book.Maybe Im starting to get use to this original Temperance...These are the types of books that I normally enjoy, so Im a little disappointed that it hasnt hooked me as much as the show.I reckon Id should give it a sizeable gap between finishing watching all the episodes then returning to theses books at a later date.

I wasnt too convinced after the first one, but glad I continued on with the series because this book was way more entertaining.

This is a series that I won't be pursuing. Almost 20 % into the book and it reads a little like a Standard Operating Procedure for lab work. If you've done any such, save yourself the boredom. The only other mentions is hinting of the title character's all good traits; she's hard-working, honest, virtuous, beautiful, slim, nice, did I mention beautiful?. And she handles pipettes and forensic tools with the same determination and purpose as she prepares her meals and...

Two-haiku review:Tempe gets saint's bonesSister visits MontrealThen bones in SCFocus is on cultsTempe's character evolvesLots of description

What a disappointment. The first book wasn't fantastic, by any stretch, but it was so much better than this. I guessed every single plot point along the way, except for the ones where information was deliberately kept from the reader. Which brings me to one of my major complaints about this book... it used a lazy writer trick that happens to be a big pet peeve of mine: the character knows information but doesn't share it with the reader. It's something that a writer can sort of get away with if

I really enjoyed this second installment in the Temperance Brennan series. After I got over it not being exactly like the Bones series on tv, I really like the MC Tempe. In this book she goes between Quebec, Canada and Charlotte SC. I loved the island of primates in the book too.

Death is on the menu today at your international chain restaurant murder cult. Luckily for crime prevention, you coincidentally happen to live part time in all the locations that possess these sanguine establishments. And because you work a bizillion hours a week you go out to eat a lot.